Re: FLASH: Alpha Channels Messed up?

[David Gary]

Adam Bruce wrote:


> I noticed two things yesterday, Aftershock doesn't perfectly match the

> HTML background to the movie background if you have a custom color. And

> Secondly, if you set the window mode to "transparent Windowless"  Alpha

> Channels fade to the color of the movie background instead of the HTML

> background causing a "ghosting" effect.

>

> I would show you an example, but I can't FTP through the company

> firewall, and our internal web server is not Internet viewable......

>

> Has anyone else noticed this?  Now it could be because I'm running a 16

> bit display instead of 24 bit..... FWIW though, I noticed too that PNG

> file backgrounds also fade to the color of the original background

> instead of the HTML background when embeded in a Flash movie....

>

> -Adam


Hiya Adam,


Try importing the selected background color of your HTML into graphics

proggy. Save as bmp about 2x2 pix and import

into Flash3, then break apart and use dropper to grab color, then you can

tile the color in Flash to match the HTML.


hth,


-DG-




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