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AS Drop Shadow
I created a drop shadow in my movie via AS, but don't understand how to adjust its thickness, alpha, etc.
Here is what I have so far:

import flash.filters.DropShadowFilter;
var dropShadow:DropShadowFilter = new DropShadowFilter();
var filtersArray:Array = new Array(dropShadow);
myImage.filters = filtersArray;

How do I adjust the strenght of the filter?

Thanks a lot for any help!

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Drop Shadow
A newbie question here regarding text drop shadows. Is there a quick simple way of achieving drop shadows without breaking the text apart?

Also, I'm finding that some of the text I've typed into a menu I'm working on comes out very blurry while other words typed with the same pixel font are very clear. Any ideas why this happens and how to remedy it?

Many thanks!

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Drop Shadow?
can anyone instruct me how to put a drop shadow on a web page please?
I want the main page to seem as though it's away from the background.

any help greatly appreciated as always !

Mike....

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Drop Shadow
I would like someone's help applying a drop shadow to a display object. I have several books and the Help to look at for direction but I am still unable to get it right. A nice simple block of code would be greatly appreciated.

Call the display object "thing." It's placed on the stage thus:

Code:
var thing:Loader = new Loader();
addChild(thing);
thing.load(new URLRequest(filename));
...where filename is "thing.swf". Hopefully that's enough information. Let me know if I need to give you more.

Thanks!

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Drop Down Shadow
Em just wondring how make them drop down shadow effect in Flash like this one here http://www.kirkimages.com/Site/kirkimages.html

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Drop Shadow Effect
Whats up everyone,

Can anyone tell me how an image or text with a "drop shadow effect" that is imported into flash without the white background and keep it's crisp shadow effect??

here's a few url's with that effect

http://www.widegroup.net/ie/index_home.htm

Take a look at the box area's that contain the text and image. They have faded type of shadow to them.

http://www.daworkshop.com/

Look the the word "HOME" at the top of the screen, how is this done??

Thanks!

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Drop Shadow And Other Pieces Of Joy
I'm working on a menu and have encountered a couple of font realted issues. The first is to do with blurry text. I'm using a nice pixel font from miniml that I've used before. All the words are displyed on level plains (75.0 rather than 75.3 for example) and yet some a crystal clear while others remain blurry.

The other issue is to do with drop shadows. I want to know how to create consistant drop shadows for all the text. I tried simply copying each set of words re-colroing them black and then overlaying them but there's no way to keep them all consistantly overlayed to the same degree. I also don't want to break the words apart as I may need to update them regularly.

Any suggestions most welcome!

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Text Drop Shadow
Can anyone tell me how to create text drop shadows in Flash MX 2004 or a website that has a good tutorial for it? Thank you!

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Text Drop Shadow
Hi guys, I just was wondering if I am able to make text drop down shadow in flash MX.

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My Drop Shadow Disappears
can someone tell me why?

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Drop Shadow On Webpage?
i'm making a flash website and would like to add the drop shadow that i made in photoshop for the homw page...but when i align it in flash, the white stage box always appears...even when i publish it for the web....can someone tell me how to have a drop shadow without showing the white stage?

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Drop Shadow For Text
hello my fellow americans who are flash happy and proficeint with flash.

how do i get a drop shadow behind text? should the drop shadow be put in before i break apart the text. gradient goes on the text.

thanx,

polie

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Drop Shadow Question
Code:
applyDropShadow (menuNames);
}
function applyDropShadow () {
trace (menuNames)
var dropShadow = new flash.filters.DropShadowFilter (10, 45, 0x000000, .6, 10, 10, 3, 3);
var dropFilter:Array = menuNames.filters;
dropFilter.push (dropShadow);
menuNames.filters = dropFilter;
}
For some reason the following dropshadow effects works on some objects but not on others. I have a function above that creates some MC's. The function places the objects on the stage and then I apply a dropshadow to those objects. This should work this way unless I am missing something. I change this line.....

menuNames.filters = dropFilter;

to

_root.filters = dropfilter;

The DS works but on every object on the stage and only applies a drop shadow to the BG.

