Re: [flasher] Break Apart Text-Transform it to something New

[Ken Lanxner]

On 1/26/01 at 10:20 AM,

NYCerinaol [dot] com

 wrote:


> I took a Flash class a little while back and remember learning a

> technique of having text..breaking it apart...and then it turns into

> something else.  Did I explain this clearly enough?  Does anybody know

> what I mean?  I can't remember how to do it!


Flash 4: Type some text on the stage. Exit text mode and select the text

block. Using the Modify menu, Break Apart the text. The text is

converted to an un-grouped shape which you can modify like any other

shape.


One of the things you can now do with the text is "morph" it into

another shape using Shape Tweening. If your text shape is in frame 1,

then create a blank keyframe in, say, frame 20. Put an un-grouped shape

in that frame. Select any frame inbetween and access Frame Properties,

Tweening, Shape Tween. Your text will morph to the new shape. It may not

be pretty. You will need to play with it and use shape hints and the

results may still not be great. One letter will shape tween pretty

nicely into a similar shape (the letter A morphing into a triangle, for

example). But a word or a line of text is quite another thing as you

will discover. 


Ken


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