RE: FLASH: JDowdell: Filter/plugins for Flash 5?

[Daniel Gray]

John wrote:


> Sidenote: Third-party vector plugins have had a dicey history, and most

> have left the market... the only one I know offhand that's left is HotDoor,

> which mostly supplies catch-up-to-FreeHand effects for Illustrator. The

> main range of vector-distortion filters seem to be within the main drawing

> apps themselves these days, rather than as third-party plugins.


er, yup.  Vector plugs never *really* caught fire.


As far as the catch-up to FreeHand thing, FreeHand was playing catch up

to CorelDRAW at the time the Illustrator plug-ins came to light.  Draw

was among the first of the drawing apps to cram all that gobbledegook

(like enveloping) into the box.


FWIW, Corel is still selling KPT Vector Effects.  Who knows what they

might do with Bill's money (and without Cowpland).


And ya know, I could've sworn I saw a new vector plug-in back at

MacWorld NYC this past summer ...


Jeremy Brack wrote:


> I guess I was not specific enough in my question...

> I wanted to know if photoshop style filters (not actual photoshop filters),

> could be built for use inside of Flash 5.  Such filters should be vector

> based, like the Kais Vector Effects for Adobe Illustrator...

> basically taking a plain old vector object, like a square, then you apply a

> vector "shatter" filter and then the square is instantly broken into shards

> of glass with different opacity..

> now imagine that "shatter" filter being applied to a group of frames...

> you would be able to animate glass breaking by simply clicking on a filter

> inside of Flash 5.

> and the object you shatter can be anything you want.....

> 

> so lets say you wanted a neat transition from 1 movie to another, you could

> apply the shatter effect to the last frames of movie clip 1, and then

> instead of fading from 1 movie to the next... you click on the screen and

> the movie shatters into tiny bits revealing a new movieclip underneath.

> 

> The shatter filter is only 1 idea..  There are an infinite number of filters

> that would make great vector effects inside of Flash.


Wicked ideas, Jeremy!  It would be wonderful to create optimized vector

effects like this.  


Hmmmm ... time to find some engineers ...


Cheers,

Dan

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