Re: FLASH: Text Perspective

[John Dowdell]

At 11:35 AM 10/10/0, Maurice Pelletier wrote:

> Is it possible to creat an editable text field that has perspective?

> For instance something like the Star Wars movie opening with the

> text flying through space.


Sorry, no, that type of four-point distortion is hard... it's available for

bitmaps and editable internal text in the larger Shockwave Player (see

"quad"), but in the tiny footprint of the Macromedia Flash Player our

transforms are limited to XY location, XY scaling and Z rotation, sorry.


You could always set the text in FreeHand, drop it on a Perspective Plane,

and then "Convert to Curves" before exporting to SWF... this would give you

a static representation of perspective text. Editable text at runtime is a

different story, though, sorry.


jd





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