Re: FLASH: animate line on a curve

[Marc Hoffman]

At 11:21 PM 1/3/99 +1100, you wrote:

>I wanna try and make a line draw itself going around a curve. As in  start

>from nothing and end up as an (incomplete) circle...

>One of the 'dodgy' ways I tried to do it was to have a small piece covering

>the full circle and eventually reveal more. This works but I would rather do

>it another way so i can use it on top of other images.


Hi Kris.


This is what masks are for -- they work only on the layer imediately below.

 Insert a layer above the curve and set its layer property to mask (click

on the square to the right of the layer name to do this). The rest of the

work is similar to what you described, except that the solid-filled area

that defines the mask will _reveal_ rather than _conceal_ the content on

the layer below. Note that the mask is defined by a filled area and that

alpha and gradient aspects to the fill are ignored.



Marc Hoffman

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