FLASH: trails bug

[Dan Eckam]

I have a Director 7 movie in which I have trails turned on for a sprite,

which is wiped away by a scanning (left-right, top-bottom) circle to reveal

another sprite underneath. Sometimes this works without a hitch, while

sometimes, the erasing action seems to "get ahead of itself", in the sense

that parts of the underlying image (usually the flower in the hair) are

revealed before they are supposed to be -- before the scanner bitmap passes

over them.


Here is a URL which demonstrates this bug. Click the mouse button (anywhere)

to trigger the "scanning" transition. Incidentally, I have seen the same

thing when I imported the movie into Director 8. The behavior is the same

inside Director as in a browser.


http://www.eyephonic.com/fbitest5.html


I would appreciate any tips on how to work around this.  Thanks -- Dan


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Dan Eckam                     E Y E P H O N I C

daneyephonic [dot] com

512.479.7393 voice            http://www.eyephonic.com

512.479.0881 fax



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