Trace of light around a shape

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Well I see it all the time but now I cant find an example…

Ever see how people will make a trace of light go around the outline of a shape?

I know how to do the motion etc… but I can seem to make the little trace of light look correct…

Anyone know how everyone does this?

thanks

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I think this is the sort of thing you mean; Its an extremely simple example but maybe will help you understand
http://www.gifsrus.com/testfile/simpleurMask.fla

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THANKS MAN!

I get it… I was making it to hard!

You just draw a line in whatever pattern you want…

Then mask the line… and tween a basic gradient across it…

Thanks again

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Your welcome, there are tutorials dotted about on this but they tend to make it look harder than it actually is.

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You still around?

Can you look at with with me…
It seems easy enough… but nothing shows when I test the movie…

http://www.videolinktechnologies.com/test.fla

thanks

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oops, forgot to tell you, you have to convert the lines to fills.

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ahhh… will try… thanks…

also, I see you used shape tweening… any reason you did not just use motion tween to send the graient across the screen?

thanks so much for your time.

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no, it was just quickly made as an example for someone else

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cool… yeah I got mine going now… rock & roll.

well i will leave you alone now… thanks again… you are a credit the net community.

kj