RE: FLASH: smooth color fades in a mc?

[Matt Perkins]

it's a 15x15 pixel square with 100% alpha.  i just don't think the special

effect can give a good color fade.  i set it up using a bunch of alphas and

the blend is really smooth, but like you know, SLOW when i animate it.


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Subject: Re: FLASH: smooth color fades in a mc?



At 07:29 PM 5/4/2000 , you wrote:


>i have a movie clip that i want to fade from black > blue > purple > red >

>yellow > white.

>i used the special thing but it's a choppy fade, it's sticking to web safe

>or something? is there a way to do this with the special tool or do i have

>to layer a lot of alpha adjustments?


If the movie clip takes up a large portion of the screen, the fades could

be making too much demand on the computer processors (CPU and video).  If

the object is less than 100% alpha, and there's a complex background (such

as a bitmap), that will also add a lot of extra rendering computations to

the effect and may slow things down. Sometimes a faster frame rate will

smooth things out (but not often); sometimes a shorter tween (fewer frames)

will give a better illusion (remember, it's all about illusion, not

photorealism). Using a lot of alpha adjustments will almost certainly slow

things down more. I think your approach is probably the best one. If all

else fails, you may need to rethink the purpose of the effect and find

another effect that accomplishes the same thing with less processing power.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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