Thanks to many of you, Raymond, Egg, Bill--and especially Sally, I got up the nerve to post my very first Flash animation made with XXPro.
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Thanks to many of you, Raymond, Egg, Bill--and especially Sally, I got up the nerve to post my very first Flash animation made with XXPro.
That works nicely!Quote:
Originally Posted by WolfMoonHP
Um, suggestion, if I may - using clipview would have kept the horizontal blingthing within the frame ..
Now you have your feet wet, you can find out all kinds of adventures you can have with Xara.
Thanks, Raymond...it was after midnight when I finished this, and I used clipview on the left, but forgot to do it on the right...:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Intbel
For the horizontal blingthing (I can't think of a better name for it than that either), does anyone know how to make it flare? I tried feathering, but Flash doesn't support that.
And Sally, thanks for the encouragement. I still have much to learn, like how to make things rotate properly, etc., but I'm having so much fun with Xara that I'm actually totally neglecting my oils and watercolors...sigh...
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Will
Will, very nice for your first flash animation.
Try using circular transparency instead of feathering for the flare.
1. Circle with circular transparency 100% center 100% perimeter
2. Circle with circular transparency 50% center 100% perimeter
3. Circle with Circular Transparency 0% center 100% perimeter
4. Circle with circular transparency 100% center 100% perimeter
Another flare with colour transitions.
Bill...
Thanks a lot! I will definitely be playing with these flares.
This version uses circular transparency on the moving ellipse, and clipview on the right-hand side as Raymond suggested.
One sort of neat effect I stumbled on by accident (wish I could claim brilliance, but everyone here would know better ;) ). Notice that the ellipse starts out wide, tapers to be very narrow, then widens again?
This happens when I inverted the ellipse. As it tweens, it shrinks then expands again!
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Will
Will that animation is great. I love the sparkle that floats down to the top of the exclamation mark. The ellipse effect is very effective in the animation.
That is definitely creepy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
Bill, thanks for the compliment!
Believe me when I say that if I had not discovered this forum, I would not even be attempting this sort of work! It is thanks to you and many others who are willing to offer help and advice that many of the members of this forum are learning far faster than we could otherwise.
I know that I am grateful, and I'm sure that is true of most of the others as well.
Thanks again!
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Will
Will you are very welcome. Sharing information and techniques helps all of us. :)
Paul it is a little hypnotic, isn't it :D
Very cool WM (if I may call you WM).
Gary
According to the Help file Clipview does not work with Flash. Quote:Quote:
Originally Posted by Intbel
Limitations:
Some Xara Xtreme features do not exist in the Macromedia Flash format:
Bitmap fills. Flash does not support repeat inverted tiling. Other fill features export correctly.
Conical fills, Diamond fills, Three-color fills, Four-color fills. These are simulated as they do not have an exact equivalent in Flash.
Brush stroking of lines.
Feathering.
Arrow heads and dash patterns on lines.
ClipView
You can export rollover buttons but only with one object as the button design. (That is, you cannot create rollover buttons with text on them.)
If you have overlapping bitmaps with transparency, you may find the colors brighten or 'solarize'.
Sorry the Help is wrong. Clipview does work and is a very important tool for Flash animation. Anywhere you require objects to come in from the side or top, or to shoot off, or to enlarge outside your main frame - that's when you'd use Clipview.
tellurian, as the top of that help page says that is for exporting static SWF files, so that page isn't relevant to animated Flash anyway. But as Charles said Clipviews are fine, so I'll see about updating that page and making it more obvious that it's talking about static SWF export.
Ok, thanks - it is a bit confusing yes since it seems to the only reference to Flash in the help file.Quote:
Originally Posted by AntonyF