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Post March 17th, 2003, 2:52 pm

I'm looking to make flash animation basically consisting of a jpeg background made from the cloads filter in photoshop with some text over top... the test simply fades in and out...
but i can't seem to tween transparency to allow the text to fade in.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:08 pm

another question
can I import gifs with transparency and have the transparency work.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:10 pm

Where is Unflux when we need him, I am sure he knows the answer to this one :?
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:13 pm

I do know you can use transparency with flash objects on webpages, but as far as importing a gif which has transparent colors already, and to have them apply as well in the flash, I am not sure. Unflux is pretty experienced with this stuff though, so i think he will know when he comes around.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:13 pm

true

oh... by the way.
i'm using flask MX
i also have Director 8.5 and I can do it in director but i want to make swf files.

I'm a real flash newb. I've made some flash animations before but i'm only good at tweening motion
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:15 pm

I am about as much as a noob as you when it comes to flash. I have made a few flash files with Flash MX as well, but nothing too serious. The majority of the time I use Swish as I can get things done, and pretty good looking for flash. One day I will invest the time into getting good at flash, but not now, no time haha.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:20 pm

how did you make the swf file here
http://darkvenom.com/

that uses a fading text transparency
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:22 pm

Actually Minte made that flash for me with Swish (before when I didn't know how to use that either)

Anyway you can easily do that in Swish, but there are no gif or jpg images in that.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:26 pm

I have similiar Flash on the bottom of

http://www.bigwebmaster.com/

I made that with Swish pretty easily. If I used regular Flash MX for that, I am sure it would have taken me a week, since I have no clue what I am doing with Flash really.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:47 pm

whoa... i did it...
i had to go to the graphics properties and change the alph there then it could be tweened.
nice.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 3:54 pm

Very nice then :)
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Post March 17th, 2003, 4:17 pm

*plum*... i did it once... i must not know what i'm doing... duh... cause i can't do it again... sucks to be me.
it's strange tho cause when i move the frames ahead in the frame window it works exactly the way i want it to but when i do a preview or a save it doesn't show the same thing....
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Post March 17th, 2003, 4:50 pm

Hmm try this then, after you make the flash file, add this tag in with your object tag so that it stays transparent... not sure if this will help. What you need to add is: name="wmode" value="transparent"

Here is an example of how you might do it



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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
 codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
 id="test" width="120" height="60">
 <param name="movie" value="test.swf">
 <param name="quality" value="high">
 <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
 <param name="menu" value=false>
 <embed name="test.swf" src="test.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="transparent"
  menu="false" width="120" height="60"
  type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
  pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
 </embed>
</object>
  1. <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
  2.  codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
  3.  id="test" width="120" height="60">
  4.  <param name="movie" value="test.swf">
  5.  <param name="quality" value="high">
  6.  <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
  7.  <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
  8.  <param name="menu" value=false>
  9.  <embed name="test.swf" src="test.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="transparent"
  10.   menu="false" width="120" height="60"
  11.   type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
  12.   pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
  13.  </embed>
  14. </object>


There are two spots in that code that I added the wmode. One is for IE and the other is for Netscape. Let me know if that resolves anything.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 5:34 pm

whoa... swish is awesome.
i've never even heard of it before... but man is it easy to do effects.
solved my problems. it can do everything i wanted it to.
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Post March 17th, 2003, 5:39 pm

Yup that is why I like it too, with Flash MX there is much more potential to do things, but there is still alot of things you can do with Swish... and Swish is easier and faster.
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