Re: FLASH:Psuedo 3D effect question + F5 wish

[Randy Kato]

Thanks Victor, but that's exactly the method I said we're familiar with (use it

fairly often). I'm curious about Gabriel's method which he says is better

because the MC duping into higher levels "takes too much time."


-Randy



Victor Villen wrote:


> To change the z-depth, just Duplicate the movie on a higher level and Remove

> the original...

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From: Randy Kato <rkatobraincraft [dot] com>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 5:23 PM

> Subject: Re: FLASH:Psuedo 3D effect question + F5 wish

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> > Gabriel,

> >

> > Could you please elaborate on your method? We're familiar with

> > duplicating MCs into higher levels to fake Z-sorting, but what clip

> > properties are you swapping to achieve this? ...and what does the sorting

> > loop do?

> >

> > Thanks!

> > Randy

> >

> >

> > gabriel wrote:

> >

> > > you have to swap all your clip properties

> > > to change their order, for the level of clip cant be changed

> > > ( or at least i didn find out how. this is defenitvely a F5 wish)

> > > an other method could be to remove all clips and duplicte them again,

> > > in a different order, but i think this takes too much time

> > >

> > > so you need a sorting loop wich compares all your z values,

> > > there is an example on flashkit with a bubblesort algorithm in it,

> > > but i cant remeber the name of it

> > >

> > > HTH

> > >

> > > _ga

> > >

> > > im just playing around with these things in my spare time at home,

> > > example : http://www.voxangelica.net/spin3d.html

> > > so if you still need more help you can email me

>

> > privatly gabrielvoxangelica [dot] net (mailto:gabrielvoxangelica [dot] net)

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