I’m trying to realistically simulate cursive handwriting as it’s being written. I’m not exactly sure where to start. Motion guides and masks? Do I do it frame by frame a pixel at a time? Does any one have any suggestions?
The words I need to simulate are “is now Instant”
thanks in advance for any help.
There is a great article about this in Flash MX Most Wanted by Friends Of Ed. The Gist of it is use a mask that is a rectangle with a slanted end. Then pic out a nice cursive font. It won’t be perfect but I’ve used it before and it looks pretty good.
yeah, you would probably have to use a combination of frame by frame and motion tween masks.
Its probably possible to do with all actionscript, but that would be time consuming…
type what you want, then frame by frame take a bit away then reverse the frames
it look good i did it
you can make a 4-5 frame gap between each new part then shape it for a better look
takes a long time but does look good
Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like it’s going to be a lot of tedious frame by frame work.
-peace
if you have a really good hand writing and a great mouse control, you can redo this effect by storing the ‘image’ in an array as coordinates, and plot them after… kind of like this:
(draw anything with the mouse and click ‘redraw’)
http://24.141.60.208/drawer.swf
I ended up putting a mask layer over my text. Every 2nd frame, I added to the mask exposing more of the letter below. The effect came out pretty well.
thanks for the suggestions.
-peace