Flash :: [CS3] PLEASE Help With Importing PNGs

Importing .pngs
Hey Ppl

-Interesting problem Im going through.

Ive made some 24bit png's in PS. They import gorgeously into flash. They animate well in the movie I create. However, when I test the movie or when I export it the png gets a strange distortion like its being resized by a pixel in one direction or another.

Ive checked:
-the size of the original, the size of the graphic, the size of the movie and the size of the movie on the stage.
-I removed all elements except for the png in question(it does this to them all)
- the properties of the original graphic and changed the compression to png lossless.
- turned off the jpg compression

...and still it looks great until I test the movie- Im completely stumped now- Any ideas?

cheers,
Adam

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In MX, when I import a PNG, I don't get the prompt. Is there a way I can either turn this feature on or locate this dialog box to initiate on my own?

Any help much appreciated, because I think, by default, that PNG's are flattened. Again, I don't want to do this, I want to have editable objects.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice!

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Hey all. I'm having a problem with a Flash movie I'm working on... I'm trying to import a transparent PNG image so I can create an out-of-focus effect in the movie. Unfortunately, I only have Adobe Photoshop 5.0, which does not come with ImageReady like Photoshop 5.5 and later versions have. So I can't use the "Save for Web" feature, which allows you to set the PNG-24 settings, transparency settings, and so on.

What I have done is set up an Alpha channel in the document for the transparency, and then save it as a normal PNG file. When I import that PNG file into Flash, the transparency works fine but the actual image is much darker than it should be. Does anyone know what this means, and how I can get around this problem?

Thanks in advance
-RobsH66

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Hi there..

I've designed a png logo with transparency, but for some reason, I'm unable of importing it to the project... Flash MX 2004 doesn't give any warning, but it simply doesn't display it neither on the stage nor in the Library...

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What is the rule of thumb with Flash CS3 and importing?

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I can't seem to figure this out. Perhaps somebody can test this on their Mac.

Here's my setup:
Mac G5
Photoshop CS
Flash MX 2004

Create a new file in PS and fill area with the following hex color: 1f2325. Save as PNG and import into Flash. Take a screenshot of the color and open it in PS. The value of the color should still be 1f2325. Unfortunately that is not the case for me. If I create the PNG on a PC, and import it into Flash on a Mac, there is no color shift. I've tried various color profiles for PS including turning it off. Still same problem. Opening the saved PNG in PS still shows the original color (1f2325), but once its in Flash, it shifts. Any ideas?

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hello all--
i imported some png's (text) into flash, and they (forgive me, i can't think of a better term) are really unclear around the edges. i wanted to turn off the anti-alias on the text, and i couldn't find a way to do that in flash. so i just imported from fireworks. any fixes on this?
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My email is: BOBWestPalmBeach@aol.com

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here is the outline of the loader:

and here is the finished loader:

what i want to achieve with this is to get from the first image/frame to the last image/frame as the page loads (using actionscript code). i am aiming for something like this:

as you can see, the shape is being filled in constantly as the page loads. of course, i would have it a lot smoother, but i just made a quick animated gif to explain how i wanted it to look.

i tried doing this myself, using a mask and a few other things, but i couldnt figure out how to make it display properly -- ie. how i explained it above. hopefully someone can help me out!

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I promised I searched before asking this question.

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Here is a snippet of actionscript:

Quote:

bigshirt_mc.loadMovie(bigshirt[p], 1);

And the corresponding XML:

Code:
<bigshirt>landscape/assets/shirt1.png</bigshirt>
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I also have some questions posted in another topic that have gone unanswered in the title "Flash Movie Questions". Would you consider these questions if you have time.

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It previews just fine in Swish Lite (full color), but NOT in the browser.

I can't believe the product doesn't produce color backgrounds using jpg/pngs...maybe I missed something stupid?

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i tried converting each picture (png) into symbols then i got stuck...
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http://skitch.com/madmac66/w6cx/bitmap-properties

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1 - The PNG buttons (on my second page, not doing this on the home page) are showing up jagged. They are images with text created in PS. I have read some fixes but none seem to work. I need the images to be transparent so I can't use a jpg.

2 - When I try to load a swf (attaching AS to the button) it works however it always shows over all my other layers. I have of course sent this layer to the back but I am still having this issue.

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Attach Code

//load dynamic images
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For example the below code. I would like to end up with something like clip1, clip2, etc. so that I can drag them around or such.

Also, I know that I can just add a Loader instance to the DisplayObjects with addChild(myLoader) but is that how I should do it? Or should these be converted to some other class? Sprite? MovieClip?

Attach Code

stop();
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var count:Number=0;
var myLoader:Loader=new Loader();
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, initHandler);
function initHandler(event:Event):void {
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Does anyone know how I could fix this? I have set PrintJobOptions to print as a Bitmap as choosing the bitmap option maintains transparencies, whereas the print as vector option does not maintain transparencies (according to the Actionscript 3.0 Bible by Wiley).

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When I import and place an image (not dynamically) that is, let's say 100x50px with a 1px border arround it and then publish the Flash movie, that image comes up as doubling up the border on two side (top and top left) and erasing it from the other sides (right and lower right).

The JPGs are saved at 100%, the JPGs are alwats set to cordinates 0,0 in Flash. I have turned off "smoothing" and turned off "compress movie." The same problem still occurs. Does ANYONE have ANY idea how to resolve this. All of my designs rely on specific pixels, and I just can't continue with this madness.

