Need Help with an effect

Does anyone know how to take an image of grass and make it
look like it's blowing in the wind? I've seen images bent in
directions before, just don't know how.
Please help.
Thanks.

If your grass is a bitmap - then my FLA won't help you
anyway. You can't manipulate bitmaps like
that in flash - your only options are to re draw it in flash
with vectors or use Anime Studio's
Bones and Warp Image features (awesome!!!) - check it out at
www.e-frontier.com. Then import it into
flash as an image sequence.
Chris Georgenes
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San Diego Living wrote:
> hmmm I get an error trying to open your fla file :-(
>
> My grass image is not a vector image. I'm guessing it
has to be to make this
> type of effect? I do want it to look somewhat like what
you have, only my
> grass has been mowed a lot more ;-)
>
>
>

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