RE: FLASH: A bitmap wipe transition

[Ash Patrick-CPA016]

Thanks for your help Adam and everyone.  Adam, I think that I had tried

what you described and when I would place that

gradient on the masked layer, even though the one side was at an alpha

of 0%, it still had the sharp edge on it.  Would you happen to have some

sort of

example that you have done where this worked that you could point me to?

Thanks again.



Fletch



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From: Adam Norwood [

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Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 1:02 PM

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Subject: Re: FLASH: A bitmap wipe transition



Fletch,


Here's my suggestion, which is something that worked for me on a couple

of my projects. Assuming that the bitmap is smaller than the whole movie

(ie, it has empty space around it) you can spoof a mask: Make a

rectangle (or circle, or whatever, your call) in a layer above your

bitmap, and use the gradient tool to fill it in so that it goes from

solid white (or whatever your background color might be) on one end to

completely transparent (alpha = 0%) on the other end. Play around with

the size of the rectangle, and the gradient, until your bitmap can be

hidden under the solid white portion of the rectangle. Then you can

animate this rectangle, making it move over the bitmap in such a way

that it appears to be fading in. I've achieved some nice results with

this. 


I know that probably sounded horribly confusing, so please, if you need

me to describe it better, let me know. I think this technique is how

Gabocorp does their opening Welcome paragraph - it looks like they

scroll a blue rectangle down over the text, until it's all revealed.

Could be wrong, though. Be forewarned: this dummy mask technique can

sometimes be obvious on screens at color depths lower than 64k colors...


Let me know if this helps,

AS Norwood


>> -----Original Message-----

>

> From: Ash Patrick-CPA016 [SMTP:CPA016lmpsil02 [dot] comm [dot] mot [dot] com]

>> Sent:	Wednesday, August 26, 1998 3:29 PM

>

> To: 'flashershocker [dot] com'

>> Subject:	FLASH: A bitmap wipe transition

>> 

>> I have a problem and whoever can help that would be great. I am still

>> kinda new at Flash and I am trying to perform a graphics wipe.

>> 

>> I want to have a main Bitmap in the background and then have it

>> gradually wipe away from one side to the other, but I wanted to try

and

>> get the edge of the wipe to be kinda like a fuzzy haze rather than a

>> sharp line. I tried to use a mask layer w\ a gradient as the mask but

>> the edge was still sharp. Any help would be great. And I am sorry if

>> this was discussed before and I missed it.

>> 

>> Thanks in Advance, Fletch


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