Re: FLASH: Perspective effects on text

[geo]

Hey, I don't know about you but with patience(!:) you can do it in

Freehand - copy and pasting then breaking up and some

re-colouring/line/filling (!!) - it can depend on what text u use + whether

the txt is converted to paths.


Geo - "it takes time to create good effects = good work"


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

From: "Seth Newton" <

newton_sethkeithley [dot] com

>

To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:58 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Perspective effects on text



> 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" <rungerzaxcoms [dot] com>

>

To: <flasherchinwag [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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