FLASH: Flash and Transparent Images

[Ben Hemming]

Hi there,

I'm currently in the process of ripping frames out of avis and anim gifs and

trying to move them into flash (via photoshop for some cleaning up, and

whatever other tools I need to rip the images from the avis/gifs to start

with)


The idea is that these frames (say 3 or 4 frames making up a little

animation)will then be combined with true flash animation on other layers

(for example a few frames of a person jiggling on a layer (from the images)

who will then be snared and pulled offscreen by a tenticle. Pretty simple

stuff, heres the problem:


the images do not trace (bitmap) well and thus I'd like to keep them as

bitmaps (saved as jpgs when flash exports them) however although flash does

support the importation of formats that support transparency/alpha

channeling (gif and png) it doesn't impliment it.


So all my images are simply inside big boxs of backdrop, dispite the

backdrop being invisible normally for those image formats.


(I am not explaining this well or consisely, I apologise..)


Am I mistaken or is there no easy solution here.. am I simpluy going to have

to trace the images so I can have objects on other layers going behind the

complex (ie non rectangular) objects?


Help!


Ben.


Ben Hemming ----- Multimedia Designer ----- Ph 9344 9395 -----

benhmelbourneit [dot] com [dot] au

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