Re: FLASH: perspective tool

[J. Lutes (pixelTwiddler)]

I thought all that was being mentioned was that there was a drawing tool

missing.  The pen tools are going into Flash 5, why not some additional

line/shape deformers?  These transforms (and remember "transform" != "morph

over time") would be applied to static objects prior to being declared as a

file format of _any_ kind.  More authoring/drawing tools, operating on

vector object components would simply be useful.  If you can move a point

with the pen tool in Flash (5), theoretically you can move it with a

perspective tool.


Shape tweening would be a locigal avenue for getting perspective animation

(within the .SWF spec), once the shape was drawn.


You can do perspective transforms, in a one-fell-swoop, using either

Illustrator or Freehand, for later import to Flash.  Photoshop (with paths)

also, for that matter.  Flash is getting there...




>Hmm, sorry, I think this would be difficult to do. If you download the SWF

>4.0 file format specification, then it describes what type of matrix

>operations are available:

>...//SWF_File_Format_Docs/BasicTypes.html#h3MatrixValues

>

>There's translation and scaling in X and Y, and some skewing, but we don't

>seem to have perspective transforms or 4-point transforms ("quads") in the

>file format itself. From my understanding, this would imply that a

>perspective transform would have to be described as a new symbol.  Might as

>well use FreeHand to create multiple objects using the same perspective

>system then.

>

>If you're instead trying to animate a perspective transform, then I'd

>likely transform a copy of the art as a reference layer when using

>shape-tweening. This would be more efficient than sending along each step

>of the animation as a new symbol.

>

>

Could you drop a note to wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com, saying that you'd like

>the file format and player to support more types of transforms in the

>future, please? That's one way folks here gauge how people prioritize

>future areas of work, thanks in advance.




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