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| Subject: | RE: FLASH: set color property |
| From: | Jon Williams |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:48:44 +0100 |
They're nested because you can't do this with
overlays. You can't do it with overlays because
with overlays, Flash uses the topmost layer as
the "tint" and then adds up all the "brightnesses"
of the layers below and figures out what color
to make, so if you add 50% each of red, green, blue
and red is on top, you end up with a red tint,
when you ought to end up with a grey tint.
This sucks. This should change. Macromedia?
The nesting technique works because using this
particular special tween, you can affect just
one tint property of the original movie clip.
And since you're nesting the mc's, you're manipuling
a clip that contains another movie clip which you
are also manipulating a tint property on...
3 levels deep.
(ok ok, I don't really understand why it works
either...it's just a clever workaround really)
There are all sorts of nifty effects we could do
with flash if Macromedia would give us more mathematical
control over how flash decides to "add" up it's layers.
Oh wait...they want me to buy director too. nevermind.
-jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Helen
Jon Williams wrote:
>
> open source .fla at
> http://www.shovemedia.com/ff/color.html
>
Thanks, Jon. Never knew tweens were so mathematically precise, but it
makes sense -- divide 255 frames by 255 colors and you get the right
level on each one. I'm still scratching my head a bit over why the mc's
are nested, though...
Eric, you should add this to your tutorial page, if open source fla's
count as tutorials (but what better way to learn is there?)
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