I must be missing something about the DS filter?

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Animating The Drop Shadow
Hello.

Suppose you wanted to tween a drop shadow filter on a movieclip, how would you do it? I've been working with is code:

ActionScript Code:
var dropShadow:DropShadowFilter = new DropShadowFilter(shadDist, 50, 0.5, 0.8/);
testBut.filters = [dropShadow];

shadDist is a variable, I was hoping I could tween that variable therefore tweening the offset of the shadow, add to that an alpha tween and bingo. Sadly, I can't get the shadDist tween to work, mainly because I can't figure out how to tween a variable with the caurina library. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks, A.

EDIT: I just found TweenFilterLite. I'll leave this up for future reference.

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Rotating Drop Shadow
okay, so i have a ring made up of 10 balls - sort of like a clock - and i've made them spin one way, then in the other direction. i want to create a realistic drop shadow that obv animates along with the ring, but when i skew the shadow and then animate it to rotate, the whole shape moves in a funky way. instead of looking like the cast shadows of the individual balls in the ring, it looks more like a second, skewed clog doing it's own thang. i've tried motion tweening first, then skewing, and vice versa - with the same results. i'm a newb to flash, and my luck with motion guides has not been good. when i try breaking up the balls into 10 individual layers and making them rotate around a circular path, i get some error message saying i can't animate ungrouped or multiple symbol layers or something weird like that. i've watched a couple motion guide tutorials, but i still can't apply it to the project i'm working on now. anyone have a spare 5 mins to tell me how to do this? i will love you forever.

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How To Do A Simple Drop Shadow?
I am a total newbie here and with Flash, so bear with me.

I thought there was a simple way to do drop shadows, is there a simple way that i am missing? can someone tell me an easy way to do it?

Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

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Drop Shadow Text ...
How do you create it?

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Drop Shadow Question
http://fileservice.ca/fs/usr/jamie/old/

Check that out first.
My question:
I want to add a drop shadow to the outside of the white border frame. You will notice that there is a shadow on the inside of it.
How should I do this? Alpha transarent PNGs are out because of windows IE. What are your thoughts?

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Drop Shadow Problems
I have created a site where I have the content scroll up and down. I have created a background shape with tabs placed up and down the graphic (to get a better idea swf is attatched.

why when i make the graphic bigger down my dropshadow filter not work when i publish it and when i shrink the graphic back down it works again.

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Controlling A Drop Shadow
Hello

Is it possible to control the properties (ie angle, distance, alpha, knockout, etc) of a drop show effect using actionscript? If so where do I begin?

Cheers,

Hoolagon

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Transforming A Drop Shadow
Hey there reader,

Does anyone have a clue how to transform a drop shadow? I want the effect of light coming from above a ball, and a skewed shadow on the "ground" below it. I can't apply the transformation matrices to filter objects, and i don't know a way to place the filter effect in its own Sprite to transform.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any pointers would be much appreciated.

thanks!
Jesang

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Drop Shadow Text ...
How do you create it?

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Quest For The Drop Shadow ...
hi. im trying to create this drop shadow effect bellow square boxes. similar to what robert reich did here. as i understand it, bellow each white box he has another box [a little diverted to the left and down] which he uses as a drop shadow. each time the front white box moves, he makes sure to move the underlying shadow as well [??]. though if you notice, his underlying shadow isnt a plain semi transparent grey box, but some sort of gradient that moves from very dark, right under the contour of the front box, to transparency. how does he do that ???
any help would be greatly

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Drop Shadow On Rects
Hi I was wondering how to add a drop shadow to a rect or
another figure like done on this site

URL

or is this totally done on photoshop

greetings Sven

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Graphics - Drop Shadow And Inner Glow?
Can anyone help me with graphics in Flash MX? I want to make a box with an inner glow and drop shadow around all the edges. This is simple in Fireworks but I can't figure it out in flash? I can make a drop shadow that is round but not one that is square around the edges? Any ideas?

