RE: FLASH: tracing 3D shapes and recreating gradient fills

[Kevin Jackson]

Dave---

Well I'm no John Croteau but I may be able to help here having imported

hundreds of graphics and tracing them in the last week.

First of all interesting question :-)

Could I check on my method for creating a spinning 3D letter "K" in Flash

please?


You then said:

For each, I select it, choose Modify - Trace Bitmap and accept the defaults.


I'd experiment here. I have tried most of the settings and found wildly

different results and file sizes. For example pixels was twice as large as

Tight and Normal in my tests and they all looked quite different. Since

Tight and Normal came out the same size in my test it was easy to choose the

one that looked the best. Usually there is a tradeoff in size for quality

but I didn't find it so.


I then click within the shape using the paint bucket tool until the entire

fill is white.

NO, run away, run away. Just click on the fill and delete it. You're wasting

space on the areas you won't fill and are adding extra work for those you

do.


I am not sure how to recreate the gradient effects within the outline. There

are several distinct areas of differing gradient effects within the letter -

how do I demarcate these, or should they already be there at this stage?

If you are using standard gradients you can just fill. If you need to make

further breakdowns, I'd group the original item and then draw lines for the

subsections (but that's just off the top of my head I haven't done it in

Flash) There may be a better way


Hope that helps


Kevin Jackson

Triskelian Design

kjacksontriskelian [dot] com

630/717-9090





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