FLASH: Sort OT:Filter/plugins for Flash 5?-one for illustrator

[Dustin Krysak]

KPT Vector effects. Does simple stuff like drop shadows and stuff..... I think metacreations made it...


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

  From: Brack, Jeremy 

  To:

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  Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:49 AM

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



  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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jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com

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  Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:30 PM

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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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