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Subject: Re: FLASH: Perspective effects on text
From: Seth Newton
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:16:01 +0100

Russel,
I remember asking that question about a month ago, and I didn't get a
reply. Here's what happened when I tried it though.

I first tried to do this in Freehand and export it as a .swf file. When I
opened it up in Flash, it didn't translate properly. The second time, I
tried to create a static picture of the text, and move/scale it on the
screen so it looked like it was fading away in the background. This 'kinda'
worked, but the resulting file size was not anything I wanted. The other
option I did was try to create a text animation (with actionscript) that
animated a line of text at a time, and then have multiple instances of that
code continue until I specified.....

The conclusion I came to was this: 1). I don't have enough time to keep
trying to make this work. and 2). I can make text slant like a forward
slash, but I can't make it slant like a backslash.(And you'd need to do this
to get the 'fade away' look.

So there might be a way to do this, but I couldn't find it, and I spent
about 3 days trying to get it to work(though most of that was because I
didn't know AS very well at that point).....if I was doing it for a cd demo,
I could get it to work just fine, but for web-apps, the file size was too
large. My final solution was to skip that effect, unfortunately.

If you hear anything else, I'd LOVE to hear a valid solution that I have not
yet entertained.

HTH,
-Seth.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell E. Unger" <rungeratzaxcoms [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:07 PM
Subject: FLASH: Perspective effects on text


> Quite sometime ago, I saw people discussing some of the more "star wars"
> types of text effects, and I'm trying to do a little bit of perspective
> distortion on some text in a piece that I'm currently working on.
>
> Can anyone offer a little assistance in how I can do a bit of this
> perspective distortion (left to right, far to near--if you follow my
> meaning)?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Russ
>
>
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