Re: FLASH: How did Kimble do that?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 09:39 AM 6/30/99 -0700, you wrote:

>I was visiting the site:  http://www.kimble.org/  and I was wondering if

>anyone knows of a URL or can give me any information on how the blue mouse

>trail on his loading page is done.

>

>Thanks.

>

>DAA


make a movie clip that's blank in the first frame, with a stop action.  Put

an invisible button over it (one that has a rectangular hit area but no

content in the Up, Over, or Down frames). Give the button the actions On

Mouse Rollover Play, On Mouse Rollout Play.  In the following frames of the

movie clip, create an expanding circular gradient such as the effect you

see at Kimball, or whatever effect you like.


Take this movie clip and blanket the stage with it so that the hit areas of

the buttons tile the stage.


When the user mouses over any movie clip, the effect will play. Complex

effects will slow down playback.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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