Hi,
Just been gradually switching over to AS3, and I’ve hit a problem and its doing my nut in because I can’t find a way to get it to work.
Basically I want to take a portion of a movieclip and convert it into bitmap data into another movieclip.
I know the basis would be something like:
var b:BitmapData=new BitmapData(100,100,false);
var bm:Bitmap=new Bitmap(b);
mymc.addChild(bm);
But I can’t work out how to get that to pick up the movieclip that I’m trying to extract from.
Hayyyulp.
The link below is the kind of method I want, but because this is drawn at real time it would cause the area to expand with the movie clip, when all i want is to extract a portion and place it as a surface texture. (draw on the box on the right hand side)
http://www.visitmyworld.co.uk/body.swf
Also, I don’t really think it necessary to update in realtime, that and id assume generating the bitmap area in real time would cause major slowdown issues. If anybody has any different solutions to what I propose then advice welcome.
The reason id want a bitmap is that data id want to project could be complex layers, ie- items can be dragged on rather than just being drawn on.
Cheers,
Adam
