Flash :: Attempt At Masking Effect

Viewfinder/navigator Effect Attempt
Here's what I'm after: there's a small map with a draggable rectangle (viewfinder, as it were). There's also a large map, with most of it masked. When the user drags the viewfinder rectangle, the large masked map moves accordingly. Think of the navigator pallette in Photoshop.

So, here's my code:
ActionScript Code:
speed=5;
function dragIt(dragger, dragged) {
dragger.onPress = function() {
dragger.startDrag();
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
dragged._x = (dragger._x)/speed;
dragged._y=(dragger._y)/speed;
};
};
}
function dragNot(dragger) {
dragger.onRelease = function() {
dragger.stopDrag();
//dragged.stopDrag();
};
}
dragIt(viewFinder, bigMap.bigTitan);
dragNot(viewFinder);

I've attached my fla.

I'm hitting around the problem, but not quite getting exactly what I'm after. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Text Effect - Masking Effect
Hello; I was on the site when I spotted a tutorial on a text effect, here.

I followed the tutorial and I got the desired effect and it worked perfectly! I then used the same effect on a project as it was perfect for what I wanted... I then tried to publish the flash (.swf) file and load it (just for a quick test) and to my surprise instead of having nice faded text, instead I got a huge white block that was used in the layer below the text for the masking. I couldn't see the scrolling text at all! It works perfectly fine if I go "Control -> Play".

Is there a publish setting I've got to enable? Another observation is that I get the same incorrect display when asking "Test Movie".

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

Text Effect - Masking Effect
I've followed a tutorial on a nice text effect that caught my eye, that I found here.

It works fine if I go "Control -> Play"; but if I try to publish it, instead of nice faded text effect, I just see the huge white block with the alpha linar gradient top and no text scrolling whatsoever! It's not only when I publish it, but also when I ask it to "Test Movie"... The only time it works is when I ask Flash 8 to Play the animation. I'm guessing I've missed something simple like a publish setting... But I'm a real n00b and need some help!

Thanks in advance.

Masking Effect
I have seen an effect on several different sites that I would love to do, but for some reason I can't get the effect.
What it is is the masking effect that fades out. For example, if you have a flashlight effect, where the center of the mask is 100% transparent but the transparency fades out as it goes outwards. You can find an example of this effect if you go to http://www.discovery.com/highspeed/highspeed.html, select the Mummies site and then, once in the mummies site (Enter the Mysterious World of Mummies), go to "Discover an Egyptian Tomb" (far left.. round button). Once you get into the cave you will see the effect that I am looking for. It looks like a flashlight... very cool.
Basically I am looking to make an effect that is a mask that fades out as it goes further from the middle.

How To Get This Masking Effect?
Hello,
I found this page flip-flop effect in the following site... http://www.superhere.net/.

I think its done using masking effect. But what should be the shape of the mask to get this page rolling effect? I tried all shapes I could, still not as good as the above one. Something is missing in my work. Can somebody please tell me how to do this or can somebody send me the shape of the mask ?
Thanks.

Masking Effect?
can anyone tell me how this effect is done. Please go to www.espn.com and there is a small flash movie on the main page..I like the image effect with the mask blending...

Can anyone assist me with this effect? thanks..

Masking Effect?
http://starvingeyes.com the effect on the imgae when you go into that site. I was wondering if theres a tutorial anywhere that would give similar results. I would have searched it but I'm not sure what the effect is called.

Masking Effect
Does anyone know how to create a double masking effect?

The only example I could find is this link: (It contains female nudity, so please dont go there if you are offended)

Its the only example I could find. sorry

Thanks

http://home.chello.no/siamak.javid/e...rtSecurity.swf

[F8] Masking Effect
I´m trying to achieve a masking effect just like the one on the menu of LeeBrimelow´s site "the flash blog"
Check it --> www.theflashblog.com

The masking code is allright but i really don´t know how to do the circles effect (since creating a movie clip with a thousand circles doesn´t seen to be the "right" way). Any clues / tuts on this? I´ve searched for "Masking effects" on several places, but nothing like this showed up.

