drop shadows and flash animations

[camaron]

Does anyone know if it use a drop shadow as a part of a flash animation? I've not managed so far.

[steve.ledger]

The Flash vector rendering is quite primitive compared to Xara Xtreme Pro 5's, and so you can't use many of the more advanced Xara Xtreme Pro 5 features such as feathering, complex transparency and fill types, bevels, soft shadows, or contours. :

Xara Xtreme Pro 5 drawing features that Flash supports:

• All normal line and shape drawings (although Flash is a lot less precise than Xara Xtreme Pro 5 and so sometimes you may notice inaccuracies in lines and shapes).
• Flat, linear, circular and elliptical gradient color fills.
• Multi-stage gradient color fills, including linear and elliptical fills. Eight color stops maximum.
• Flat transparency. Mix type only.
• Graduated transparency is supported for flat color filled objects (non-graduated). So you can have graduated color objects with flat *transparency or flat color objects with graduated transparency, but not both.
• Constant width outlines (stroked paths) with rounded end caps and line joins (version 8 Flash files support the other join and cap types).
• Text, including kerning. You can use any fonts you like. The outlines of the characters of any used fonts are embedded into the Flash file. This is much more efficient than, say, font embedding in PDF documents.
• Text on a curve. Note: the line used for the curve must be made invisible for the animation to work.
• Bitmaps and bitmap fills.
• Contoned (colored) bitmaps and bitmap fills.
• Photo Saturation, temperature color and blur (but not brightness / contrast change).
• Fractal Cloud and Plasma fills will work, but are converted to bitmaps, so not efficient.

So you can't use, amongst other things:

• Any transparency type other than mix.
• Feathering.
• All complex graduated fills (conical, diamond, 3 color etc).
• All complex graduated transparency styles (as above). (You can use linear, and elliptical transparency on flat color filled
• objects.)
• Live Effects.

The following object types will export in static Flash, but do not animate.

• Soft shadows.
• Bevels.
• Contours.
• Blends.
• Moulds.

Taken from Xtreme 5 Help file

[camaron]

Thanks slender for your reply, I think that is probably a no as an answer. It is a shame though