Re: FLASH: Stretching lines

[Jon Williams]

josh has a fla download i think tucked away

at praystation.com


The technique uses an mc which has two frames.

In frame one there's a 45 degree line which stretches

from the upperleft to the lower right, and

in the second frame a line which stretches from

upper right to lower left.


from there, it's all math and actionscript.

(and relatively easy math at that)


You can set the height and width on this clip to get all the other angles

you need (just try it and see), and position it to achieve the proper

delta x and delta y. duplicate the clip to get multiple lines. etc etc


make sense?


-jon


Scott Jeppesen wrote:


> I've seen an effect where when you drag a button a line that is attatched to

> it "stretches" and basically follows the button around. How is this done?

>

> One example is(I think everyone has already seen it but):

> http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/mar-00/mar-00.html

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