# How do they do that? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590 "2003-07-14T19:19:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![macromuncher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macromuncher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macromuncher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/1 "2003-07-14T19:19:25Z")
Can anyone provide me with any pointers as to how to achieve that springing rectangle effect on [http://www.ibknet.be/](http://www.ibknet.be/) Any help appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/2 "2003-07-14T19:21:18Z")
Do you mean the effect right after loading; where the rectangle gets big? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/3 "2003-07-14T19:31:31Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/4 "2003-07-14T20:32:18Z")
anybody? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/5 "2003-07-14T20:58:18Z")
I’ve always wanted to know too…I think its like frame by frame tweening… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/6 "2003-07-14T22:07:30Z")
well i think its like this , very easy too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/7 "2003-07-14T22:09:30Z")
yeah something like that might work, although that is not entirely the same so i’m not sure :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/8 "2003-07-14T22:10:02Z")
oh yea why the extra layer above the shape tween? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/9 "2003-07-14T23:38:18Z")
i always separate all in layer. the layer above is for the text. of course is not the same, but thats the idea. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/10 "2003-07-14T23:43:23Z")
yup tweens - actionscripting the whole thing with curves, rectangles and fills would require at least a dozen math field medal winners. Or a bunchful or kaxes or ilyases… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/11 "2003-07-14T23:51:04Z")
would it be a shape tween? or a frame by frame thing?!?! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/12 "2003-07-16T12:34:09Z")
A guy on were-here forums posted this [http://www.vemix.com/flash/u/box.zip](http://www.vemix.com/flash/u/box.zip) which seems to do it mathmatically. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-that/25590/13 "2003-07-16T23:23:04Z")
wow, i thought it’d take many more lines than the amount he used. :-\