How do I acheive this effect?

programming flash
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I was checking this guys portfolio site out, portfolio site out yesterday:

Quite nice, fairly minimal though, anyway I was wondering how he acheived the effect for his page transitions i.e when you click on about, contact etc?

Is he using a mask layer?

2

I don’t really understand. All I see is the section on the bottom right fade out, and then a new thing pop up…

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What I was referring to was - say when you click: about, the text is shown incrementally if you see what I mean.

I guess you could acheive this with just putting a box over the text and then creating a motion tween to make the box smaller.

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yes you could mask it, or you could also use actionscript. here’s a tutorial I made a while ago.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript_text_animation.asp

Masking would probably be easier, but I just thought I would give you all the options. YOu could also just go frame by frame and make the letters appear manually.