Thx in advance for your replies

Masking Effect Help...
hey everybody, I have an effect im trying to achieve and having some trouble. I have a MC that is following the mouse and is also a mask to another layer. But i want to have the mask taper off with a gradient so that the transparency revealing the underneath layer is gradually reduced. Is that possible? If i bring in a png file with transparency and i convert it to a movie clip then it is just a square and doesn't really preserve the transparency. Ive tried to break apart the png file, and tried trace bitmap, but every time i convert the graphic to a MC then the mask is just a blob or whatever the final shape is and has no graident. Ive included a file to show what im talking about. any help is appreciated a lot. thanks.

Masking Effect Like This One? Help
smooth rollover scaling...or something?????
just wondering what do they use to make the rollover upscaling downscaling or whatever u call it maybe mask...bla bla is so smooth ...how??? AS or tweening? so cool
wanna be able to make a masking like this anyone help will be very appreciated

http://www.group94.com/

thanks

PS... do they ever answer thier comments.. u know?

Masking Effect
Does anybody how to do this masking effect
http://cowieandfox.com/

Kind of like a slideshow. I would like to use an XML file.

Thank you in advanced.

Masking Effect
Hi I am new to flash.

How can I create a masking effect like the site below? The shining logo.
http://www.stgregoryspa.com

Is there any tutorial I can refer to? I kinda need to create the exact effect.

Thanks in advance.

Masking Effect
Bonne journe!

Could you please tell me how can I create the image transaction effect on my 5-6 photos in flash?

like : http://www.zebracommunicationsgroup.com/ center flash effect

Merci beaucoup.

This Masking Effect
Can someone please show me how to make this effect?
http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/home/#Scene_1

Please refresh until you see the animation with the masking effects-

I've seen tutorials on this before but I cant find them now...

Could This Be A Masking Effect?
I'm learning flash on my own, but can seem to figure out how to achieve this effect. The flowers look like they're growing.
If you could help me or point me towards a tutorial that will help me creat this effect I'd appreciate it. The examples are;

http://www.margotblanche.com/ and http://www.beyonceonline.com/main.html

I'm looking for something more like the first one though.

Thanx

How To Do Masking Effect Like This
http://www.easternmandaps.co.uk/index.htm

how do you this same masking effect?
i assume its action script,
ive seen this exact same masking effect on other sites.

somebody must have a tutorial

Masking Effect
Does anybody how to do this masking effect
http://cowieandfox.com/

Kind of like a slideshow. I would like to use an XML file.

Thank you in advanced.

Masking Effect
Hey guys, how is the transition done here?
http://www.templatemonster.com/flash...tes/19713.html

Thanks!

Masking Effect?
Hi,

I was wondering what exactly the used to achieve this effect:

http://vitaminwater.com/
Now if you go to vitamin water at the top nav, choose our friends, then pick a person through the list on the right. See how their photo slides in?

Is this something that's achieved through masking? If so how? I had people tell me it could be done through masking but can't seem to figure out how they did it. Any ideas?

If not do you think they used another program like After Effects to achieve this?

Sorry for the random post asking how someone else did something, I know it can get annoying. I'm just looking to learn some new things and I always enjoy what people come up with. Just have a hard time picking up on how it's done sometimes.

Thanks in advance!

Help With Masking Effect ?
Hi,

I just looked at macromedia.com and I saw a masking effect that I would really like to learn.

If you look at macromedia.com, it's the section right below the navigation where it displays Edgemodern.com - white background, and it looks like a venetian blind closing on each image so that it disappears. THe middle section continuously shifts into another image - from the macromedia product to a furniture (i think). I hope you guys see what I'm seeing. You might have to refresh twice to see it as macromedia displays another banner about edgemodern.com.

Is there a link with a tutorial or a FLA I can download and study? Been looking at actionscript.org and flashkit.com and can't seem to find it.

Thanks in advance!

