Re: FLASH: StarWars Scroll

[Philip Likens]

>Here's a "fake gradient mask" trick Byron Canfield (formerly on this list)

>posted. I think I referred to this yesterday but you may have missed it.

>

>Let's say you want to have text that scrolls from the bottom of the screen

>and gets smaller and has a gradient fade as it reaches the top. Choose your

>gradient and create it in a rectangle that covers the scrolling area for

>the text, making it fade toward the top.  Now place your scrolling text in

>the layer above, and make IT the mask.  As the text scrolls, it acts as a

>mask, revealing the gradient on the layer below.

>

>To get the 3D perspective, you will need to create the text in another

>program (I agree with other suggestions here to create it in a vector

>program such as Freehand or Illustrator), so it has a true vanishing point

>(perspective). Then you will need to tween it so that it not only moves

>upward but also scales smaller as it moves.   At the end of the tween, the

>text should be scaled so that the width of any line is the same as the

>width of the line that occupied the same place on screen when the tween

>started.  You can most easily match this up by using onion skinning.


barn was on this list????  wow.....i'm sorry i missed him, he's back

posting on the flashpad though.....hmmm.....he's cool...too bad he's not

still here.  maybe i can get him to come back....what happened to make him

leave?


later,

Philip Likens

-newbie moderator @ flasher.net

-graphical media & web "sight" designer

www.sightdesigner.com


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