RE: FLASH: Getting vector 3d logo rotations into Flash

[pete clark]

Stephen,


The general consensus is that Matinee rendered the individual frames of

their logo spinning in 3D Studio Max, imported them into flash and then

traced them by hand, using Flash generated gradients. There is practically

no good way to get around it.  there is a good tutorial on this method at

http://www.manoone.com .


You can also try with Adobe Dimensions which lets you do some limited

modeling and then export the file as an AI or EPS. However, the files that

Dimensions generates are not good to import directly into flash. What I did

is I opened them in Illustrator, deleted all the gradients, duplicate lines,

and anything else until all that was left was an outline of the object.

Then take the lines you have left and turn it into a compound line.  Save it

as something else.  Then import BOTH sequences into Flash, align them to

each other and use the old sequence as a guideline to fill in the gradients

for each frame. Then delete the old sequence. This method is basically the

same as the hand-trace method, I just used Illustrator to create the

outlines for me.


What I made was a spinning letter N, 36 frames.  When I imported the

sequence directly from Dimensions the file size was around 75K, way to big.

Once I put the frames through Illustrator and then recreated the gradients

in Flash, the size dropped to about 16K, and it looked much better.


If you would like to compare the two:

http://www.noramdigitalmedia.com/n2/3dnsample.htm   75K

http://www.noramdigitalmedia.com/n2/3dnsample2.htm  16K


Hope this helps!


pete clark

noram digital media :: a new media firm

petenoramdigitalmedia [dot] com

http://www.noramdigitalmedia.com


>> Hi

>>

>> Does anyone know how to export 3d object rotations into flash as vectors?

>> I'm thinking of the Matinee logo featured on the

>> www.matinee.co.uk site. The

>> site credits suggest that the rotating objects were all created

>> in 3dStudio

>> Max and then somehow ported over into to Flash.

>>

>> Can anyone help? This one's had me beat for ages.

>>

>> Stephen Duck.



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