Re: FLASH: Text Effect help needed... Is this even possible?

[John Dowdell]

At 9:01 AM 8/23/0,

ComposiMoaol [dot] com

 wrote:

> i'll look into it, but just the thought of doing that for every

> character of all of the fonts that i'm going to use just seems

> like a hopeless task... Maybe this could be a Flash6 wish?


For what it's worth, breaking a string apart into individual letters for

animation is one of the things that Adobe's LiveMotion actually does. You

can get their demo and import the SWF to Macromedia Flash. (Don't apply

effects like shadows to it, or certain gradients... we're seeking text or

curves, not pixels.)


I haven't used Wildform SWfX myself yet, but it's on my list of things to

check out, sounds great.


For wishlist items, oddly enough, YES, now is a very good time to say how

Macromedia Flash should change to better meet your needs. Even though the

development team is working on additional versions (trial download,

localized, academic etc), there are folks here who are already prioritizing

for the next work cycle. Items on the wishlist are definitely archived and

tabulated, but voting for what you need *now* is more effective than six

months from now.... ;-)


For text things, it can be helpful to know if you need character-level

animation, word-level animation, phrase-level animation, or block-level

animation... knowing whether it's a positional animation, or distortion

animation, or effect animation could help too... generally, putting a

specific workflow situation into the wishlist can give better matches than

a high-level feature request, because someone else may have a different

idea from a phrase than what you're imagining. Still concisenss is a goal,

and with that in mind I guess my own message here is over-long already....

;-)


Anyway, yes, if there's a change you want, then immediately after a release

is a very good time to log the vote at the wishlist, thanks!!



jd







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