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Drop Shadow, Alpha Transparency
I'm having a problem with creating a drop shadow that looks good on top of different colors. What I did initially was create a radial gradient that goes from black in the center to white on the outside, and I gave the white an alpha of 0. It looked great on white, and a few other colors (such as red), but it looked awful on blue (the most important color for this project)....giving it a white halo effect.

I also blended it from black to black...giving the outermost black an alpha of 0. It worked on all the colors, but the shadow wasn't as realistic as the previous one. It looked rather blocky.

I also tried some png transparency, but it gave me a slightly discolored box around it, and I would prefer to use vectors.

Is there anyway to blend it from black to just nothing? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks!

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Movie Size/drop Shadow
HI
I created a movie, and as an after thought I would like to add a drop shadow.
How can I increase my movie size and center my animation, without having my movies that load into location all be of center?
Should I make a bigger movie that is just the drop shadow on the lowest level, and then load my original movie in a higher level, or is there a better way to do that.
thx for any suggestions

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How Create Soft Drop Shadow
How does one create a soft drop shadow on a vector shape in Flash ver. MX. I also need to tween the shape. I'm trying to achieve the look in the folowing linked image but using flash vector so I can move, resized, tween the shape etc..

http://www.dansalzman.com/test/main.html

What I have posted is now just a raster image. Any ideas? THANKS!

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Drop Shadow And Emboss Effects
Hi - just wondered if anyone could help me

I'm trying to recreate the same kind of fx as the logo on this website
http://www.theforcegroup.co.uk/

it starts with just a simple letter F, but then they seem to add layer fx like in photoshop such as drop shadow, emboss and outerglow.

Is it possible to do these kind of fx in flash, or did they just super impose a photshoped version once the flash had loaded?

Any help/suggestions would be luvly!

Thanks a lot

Alix Dalton

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Disable Filters Like Drop Shadow
Hey guys.

I want to make a button where it will disable all drop shadows on all objects.
Is this possible?
How can I do this?? I thought it would be something like this:

on (press) {
_parent.quality.inner = "disabled";
}

But it does nothing What have I done wrong???

Thanks in advance

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Drop Shadow On A Loaded Jpeg
can anyone help me out with how to apply a drop shadow to a jpeg I load into an empty mc using actionscript?
an example would be great!
thanks mark

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Drop Shadow With Dynamic Content
Hello all!
I am trying to apply a drop shadow to a dynamically loaded Jpeg. Can someone look at my code and see what might be wrong? I think I am close but not sure whats wrong. Funny when I knew nothing about actionscript it wasn't nearly as fustrating as knowing enough to write most of the code but not being able to put the final touches on it.

Code:
function yelGallery () {
for (var i = 100; i < 121; i++) {
this.attachMovie ("paintingMC", "paintingMC" + i, i);
this["paintingMC" + i]._alpha = 0;
this["paintingMC" + i]._x = 35;
this["paintingMC" + i]._y = 0;
if (this["paintingMC" + (i - 1)]._x > 200) {
this["paintingMC" + i]._y = this["paintingMC" + (i - 1)]._y + 90;
this["paintingMC" + i]._x = 35;
} else {
this["paintingMC" + i]._x = this["paintingMC" + (i - 1)]._x + 90;
this["paintingMC" + i]._y = this["paintingMC" + (i - 1)]._y;
}
this["paintingMC" + i].onRollOver = function () {
myOnRollOver (this);
};
this["paintingMC" + i].onRollOut = function () {
myOnRollOut (this);
};
this["paintingMC" + i].onPress = function () {
myOnPress (this);
};
var t1:Tween = new Tween (this["paintingMC" + i], "_alpha", null, 0, 50, 3, true);
this.myMCL.loadClip ("Galleries/forSale/tn_forSale/tn_painting" + i + ".jpg", this["paintingMC" + i].painting);
applyDropShadow ();
}
}
function applyDropShadow () {
var dropShadow:DropShadowFilter = new DropShadowFilter (5, 45, 0x000000, 0.8, 10, 10, 3, 3);
var dropFilter:Array = new Array ();
dropFilter.push (dropShadow);
this["paintingMC" + i].filters = filter_arr;
}

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Using Drop Shadow And Blur Filters
Hi guys,

i have doubt about animating drop shadow filter and blur filter for a textfield ...

is there any way please help me...

