Flash Blurred layers
I am searching for someone who can give me direction or ideas
on how the flash effect was created on the home page of this web
site.
http://www.savvycd.com/
I would like to create the same blurred overlayed effect but,
haven't been able to figure out how the semi-transparent blurs were
created to slide over the background.
E-mail me direct
hi.
create a background movieclip(in say layer1),and drag the
same moviclip onto stage in different layer(layer2).
go to Filters and blur the second layer to desired level.Mask
this layer so that you can display a part of the second layer.
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New to Flash - Imported layers contain contents of lower layers?
Hello.
I have just started using flash, and know next to nothing about some of its functions, so I apologise if I appear to ask questions with obvious answers.
Anyway, I am attempting to add animation to a previously created layered image, which I am importing from a .psd. The image is structured so that different layers contain translucent masks for objects below - e.g., an upper layer might contain a purple tint gradient which is overlayed on the layers below. I can open up this image in photoshop and it behaves as you might expect, but I'm having difficulties importing the image into flash. When I do, for some reason, the layer contents are modified so that some layers contain not only the contents previously in the layer, but the contents of everything below it, as if that layer and all layers below have been merged down into that one layer. The lower layers are still present, but any modifications made to them are not visible as they are blocked by lower layers. This does not seem to be true for all layers - only those that previously contained elements with an alpha value anywhere between 0 and 255 - i.e., the mask layers. This makes it impossible to achieve my goal, as I am attempting to animate the objects beneath the masks.
I'm not sure entirely why this is happening - it seems to be flash converting my layers in a very unintuitive manner. If anybody can help me figure out how to get around this, I would be very grateful. Possibly I could import each layer one at a time and re-arrange them in flash, but this would be very time consuming, especially considering that I may want to add animation to multiple similar files in the future. As such, if there is a way to get the layers to import correctly as arranged in the .psd, then this would be extremely useful.
Thanks!
[moved from AS3 forum - not AS related]What are you using to generate the PSD?
Flash's mask support is a bit tricky. In most versions of flash it works as an on/off switch. If a layer is marked as a mask layer, if there is ANY data (transparent or not, white or black or any color), it considers that you want to show that portion of the layers it masks. If there is no bitmap data of any kind in the area, it will NOT show that.
Pictures are much easier to explain. This behavior would be much different in Photoshop.
In Flash, say you start with a giant ugly stock rainbow square as the graphic you wish to mask:
Note in the timeline above I have a layer above named 'mask' and it's set to actually be a mask layer. In that layer I have this radial black/white gradient:
If I pasted that into the alpha channel of a layer in Photoshop it would gradient the pictures transparency based on the black/gray/white. In flash, it doesn't care about that. All it cares about is there "is" or "is not" data. Since there's data in a larger region than the image it is masking, it will show the whole rainbow square below it, unlike Photoshop:
There's the output, mask applied.
Now if I actually cut a square of "bitmap data" out of the middle of the mask, Flash will dutifully clip that area so you can't see it. No data = can't see. So my new mask:
Now due to there being "missing data" in that rectangular area it will cut out that portion of the rainbow box:
Does this clarify a bit about the simplicity of masks?
To get masks to work a bit more like Photoshop there's a bit of a code workaround we've all used for quite a long time. You can read it in many links of you search for AS3 gradient mask. Take a look at the code samples to see how. -
Hey good people,
I'm running into a strange problem. I have a site built in
layers - there are rollovers buttones which show different bits of
work, the usual hide & show layer trick - nothing new there.
However I have added a Flash video file to a layer (which in the
layer panel is below the image ones) - However when checking the
site on Browsers Safari & IE the video layer file for some
reason jumps to the front and plays - rather than seeing the first
image layer. The video layer in DW is on the 5th hide & show
layer button - so shouldn't be the 1st thing you see when looking
at it in the browswer. The site works in Mozilla, Firefox and
Camino though. Any ideas anyone - this is a real head spinner..!!
For tech info I'm running DW2004 on OSX. I've check this on a
PC and the same thing happens.. any ideas??
