RE: FLASH: How did Kimble do that?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 11:47 AM 6/30/99 -0700, you wrote: 


>

> Even so, if he did do that how did he get it so it had a perfect tail that

> went from big to small as he moved and the animation changed.

>

> Would anyone have an example of how this is done? 




I think it's just in the tween of the movie clip used. But possibly he used the

scheme I described where the button is inside the movie clip (rather than

Dorian's scheme, which is actually an easier way). on rollover, the tween can

become visible, then stop. The button would have a second action, on RollOut

Play, which would make the movie clip move again, to the end of the tween,

where the object becomes small and disappears. I didn't look that closely at

Kimball, but you can do very complex things with this scheme. 


I made one where every button hit is counted, and after a certain number the

main timeline moves ahead to a frame where the mouseover effect changes, so

it's a whole new effect after the visitor plays for awhile.  To see this, you

can download the .swf at the Flasher ftp space: 206.107.180.51, log in as

anonymous, your email address is your password, and go to DartFrogMedia and get


glow06.swf.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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