Animating A Movie File Using Vectors
Hey,I'm trying to do what i do with a bitmap image to a movie file. I just go to modify/bitmap/trace and it traces my bitmap into vectors and makes it look all animated and such. I would like to do the same thing for a movie file that i have. Is there a possibility to do that in flash, if not, what program should i be using? thank you for your help.
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Posted on: 03/20/2007 10:54:10 AM
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Animating A Movie File Using Vectors
Hey,
I'm trying to do what i do with a bitmap image to a movie file. I just go to modify/bitmap/trace and it traces my bitmap into vectors and makes it look all animated and such. I would like to do the same thing for a movie file that i have. Is there a possibility to do that in flash, if not, what program should i be using? thank you for your help.
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Im using Flash 5.
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Hi there,
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I have an image gallery, which is a horizontal group of images in a movie clip. I want to put back and next buttons in place that when clicked the movie clip will fluidly move across _x to the next image, preferably with a springy sort of motion as it stops at each image.
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I draw a cogwheel into a movieclip using actionscript.
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How can I do it?
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Hi,
I have a performance problem that may be best demonstrated with an example.
http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/swf/game1.swf
If you look at the animation and watch it for a while you will see the
number of balls growing.
Initially the performance is so-so but eventually it becomes totally
unacceptable. So I was wondering if anyone could impart advice about any
optimizations.
Every tile is a movie clip and every ball is a movie clip that tweens from
one tile to the next. I also need to read the frame the clips are on but
when I bound a class to the balls clip it immediatly ran unacceptably slow.
I have a plan B which involves creating tile animations of each of the ball
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Hey im a beginner at animating and i need advise on how to animate text. Like when the viewer is watching my movie I don't want a whole paragraph to come out of no where I want it like word by word or letter by letter like someone was typing it right then and there. I tried figuring out a way but the only thing was adding a key frame for each individual letter. any tips? and also any advise on how to make the text come in with flare? like fading in or coming in from the top?
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I would like any help please.
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Hi everybody. Hope you're all ok.
I have this code I use for animating text with actioscript, and it works wonderfully. But I have found a problem.
First, this is the code which duplicates the movie clip that contains the animation AND the text box which contains the letter to be changed:
duplicateMovieClip ("letteranimation", "letteranimation" + x, x);
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Now, since I want to let anybody to load different text effects, I load another movie (later will be able to load any movie which contain each a different letter animation).
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I found that, according me of course, although I loaded an external movie (Text1.swf) the behaviours and paths of the functions remain the same, as if I didn't load an external movie. BUT also, it seemed that when loading this content on the target, only respected me the objects and their animations (of Text1.swf), and NOT the Idnames of the movieclips contained on the Text1.swf !!!
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So, if anyone can help me about this LITTLE issue, that would be more than great.
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