Any help would be welcome as I hope to launch the site very
soon.
many thanks
TDon't confuse using layers to add interactivity (what you
call using
Hide/Show), with using layers to layout the page. It's the
latter approach
that is not best practice.
If you need for something to appear when requested by the
user, then
revealing a previously hidden layer is one perfectly
acceptible way of doing
this. But by virtue of the use of layers at all, one is
buying into the
unique qualities that layers have, some of which can wreck a
carefully
crafted layout (even when only used in a Hide/Show mode). The
point here is
that as with anything else, the magnificent convenience of
layers extracts a
heavy price, one that you may not be prepared or willing to
accept. If you
don't know about what that price is, then you will be in for
some unpleasant
surprises.
By the way, magazine tutorials are not necessarily the most
authoritative
sources for 'best practice' tips. To be honest, most of those
I have
learned, have been learned right here on the DW forum.....
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> to Murray *Ace*
>
> Thanks for the advice, really didnt expect a fully
explained one, so many
> thanks for your time on that.
>
> But to your Q's getting into Web design os a slight
career shift, I'll
> still
> be doing print -but want as well as design for web I
want to know about
> the
> 'rights and wrongs'. I buy industry mags such as .Net
and Web Developer
> (UK
> based mags) So that I'm up to par and on the right lines
in all lastest
> issues.
> I am self taught using Peach Pit books and have been
dabbling since DW4.
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> Also when I design, I always use 'split view' - contary
to belief even as
> a
> designer as prefer to 'see' what code is going on at the
same time - in
> addition to that I kind of know my way round HTML - well
I know the
> basics.
> Where I think I come unstuck is best practice scenarios
- like I mentioned
> I
> thought using 'Hide/Show layers' was a standard practice
- the above
> mentioned
> magazines always have tutorials and they don't mention
NOT to use this
> method -
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DW or in fact
> HTML so
> I'm going on other peoples teachings to get things
right. And in using the
> 'Hide/Show' technique I wanted to move away from using
the old 'tables'
> method,
> which I'm sure I'd be beaten aroud the head for by you
guys! So in your
> opinon
> which is the best way forward for me to design the page
or in fact the
> site -
> what would be your suggesting. In designing websites
what I belief I need
> is
> some sort of guidance, just so that I know I'm on the
right(eous) path!
>
> My next stage is educating myself with CSS which
admittedly all I know are
> the
> real basics, such as linking, type styles and colours.
>
> Many thanks in advance again - I am truly indebted to
your time and
> efforts in
> this.
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>
> Alan Smithee Jr.
> Thanks for your comments too - it's been taken on board
and the changes
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OK, so I didn't want to jack the "Blurs" thread started by Darrell Toland, but I have a similar problem...
I have two examples... Motion Problem 1 and Motion Problem 2. Just download the QT file and take a look...I don't have a website to post on, and FTPs change it to .flv and look like crap. Sorry.
Anyway, it's a map that zooms in to an area (Atlantic Ocean). Atlantic Ocean text has Volumetrix effect on it (glow). Problem is, the effect makes the text blurry and it doesn't move correctly with the rest of the zoom. You can see that in Motion Problem 1. With Motion Problem 2, I split the text at the point where the glow starts (making it two layers) and put the effect on the second layer. So it goes from looking good to jumping and getting blurry right when it gets to the layer with the effect.
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Any suggestions how to keep the text from blurring when an effect is applied? Thanks.
Jonathan
Message was edited by: synergy1
Message was edited by: synergy1Thanks, Peter. I don't know why I didn't just post this on your forum...since you developed the effect! I've got it bookmarked and all. I'll mess with the fixed layer stuff. But what about the effect making the text blurry, or "soft." You can see that in Problem 2...where it goes from crisp (no effect) to blurry (just as the effect starts) or in Problem 1, where the "Atlantic Ocean" text is softer than the rest since it has the effect applied.
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Hiya,
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Hi
I am trying to use a file name which is in a variable in one
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