That <i>is</i> the type of effect I’m after.
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!
Many thanks
no prob
that’s what we’re here for.
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?
well, do u have a fla i could see?
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:
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…
Just poped in to you profile to send it via email and there is no way of making an attatchment
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!
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.
well whaddya know…
thanks lost!
No problem, I used to have my site on tripod so I knew the drill:)
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
…anyone?
Yes, I will make a quick something for’ya…
hold on, back in a jiffy…
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)
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…
thanks for the explanation. I should’ve known about saving with a transparent background. anyway it works perfectly!
I’ll show you how I implemented it whenever I finish with this current project. cheers. =)
typo
hehe, yesyes!