I you help me, I will be a ver happy man. Cheers.

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I will receive a PNG file from down the socket as MIME encoded data, all i need to do is draw it to screen in a set place. So i will have a variable holding my PNG file, how do i get this to screen ?

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Hi everybody!
I'm currently working on a Flash game (my first game, wheee!) and I'm trying to blow up a spaceship. What I'm doing is, I have an explosion that consists of a sequence of translucent PNGs and a Shockwave that's essentially another translucent (alpha transparency) PNG which I then scale up.
Both the explosion and the shockwave work nicely including the alpha transparency. There's one thing however, that really confuses me. When I look at the explosion/shockwave inside the Flash editor, it all looks great and when the shockwave PNG is scaled up, it gets smoothed so you don't see any pixelation. As soon as I click on "Test Movie" however, the shockwave is no longer smoothed and it looks really terrible (huge pixels). Check out the attached file.

Now I tried everything... the quality is set to "High", "Allow Smoothing" is enabled for all the images, etc.

Does anybody have an idea what I might be doing wrong? Or is it simply that Flash doesn't smooth alpha-transparent PNGs?

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Hello wonderful people !

First of all, just want to thank you for all your unselfish help you are providing to us... just wonderful ! A way to go !

I have a weird problem here. I know many will think just of one thing when they see the name of this thread, but believe me this is something completely different... We all know about those PNG issues in Flash, but most of them, if not all, are fixable. That's not a problem here. I'll try to explain what happens and when.

I have one animation with few PNG files in it, and all of them are parts of the buttons. I use PNGs to tween them so I can get nice animation for button states... nothing to fancy, just normal resize from small to bigger and backward... that's not the problem at all, because when I save SWF file everything is wonderful... as long as I don't add another SCENE to the movie. I just have no clue why is this happening...

If I add new scene, let's say I want to make preloader for my main movie, while I'm still in Flash, PNGs while morphed from small size to bigger (in those button animations) becomes very jaggy. They look exactly as when ALLOW SMOOTHING option is unchecked in BITMAP properties. And believe me, it's checked. Remember, I haven't changed anything except just added new scene to the movie. This problems makes me pull my hair out... I'm trying to figure it out for last 5 days at no avail... unbelievable...

Also, COMPRESSION is set to LOSSLESS (PNG/GIF)... same thing happens if I change it to JPG regardless of what quality level I chose.

Here is a screenshoot how everything looks:

In case anyone is interested, you can see what I'm talking about in here:

First one is the one without problems and with only one scene in the movie:

:: THE GOOD ONE :: (EDIT: SWF File removed by me because of the lack of web space)

Second one is the problem one, with 2 scenes in the movie:

:: THE BAD ONE :: (EDIT: SWF File removed by me because of the lack of web space)

In case someone is interested to solve this one, I have those FLA files here... no strange ActionScript inside, nothing, just plain animation and that weird problem.

I have noticed however that jaggy edges are not because PNG becomes messed up somehow, but because it looks like, as soon as I add another scene to my movie, ALLOW SMOOTHING feature deactivates itself somehow. I noticed that when I totally enlarged movie on the screen. It looked perfectly clear, but without anti-aliasing (smoothing). Anyone has any idea what could be causing this ?

Also, same thing happens if I don't add another scene to the movie, but if I try to make preloader on the same timeline in same scene. As soon as I add it, problems appears.

Any input would be gratly appreciated and I would be thankful for life !

Thanks in advance !

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So far hes been unable to find a way to do this (without losing the alphas on the PNGs)

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I've only had success getting the final image in the array to actually load. My experience with AS2 leads me to believe that I have overwritten something in the for loop.

basically i need to do soemthing like this within my for loop:

Code:
for (var i:unit = 0; i < myArray; i++)
{
var nl:Loader =new Loader(); // can i re-use the same loader or do i need to create one for each image i'm trying to load?
var "nl"+i:Loader = new Loader(); can you do something like this?
nl.load(new URLRequest(myArray[i]));
movieClipInstance.addChild(nl)

here's my actual code:

Code:
for (var i:uint = 0; i<finArray.length; i++)
{
var cubeFront:frontClip = new frontClip();
var cubeBack:backClip = new backClip();

var cF:MovieMaterial = new MovieMaterial(cubeFront, true, true, false);
cF.interactive=true;

var cB:MovieMaterial = new MovieMaterial(cubeBack, true, true, false);
cB.interactive=true;

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var imageLoader = new Loader();

var theURL:String = finArray[i];
var imageRequest = new URLRequest(theURL);

imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);

imageLoader.load(imageRequest);

function onComplete(evt:Event) {
trace("image"+ i +" loaded!");
cubeBack.holder.addChild(imageLoader.content);
imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE);
}

var mList:MaterialsList = new MaterialsList({front:cF, back:cB, left:clearSide, right:clearSide,
top:clearSide, bottom: clearSide});
var cube:Cube = new Cube(mList, 120, 1, 120, 1, 1, 1);
scene.addChild(cube);
//start cube in center
cube.x=0;
cube.y=0;
cube.z=0;
cube.alpha = 0;
var cPosX:Number = XposArray[i];
var cPosY:Number = YposArray[i];
trace("cPosX: "+cPosX);
trace("cPosY: "+cPosY);

Tweener.addTween(cube,{x: cPosX, y: cPosY, alpha: 1.0, transition:"easeInOutQuad",time:1.5});

cube.alpha = 1.0;
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