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Why Does Adding A Drop Down Shadow Add Blur?
It's been annoying me for a while this. But how come adding a shadow also adds blur, is there any way around this other than adding another copy of the MC without the shadow ontop!!

I'm just wondering if this is a glitch and if there will be an update to fix it or anything. It just seems wrong.

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Drop Shadow & Text Problem
Hi

I have tried using the drop shadow on text that I have motion tweened. Problem is the movement is quite jerky. I have broken the text apart and put it into a MC adding the drop shadow to the MC rather than each bit of text. This seems to have improved it. Would actionscripted drop shadow improve the motion or not. If yes how do I achieve it.

Maybe someone got a better idea for me

TIA

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Drop Shadow Filter Not Showing
Hi -
I'm using the Filter tab on the Properties palette to apply a drop shadow. as I'm working on the FLA it looks as expected but when I publish it - no shadow. The shadow is not part of the MC but applied after the MC is placed on stage.
What's wrong? Why aren't I seeing the shadow in the swf?

TIA your input.
jl

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hi webmates:

I have been looking for a tutorial for this and I could find just nothing till moment...

I am allowing my customer to upload his own JPG's files (photos) and then I want my code to make them drop a shadow... how do I achieve it ? pease help me .... thanks in advance,

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Can I Tween A Drop Shadow Variable?
I am trying to use the following code to tween a drop shadow property. When I play the movie it doesn't look like anything is happening so I am guessing I can't, but maybe someone can help me here.

Would it work if I made my filter var static?

here's the code that sets up the filter:

Attach Code

//SET UP THE DROP SHADOW
var ds:DropShadowFilter;
createDS();
var filter:BitmapFilter = ds;
myFilters.push(filter);
two.filters = myFilters;

function createDS():BitmapFilter {
var color:Number = 0x000000;
var angle:Number = 45;
var alpha:Number = 0.4;
var blurX:Number = 5;
var blurY:Number = 5;
var distance:Number = 10;
var strength:Number = 0.65;
var inner:Boolean = false;
var knockout:Boolean = false;
var quality:Number = BitmapFilterQuality.HIGH;
ds = new DropShadowFilter(distance,angle,color,alpha,blurX,blurY,strength,quality,inner,knockout);
return ds;
}

//DO THE TWEEN

function overExpand(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace("two over");
var myTween1:Tween = new Tween(two, "width", Regular.easeInOut, two.width, two.width+10, t, false);
var myTween2:Tween = new Tween(two, "height", Regular.easeInOut, two.height, two.height+10, t, false);

var myTween3:Tween = new Tween(ds, "blurX", Regular.easeInOut, ds.blurX, ds.blurX+5, t, false);
var myTween4:Tween = new Tween(ds, "blurY", Regular.easeInOut, ds.blurY, ds.blurY+5, t, false);
}

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i have several circles on my site with a drop shadow (created in Photoshop and saved as PNG's)...the circles are actually part of the menu....once u select a circle, the circles resize and become smaller...

my problem is that when I resize the circles, the quality of the circles becomes horrible....

How do you resize a shape with a drop shadow without losing its quality? if i try to make a drop shadow in flash, it doesnt look as good as the drop shadow in photoshop.

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I've encountered a strange problem in Flash 8 and was wondering if anyone has seen it/fixed it somehow.

I've got an MC that has a drop shadow filter on it. The Stage resizes via JavaScript to the the size of the MC. When you scroll it appears like the drop shadow intensity setting goes way up more and more as you scroll, then once you stop scrolling it resets to where it should be.

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Hi , is there a way to create dropshadow using laco or mctween ?