RE: FLASH: Filter/plugins for Flash 5?

[Brack, Jeremy]

Thanks for the quick reply.  I really think it would be a great wish-list

item to have vector filter plugins for Flash 6.


The ability to have anyone make their own vector filters and share them in a

place like flashkit.com would be really great.


Jeremy Brack


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



At 2:32 PM 10/16/0, Brack, Jeremy wrote:

> I am referring to pure vector based filters, such as Kais Vector

> Effects for Adobe Illustrator. Can such a vector based filter

> be built for Flash 5?


The Player isn't extensible, although some type of realtime distortion

would be a good request for the wishlist, thanks.


Although the authoring tool isn't extensible via platform-specific code, we

can certainly get the same *effect*, by distorting the lines in any

PostScript-style tool. For instance, the FishEye, Roughen, Perspective and

other effects in FreeHand come across to SWF easily. This is a two-step

process, true, but can achieve the desired effect today.


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.


One request: If you bring in a distorted vector drawing from a

desktop-publishing application, then please be sure to optimize its curves

in Macromedia Flash itself. Many distortion effects add many, many points

to curves. FreeHand minimizes this and its SWF export has some

curve-optimization, but Macromedia Flash itself is the champ at optimizing

curves for web delivery... a little tweaking here can pay off big in

download time, thanks.


jd


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