I’ve been searching around everywhere not finding the info I want so now I,ve decided that someone here is bound to know how to make a realistic glow effect. Like a kind of animated light that slightly pulses a coloured glow. It is for an interface I am attemping to build.
Could I get away with generating all the graphics in Flash MX? I want these lights to be links too. I’m thinking of making a button with graphics on different layers animating on the <i>hit</i> and <i>over</i> states to create this effect. Could I get a mc on to a <i>hit</i> state and so on?
Checked your fla. out. Nice one. Softening fill edges, just looked through this. I didn’t realise I could do this in Flash; just made the exact glow effects I was looking for. Thanks again.
Now for that tricky part, well tricky for me being new to Flash, how do I get this “animation” to work as a button? With different coloured “glows” at the <i>hit</i> and <i>over</i> states?
You can either right click the link and select “Save Target As…” or right click the link and select “Copy Shortcut” and then paste it into a new window. It will work both ways.
WOOT I learned something new about flash. Thanks eilsoe!
But after trying this out for a while, it doesn’t look like it’s going to work with complex shapes like text. I’m trying to make a neon glow effect for an interface, and I don’t really know how to approach it. I’ve tried importing from photoshop, but getting it to blend in with the fla isn’t going well.
if it’s what you’re after, I’ll explain what I did…
(NOTE: heh, look at my posting time took me only 7 minutes to make the gfx in ps7, export into flash and tween, publish, upload and write this post! lol)
I’m going to bed now, so i’ll explain it quickly anyway:
Save your glow layer as a “.png” in photoshop, and make sure the background layer is transparent (use the background eraser tool).
This gives multiple levels of transparency when importing to flash. Take a look at the fla i gave you, the glow layer is imported, then symbolized into a MC, THEN you can alter the opacity of it too! Hella clever huh?
U can go absolutely nuts with this actually… just remember, png’s are NOT vector based… so don’t overuse them…