RE: FLASH: Textures?

[Chris Jester]

Title: RE: FLASH: Textures?

Yeah, but isn't it still loading it as bitmap? So when you scale you do still lose quality.

Jester

-----Original Message-----
From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com [jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (mailto:jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com)]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:12 PM
To: flashershocker [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: Textures?

At 12:37 PM 7/8/99, Chris Jester wrote:
>I just visited http://www.spookyandthebandit.com/ and on the main page they
>have some form of greenish brown texture. Is this a graphic created in
>something else and imported in? If so how do they get the it to scale so
>well?

[Please cover your ears, 'cause I'm gonna shout...]

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERUTILIZED FEATURES OF FLASH!!!

There, glad I got that off my chest.  ;-)

Every week on this list we see people talking about using big ol' bitmaps,
and tracing bitmaps. Folks, the sweet, *sweet* use of bitmaps in Flash is
as tiling textures! No need to have just flat cartoony art! Any durn shape
at all can be rich with pixelly texture, at very low file size!

Do this right now (yup, I'm being bossy!) in Flash 3 or higher:

1)  Import a small graphic.
2)  Break it apart.
3)  Use the Eyedropper tool on it.

Now you can make shapes that use this as a fill! If you started with a
seamlessly-tiling texture, even one as small as 32 pixels square, your
shapes can now be rich and textured, with a luxurious feel unknown to most
Flash audiences today.

(How to get a seamlessly tiling texture? Some tools make them (Xaos
Terrazzo is beautiful)... Kai's Seamless Welder can blur edges... some
older Photoshop/Painter techniques can make them... for Fireworks there's
an advanced technote in the library. You can use any tiling background GIF
you can use in a browser, and there are even online repositories of
readymade seamlessly tiling textures.)

Look at that gorgeous bumpiness they've got at Spooky! Wouldn't you like
that in *your* pieces too? Please *do* use this technique... it's so, it's
so [sob] *pretty*, you've got to do it, _please_!

j "not usually this emotionally involved" d

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