Any thoughts why this doesn’t work? What have i left out? I’d like to transition between two separate gradients each containing three colors. Something is wrong with this script i think.
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function animate(ratio) {
// change the ratio position, limiting it between
// 10 and 245…
ratio.x += ratio.speed;
if ((ratio.x>245) || (ratio.x<10)) {
ratio.speed = -ratio.speed;
}
return ratio.x;
}
//
//
// define the beginGradientFill parameters…
matrix = {matrixType:“box”, x:0, y:0, w:550, h:100, r:0};
colors = [0x00CC66, 0xFFCC00, 0XCC3300];
alphas = [100, 100, 100];
ratios = [null, null, null];
//
// set our animated ratio points…
ratio1 = {x:15, speed:.5};
ratio2 = {x:240, speed:.5};
ratio3 = {x:255, speed:.5};
//
// create our clip and give it an
// onEnterFrame scripr to animate it…
//
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“clip”, 0);
clip.onEnterFrame = function() {
// set new point positions
ratio1.x = animate(ratio1);
ratio2.x = animate(ratio2);
ratio3.x = animate(ratio3);
if (ratio1.x<ratio2.x<ratio3.x) {
ratios = [ratio1.x, ratio2.x, ratio3.x];
} else {
ratios = [ratio3.x, ratio2.x, ratio1.x];
}
this.clear();
this.lineStyle(0, 0xff0000, 100);
this.beginGradientFill(“linear”, colors, alphas, ratios, matrix);
this.moveTo(0, 0);
this.lineTo(550, 0);
this.lineTo(550, 100);
this.lineTo(0, 100);
this.endFill();
};
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wouldn’t it be more processor intensive to just use tweening? and how would i control the speed with actionscript then? because i need the blend to be very slow it would take about 10000 frames if i tweened it.
what could you possibly have a movie that long for?
please excuse my astonishment =)
tweening in actionscript i think would be more processor intensive. flash’s tweening ability is desiged by macromedia to be the best way to do that in flash. making your own script (i would imagine) would only be slower. so i think a tween would be the way to go although i can’t imagine why you would have one movie that is so incredibly lone … without breaking it up into scenes or whatever
although i guess that’s only a few minutes long. either way. if you’re going to do an animation sequence that is that long then tweening something over a span of 10000 frames shouldn’t be a big deal. try it
i would make a symbol on the main stage in it’s own layer
in that symbol i would have one gradient filled box shape tween to another gradient filled box of the same dimensions but with different colors over 10000 frames … that way your main timeline’s animation doesn’t necessarily need to be 10000 frames exactly.