Masking Effect. How To ?
guys. thanks for all the help i read off these forums.
Does anyone know where how to do this masking flickering effect.
the one over CDavid and Sting. when it flicks white all over their exact images ?

this is the link. please help!
http://www.buzztone.com/atlantic/cra...all/splash.asp

Masking Effect
can anyone give me some advice on how to perform this loading circle mask effect correctly?

http://www.dynamicfactory.us/xmlswf/...p2b/index.html

Masking Effect
Hello,

Ive been wondering, how do you do masking effects like those found in the transitions of this side.

http://bsfllp.com/htm/flash.htm

-Mike

The Hugeinc.com Masking Effect
How did they do the masking effect on hugeinc.com? I know how to move the mask, but not how to show the text underneath. I assume it is dynamic text because it looks so crisp.

The only way that I can think of is that they dón't mask the text but everything else. So the layer order would be:
-mask
-dark background with txt
-full colour background

The problem is I don't know how to drag the mask in this form.

Help With Masking Wipe Effect
Hi all-

Heres my situation..I have succesfully made a "wipe transition" between two pictures using a mask.

It is set up like this

Mask Layer - contains movie clip of shape tween animation
Masked Layer- contains picture #1
Layer 3 ( NOT Masked) - contains picture # 2

Everything works well, but how do I add a 3rd picture to this? I want the movie to stat with picture #2, then make the transition to picture # 1, and then transition to picture #3....and then back to picture #2..you know what I mean..just a loop of three or four or five pictures...

I guess it probably simple, but I spent quite some time trying different things, and none of them worked.

I put up my current work at http://www.carolinehope.com so you can see what I am talking about...You dont need to mention the white line on the left hand side of the animation, I am already aware of that . : )

I can email someone the FLA file if they wish.

any help is really appreciated.

Thanks

Masking Effect With Actionscript
I've seen a couple image effects like this before:

http://www.eccentris.com/flash.htm

Has anyone out there built something like this or know how its done? I guess its mostly duplicating movieclips and masks, but I can't figure out where to begin.

Thanks!

-- Jenni

Masking Effect Querie...
I am really loving this program! there is soo much you can do....

Though I am not quite sure about masking.... I am hoping that someone can help me understand the masking rules.

The way i've created this masking effect is by duplicating the background picture and then moving the masked picture by 'moving one or two pixels to the left and up. Except when i try this with text, you can see the movement.... how can i avoid seeing the movement created within my masked text and/or picture?

Please help,,,,

Thank-you.

Masking Effect With Actionscript?
I was looking at the masking effect at www.fontsforflash.com
on the transitions when you go from section to section.
Any ideas how they do that?

X-ray Glasses Masking Effect
I don't know if this is possible or not.

I have Flash 6, MX... I've noticed in this version that you can drag a mask around the screen.

So I got a girl that was fully clothed and then the same picture, but the girl is in a swimsuit.

When I move the mask over the fully clothed woman, it shows through to the swimsuit.

Now the tricky part... I want to have a visible handle that moves the mask around. For example, like an old pair of X-ray vision glasses, you would see the frames of the glasses, but where the lens's are, that is where the mask effect is. Like a selective mask. I've tried to do this, but I'm not having any luck.

I can get the mask to stick to the mouse pointer no problem, but I want a visible handle that controls the mask.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You,

Matt

Masking Effect(bsfllp.com)
http://www.bsfllp.com/htm/flash.htm
do appear the masking effect when click right menu button..
how to do for masking effect???

OO( )( ) Advanced Masking Effect
I have seen this effect somewhere, takes some explaining..........

say you have a photo on the stage, its layer is masked. What I want to achieve on the mask layer to introduce the image is to have lots of small dots (or any shape) gradually growing so they eventually overlap each other, thus exposing the entire image. Does that make sense?

Anyway I tried making a movie clip of a circle growing and putting multiple instances of it on the mask layer, but this didnt work.

Should something like this be done with actionscript? I cant seem to find any tutorials or .flas

Cheers

Kylie.com Masking Effect
Hi All,

Can anyone explain how the transition between pages on Kylie.com is created?

Thanks!

Masking Effect --- How To Create.....
HI All ----

I am trying to create a masking effect similar to the one found here.
However, I am having a difficult time figuring out exactly how it's done.

Can anyone provide insight(or a sample fla ) into how this effect is done?

Thanks for any and all responses.

Cheers!

