# Buttons that glow - please help **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [September 24, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850 "2002-09-24T00:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Marc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Marc)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/1 "2002-09-24T00:49:52Z")
Hello Everyone 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 \hit\ and \over\ states to create this effect. Could I get a mc on to a \hit\ state and so on? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/2 "2002-09-24T01:06:27Z")
is it this effect you’re after? [blink](http://www.avalon-rev.dk/blink/blink.html) or something more realistic? the white blink’s color can be changed to your liking of course… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/3 "2002-09-24T01:12:47Z")
That \is\ the type of effect I’m after. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/4 "2002-09-24T01:21:26Z")
All u do is make your button or whatever, make a new MC, draw a shape that resembles your button, but without the outline, get me? If u disable the outline, and draw a shape in white (i.e), you can (when the shape is marked) go to **modify-\>shape-\>soften fill colors**. then just play around with the alpha of that mc… thats all there is to it… here’s the fla, u can use it as u like! 😛 [blink.fla](http://www.avalon-rev.dk/blink/blink.fla) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/5 "2002-09-24T01:24:27Z")
Many thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/6 "2002-09-24T01:29:55Z")
no prob 😛 that’s what we’re here for. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/7 "2002-09-24T01:36:09Z")
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 \hit\ and \over\ states? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/8 "2002-09-24T01:47:13Z")
well, do u have a fla i could see? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/9 "2002-09-24T14:10:54Z")
Tripod is making the fla. file unavailable for download. Now what have I done wrong? I’ll put it on a site that I know will allow it. I won’t be beaten. Anyhow for me this is a learning experience.:rambo: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/10 "2002-09-24T14:14:50Z")
hehe, i looked at your zipped swf, nice! 😛 Always nice to know when you’re helping someone… 🙂 But, the fla link u gave me doesn’t work, tripod doesn’t allow direct linking like that… sorry… but u can mail me the fla if u’d like… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/11 "2002-09-24T14:25:09Z")
Just poped in to you profile to send it via email and there is no way of making an attatchment ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/12 "2002-09-24T14:42:58Z")
oh, i forgot i uses this forum as a sender… hmm, well, i u are using outlook as your mail service prg, send it via that! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/13 "2002-09-24T14:56:14Z")
Eilsoe, 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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/14 "2002-09-24T16:35:12Z")
well whaddya know… 🙂 thanks lost! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/15 "2002-09-24T18:25:55Z")
No problem, I used to have my site on tripod so I knew the drill:) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/16 "2002-09-29T03:03:51Z")
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. anyway I appreciate all tips. -typo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/17 "2002-09-29T23:42:25Z")
…anyone? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/18 "2002-09-30T00:03:08Z")
Yes, I will make a quick something for’ya… hold on, back in a jiffy… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/19 "2002-09-30T00:10:15Z")
www.avalon-rev.dk/neon/neon glow.html that is the swf, heres the fla: www.avalon-rev.dk/neon/neon glow.fla 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_) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850/20 "2002-09-30T00:38:03Z")
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… [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/buttons-that-glow-please-help/5850.md?page=2)