How to add volume to simple shapes?
How can I take simple rectangles like in the attached screenshot and add volume to them to give them more depth so the artwork is not flat. I tried playing with the extrude and bevel effects though was not able to do it. Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Orr draw half the shape path and use the Effevt>3D>Revolve that will give some options for positioning as well the abitilyt to map art to it.
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and the Game class (the documents class)
package {
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import flash.display.Sprite;
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import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
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import flash.display.BitmapData;
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Now you'd need to be catching those errors. Again, the errors should be formalized or you could use events by extending IEventDispatcher. I kept it simple.
Here would be the simple Bullet class I'm using:
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Just draws a red circle just to visualize it..
Here would be a full example of using it. It will import both of these classes (saved as SpritePool.as and Bullet.as in the same folder). Paste this in the actions panel on frame 1:
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D'oh no more bullets! I need more!
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