I Am Trying To Emulate This Masking Effect
I am looking to emulate the background masking effect, and the menu bar(roadmap) on www.boyhitscar.com, does anyone have an idea on how to do this. or an example.

Transition Effect Masking Help
doing the animation itself was simple enough, but i cant get the
masking right. its a page turning effect, a simple one, but i cant get an image to stay on the front side of the page as it turns.

i got it from this tutorial here, but i cant get the last part
right. i would appreciate any and all help.

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flas...el/index2.html

Masking While ActionScript Is In Effect
i have this navigation movie (see attachment) and i would like to be able to create a mask layer for the InfoMC movieclip so that the spaces inbetween the Buttons don't show the actual Options being action scripted, as they move from Right To left.

or can you not Mask a layer that contains a MC thats being controlled by ActionScript?

AS2 Blur Effect Masking
Hi

I 've recently used the blur function in AS2

//import the blur filter (requires Flash 8 & actionscript 2)
import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
blur = new BlurFilter(0, 10, 1);

I got it all working but the main issue I have is
my mask doesn't seem to cover this blur effect.
Does anyone know how to mask the clip that is
being blurred using AS2 ?

thanks

Masking Effect Question
Hi everyone, this is my first time posting, sorry. I am new to Flash, but I've got a general knowledge of it to help me discuss this question.

I am trying to build a site that has a homepage with a set background image. The basic format of the site is broken into a grid. It is 5x9 overlaying this background image. The image is not broken into a grid, the grid is just for show. From this home page there are 3 buttons at the bottom. What I want to happen is when one of the buttons is clicked the homepage background image, or whatever is in the background, stays there and the information that the button is calling up to dissolve one square at a time, or in a combination, to give a nice dissolve/transition to the next set of information.

What I've tried doing:

I started another scene, which is the contents of the page after the first button is pressed. My layer stack from bottom to top is, a copy of the background image and grid from the homepage, then a new layer that is masked. On the layer is an image with all the information I want to show after the wipe. So on the mask layer I have 45 boxes. Each box is set to a zero alpha. As the keyframes go thru the time line certain sets of boxes are put up to 100% alpha, and have a white color. But what I'm getting is the background image is static, like I want it, and then the white boxes just pop the masked layer in below. There is no dissolve or anything.

This is probably the wrong way to attack this problem but with my limited knowledge it is the only thing I could think of. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could achieve this effect?

Thank you!

Is Gradient Masking Effect Possible?
Is it possible to make a gradient mask, I mean to achieve such animation effect of smooth transition in hiding/revealing objects, like in photoshop's mask?
Or is there any other way to do it?
Thx...

Eraser Effect (masking)
I'm trying to animate a masking effect but I seem to be running into a bit of a problem.

I have 2 images of a windsheild. One image is a really dirty muddy windshield and the other is the same except it's clean.

I want to use a masking effect where it looks like the mud is being wiped clean. I do not want this to be user interactive. It's just an animation effect.

Anyone know how I can do this?

When ever I make the mask flash is not allowing me to make new key frames of the mask (so I can reveal more of the image underneath)

thanks in advance,

-James

ActionScript Masking Effect?
Hmmm.... Was surfing around and I wonder how they made that masking effect between the page...
(I look over the search in the forum and found nothing)

http://www.imagomilano.com/

Masking Effect Problem
i am having problem when i use this masking effect. I make two layers 1 for image and second for effect and do the fill color in effect layer .erase the lines by erasor and do the masking effect also. the problem is when i run my file it only shows up for first thing i draw . For example if i started with a line then it shows effect only for that first line not for others.

please explain why it is happening.

Movieclip Masking Effect
I like this effect, can someone point me to a good tutorial or explain how
this is done?

http://www.cosmotoronto.com/images/shizan.swf

Thanks for your help.

Bruce

How Do I Achieve This Masking Effect?
Hey All,

I've seen stuff like this before and have always wanted to know how to do it.. I know he uses the shape tween instead of motion, but I can't seem to replicate it.. can anyone help me?

Look in the main window (the yellow one) the way the mask kinda drapes down revealing the content... http://www.clgd.net/

Thanks in advance!

Ben