Special text effects

1

Theres a few text effects that I’ve seen that are very cool.

  1. The words drop down and bounce, each lettter individually

  2. text letters appear 1 after another, like a typewrigher

Is threre a tutorial anywhere on how to do this stuff, I know how to do it the long frustrating way(Making a movie clip for the text and indivudually editing every movement) but is there a better way to do these?

2

You know Swish?
Swish is softwere who make all this text effect, try it:
Swish home page

3

You might also check out the flash typer section of flashkit.com they have some nice effects there too. Swish was already mentioned, another good flash text animation program is [URL=http://www.wildform.com/swfx/]Wildform’s SWFX

4

Here is a great tutorial… I love messing around with my own effects with this tutorial…

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

5

:slight_smile:

6

:beam:

7

With the swish thing, I made a text image. How do i export this image into my other flash movie?

8

When you use swish are you supposed to make your whole animation in it? If so this sucks, id rather use real flash, is there a way to just take the text effects from swish and use them in flash mx? Besides for just loading the movie of the animation into flash of course :slight_smile:

9

You can import the .swf file into Flash. It will import as a frame by frame animation that you can’t really edit much, but its there.

Just export out of Swish as a .swf file the go to File/Import in Flash MX then find your .swf file and import it.