RE: FLASH: awesome praystation text effect - any clues?

[Tim Allan]

I got to agree with that. I was working on a text scroller, which Branden

helped me out with, and saw the same thing on pray station about 3 days

after he helped me with it. Thats not to say, the idea was stolen or

anything..just that it was unfortunate that praystation happened to think of

it (and mot importantly execute it) a few days before I did.


-----Original Message-----

From: Michael Dunn [

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Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2000 6:06 AM

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Subject: Re: FLASH: awesome praystation text effect - any clues?



Apparently very badly. I set it up where the mc "drag" gets the x,y coords.

This is set as "b" the item's location is set as "a1" by comparing these two

with a lot of variables, I got all the values I needed to tell how big to

make it and how to set the transparency. This is a very hack way of doing

things, and wouldn't work with an array (it ran TOO slow). The way it is now

I have to hard code for each instance (changing a1 to a2 to a3 etc so the

code is eleven times long as what you see below.


I have to admit though, I was a little sad to see this picked up by others

so quickly. I was disillusioned into thinking it was unique to my site (I

set it up at the beginning of March). Oh, well. Only goes to show that

there's nothing new under the sun. (Yes, I know this effect has been done

before, but at least I thought it was unique to the Flash world). How long

before this becomes as overused as the sliding menu?


Anyway, I'm interested in fixing my lame code below to be much tighter and

effective than it currently is. The one at Praystation looks to be pretty

clean.



Set Variable: "x" = GetProperty ( "_level3/drag", _x )

If (x > 270 and x < 385)

      Set Variable: "a1" = GetProperty ("/item1", _y )

      Set Variable: "b" = GetProperty ( "_level3/drag", _y )

      Set Variable: "c1" = int(a1-b)

      If (c1<1)

            Set Variable: "c1" = c1*-1

      End If

      If (c1>150)

            Set Variable: "c1" = 150

      End If

      Set Variable: "d1" = 150-c1

      If (d1<1)

            Set Variable: "d1" = 1

      End If

      Set Variable: "e1" = d1*(d1/80)

      If (e1<100)

            Set Variable: "e1" = 100

      End If

      Set Property ("/item1", Y Scale) = e1

      Set Property ("/item1", X Scale) = e1

      If (c1<8)

            Set Variable: "f1" = 100

      Else

            Set Variable: "f1" = 80-int(c1*.5)

      End If

      If (f1<50)

            Set Variable: "f1" = 50

      End If

      Set Property ("/item1", Alpha) = f1

Else


      Set Property ("/item1", Y Scale) = 100

      Set Property ("/item1", X Scale) = 100

      Set Property ("/item1", Alpha) = 50

End If



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