That <i>is</i> the type of effect Iām 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 mcā¦ thats all there is to itā¦
hereās the fla, u can use it as u like!
Many thanks
no prob
thatās what weāre here for.
Checked your fla. out. Nice one. Softening fill edges, just looked through this. I didnāt 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 āanimationā to work as a button? With different coloured āglowsā 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?
Iāll put it on a site that I know will allow it.
I wonāt be beaten. Anyhow for me this is a learning experience.:rambo:
hehe, i looked at your zipped swf, nice!
Always nice to know when youāre helping someoneā¦
But, the fla link u gave me doesnāt work, tripod doesnāt allow direct linking like thatā¦ sorryā¦ but u can mail me the fla if uād likeā¦
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 senderā¦ 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 āSave Target Asā¦ā or right click the link and select āCopy Shortcutā and then paste it into a new window. It will work both ways.
well whaddya knowā¦
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 doesnāt look like itās going to work with complex shapes like text. Iām trying to make a neon glow effect for an interface, and I donāt really know how to approach it. Iāve tried importing from photoshop, but getting it to blend in with the fla isnāt going well.
anyway I appreciate all tips.
-typo
ā¦anyone?
Yes, I will make a quick something forāyaā¦
hold on, back in a jiffyā¦
www.avalon-rev.dk/neon/neon glow.html
that is the swf, heres the fla:
www.avalon-rev.dk/neon/neon glow.fla
if itās what youāre after, Iāll explain what I didā¦
(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)
Iām going to bed now, so iāll explain it quickly anyway:
Save your glow layer as a ā.pngā 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 actuallyā¦ just remember, pngās are NOT vector basedā¦ so donāt overuse themā¦
thanks for the explanation. I shouldāve known about saving with a transparent background. anyway it works perfectly!
Iāll show you how I implemented it whenever I finish with this current project. cheers. =)
typo
hehe, yesyes!