# Scripted movement (like a ribbon)

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**Created:** [July 8, 2004, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865 "2004-07-08T09:26:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jammers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@jammers](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jammers)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/1 "2004-07-08T09:26:36Z")

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Hi all! Hope you can give me a nudge in the right direction here. I’m looking into making a neat little action for a website. They have 5 coloured ribbons in their logo, which are horizontal across the screen .What I would like to acheive initially is to see the ribbons moving (floating) slowly in the logo.

I am familiar with scripting functions to move / scale movie clips, but I don’t really know where to start with this thing. I have looked through some tutorials with scripted motion but they’re all a bit naff and not really geared to what i want to do, if you have any pointers / tutorials you can link to then i’d be immensely grateful.

Cheers,

James

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**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 8, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/2 "2004-07-08T12:24:24Z")

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Why do you need to script it? Anyways, if you have a 3D program with Ravix, create the ribbons in there, it will be much easier, and export it to Flash. However, why do you want to make scripted animation?

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**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/3 "2004-07-08T14:40:22Z")

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not a hundred percent sure what you mean… I did create these one time:  
[swf=[http://members.tripod.co.uk/jerezz/colorfulangles.swf](http://members.tripod.co.uk/jerezz/colorfulangles.swf)]width=300&height=218[/swf]  
and  
[swf=[http://members.tripod.co.uk/jerezz/colorfulangles3d.swf](http://www30.brinkster.com/funded/colorfulangles3d.swf)]width=300&height=218[/swf]

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**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/4 "2004-07-08T21:43:29Z")

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DO you want something like this: [this](http://members.tripod.co.uk/jerezz/colorfulangles3d.swf)

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/5 "2004-07-09T08:29:59Z")

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Thanks for the replys.

Phlashman, i’d like it to be scripted so I can reuse it in various different areas with just parameter changes.

jerez\_z that looks brilliant, any more info on it?

Thanks a lot guys,

Jammers

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/6 "2004-07-09T17:21:43Z")

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Its actually pretty simple. Just a matter of drawing lines at slightly different angles close to each other, and it creates a very good effect. The code isn’t commented (and there are some 3d stuff in there that complicate it a little) but I’ll put up the .fla when I get home.

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**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scripted-movement-like-a-ribbon/56865/7 "2004-07-12T10:20:15Z")

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> [@jerez\_z](#):
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> Its actually pretty simple. Just a matter of drawing lines at slightly different angles close to each other, and it creates a very good effect. The code isn’t commented (and there are some 3d stuff in there that complicate it a little) but I’ll put up the .fla when I get home.

that would be awesome, thanks for all your help