Star Wars Intro
I'm trying to create an intro for a movie similar to the one in the Star Wars movies. Any ideas on how to go at doing that?
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Posted on: 03-30-2005, 12:36 PM
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Star Wars Intro Tween
I need some help doing a tween for a clip like the intro to Star Wars, where the title zooms out and fades into the stars before the opening crawl text comes up.
I figured I'd just tween it and have it zoom out, but I've been having a lot of trouble with the speed. It starts out at an okay pace, but as it gets smaller, the rate of shrinking gets faster and faster, and it looks pretty tacky. What I want is for it to move at a steady pace the whole way through the animation, like it does in the Star Wars intro; actually, it would be better if the rate were reversed, with it going faster initially, and getting slower as it gets farther away.
I tried an ease out of 100, but that doesn't kick in until about 2/3 - 3/4 of the way into the animation, so there's still a noticeable acceleration. My other idea was to do a "speedbump" approach, setting keyframes and stretching the animation at certain points to even out the pace. I'd like to know if there's a better way to do this, like if there's some other function of MX that I haven't found. This is plain MX I'm using, by the way, not '04.
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ActionScript Code:
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,shrink);</p>
<p>var lastTime:Number = getTimer();</p>
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<p> </p>
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<p> bigText_mc.alpha-=.01;</p>
<p> }</p>
<p> </p>
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