Flash animation

[vts31]

thanx to Lost for AS.

(press the circle)

[lostinbeta]

Beautiful man. Absolutely beautiful.

[eilsoe]

once again i missed the quick reply..


very techish there edwin, very indeed!

the trendiest tech eyeish thingy I've ever seen :P

[iLikePie]

i love that effect of shadowing/blurring objects by having lower alpha % copies of the clip following it... you seem to use that really well edwin, and your motions are always so smooth and flowing :D

Stuart

[kode]

Beautiful man. Absolutely beautiful.
=)

[vts31]

i like it when it de-assembles.

[AnOraK]

very very cool

nice 1

::::: AnOraK :::::

[ahmed]

wow.. its impressive =)

[andr.in]

oh my! That's so cool! I Wish I could do these kewl things!

[mdipi]

wow! very nice edwin!

[GARRETTDESIGN]

wow very nice. impressive. Fluid movment. i likes

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by vts31
i like it when it de-assembles.

Me too... so fluent... so silky smooth.... mmmmmmmmmmmm :love:

[vts31]

thanx :)

[Mik3]

One word:
Wow (actually two) cool

[eyeinfinitude]

Pretty slick Edwin. =)

[SureShot]

Great work man, great work.

I have a question - how is your animation so smooth? is it because you use a lot of AS or just small tweens or what? Any tips (and yes I did read the guid by player :) )

[vts31]

no actionscript was used to animate anything, except for the rewind effect. UM the animation is smooth because i dunno ive been messing with tweens for 3 years now. that particular animation runs aat 60fps. its all about trial and error

[mdipi]

what guid by playa?

[vts31]

Originally posted by mdipi.com
what guid by playa?

????????

[telekinesis]

Edwin tried to teach me to master the tweening world of Flash, I failed horribly lol. I think it is just something that comes natural to some people!

:tie:

[lostinbeta]

Look at your footer dan. We can tell right away that you are talking bull ;)

[telekinesis]

Look at my work then at Edwins, enough said!

It is like comparing me to pom's AS skills.

[gimmesomemore!!]

i agree w/ lost, your tweening is very nice. Alot better than mine! If i compared myself to edwin.....I would give up all hope

[nobody]

i really really like this.. its beautiful

[telekinesis]

I love the tracer effect he showed me!

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by dan4885
Look at my work then at Edwins, enough said!

It is like comparing me to pom's AS skills.

LOOK AT MINE COMPARED TO YOURS AND EDWINS!!!!

Enough said there ;)

[hojo]

that is beatiful, very nice edwin and lost

[vts31]

look at mine compared to gmunk.com !! we're all hopeless.

[RelandR]

***Ohh~da~lay***

...(wow,cool and all other forms of amazement were allready taken)...

...wait a minute - OooooLaLa - was available too :!:

VeryNice !

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by vts31
look at mine compared to gmunk.com !! we're all hopeless.


Please, you could match gmunk any day Edwin. You just choose to go your own route :)

[vts31]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
Please, you could match gmunk any day Edwin. You just choose to go your own route :)






HAHAH yeah right! he ownz me hardcore. Maybe not a drawing but when it comes to motion he has a gift! thena again he is 10 years older than me. I dunno i need 5 years more i think.

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by vts31
HAHAH yeah right! he ownz me hardcore. Maybe not a drawing but when it comes to motion he has a gift! thena again he is 10 years older than me. I dunno i need 5 years more i think.


Lies... all lies.... well except that he is older. Just think, by that time, you could own like that. Oh wait, you already do.

The only thing I could own you in is scripting, but thats because your a flash designer and not a flash coder.

[nobody]

that guy wore scary clothes.. im scarred for like 2 days

[vts31]

har har har

[lostinbeta]

gmunk is hot...... but not my type :sleep:

::heh heh::

[vts31]

thats not really him on his site. i dont think

[lostinbeta]

I don't know, I think that really is Bradley Grosh (gmunk)

[lostinbeta]

Nevermind, you were right, I found a picture of him through Google (gotta love it)...

http://www.aec.at/festival2001/bilder/showone.asp?ID=2051


I have seen pictures of him in that had in this movie too.....

http://www.gmunk.com/r3dev/

[vts31]

haha he is a NERD!

[lostinbeta]

LOL, yep, but thats what rocks!

[vts31]

it is! he is one of us har har

[lostinbeta]

We must assimilate him :cyborg: :block:

[vts31]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
We must assimilate him :cyborg: :block:

we should get him for Kirupa Interviews me thinks

[lostinbeta]

Good one Edwin.

[morse]

1) I love the tracer effect he showed me!

2) i love that effect of shadowing/blurring objects by having lower alpha % copies of the clip following it

-I seem to be missing a lot! Could someone throw me some links?

[vts31]

Originally posted by morse
1) I love the tracer effect he showed me!

2) i love that effect of shadowing/blurring objects by having lower alpha % copies of the clip following it

-I seem to be missing a lot! Could someone throw me some links?

u mean for animating? there aren't many. just keep doing it untill it makes sense.

[mjULTRA]

what is the AS for the tracer effect? is it somewhere on the boards already??

[lava]

oh man.. that gmunk site rocks!

[lava]

man, I think I'm going to take a weekend off from doing work and try to recreate some of those animations... it's going to be interesting to learn how they're done.

[vts31]

Originally posted by Majeye
what is the AS for the tracer effect? is it somewhere on the boards already??

I didnt use any AS for the movement or effects. Only to play the movie backwards. the rest is 100% tweens. THere is code for tracer its pretty simple.

[mjULTRA]

i know there is code for tracer, and i am looking for it..

AS code for playing a movie backwards wouldn't hurt. Forum search here i come!!

[lava]

Originally posted by vts31
I didnt use any AS for the movement or effects. Only to play the movie backwards. the rest is 100% tweens. THere is code for tracer its pretty simple.

haha... I hadn't thought about using AS to play something backwards... shows how much I know..

[mjULTRA]

THere is code for tracer its pretty simple

yeah its probably pretty simple to you, pom, senocular, and lost in beta, but the rest of us are clueless....

i found this, but im not sure if its partial code, or if it needs to placed in a certain area of the timeline.. i am in need of assistance! :sigh:



mc.onEnterFrame=function(){
this._alpha-=10;
if (this._alpha <=0) this.removeMovieClip();
}

[mjULTRA]

bumpity bump bump

[Aislin]

*aids in the bumping because he is curious*

[lostinbeta]

Create a clip on the stage with the instance name "ball" (no quotes)...

Apply this to a frame
_root.ball._visible = false;
MovieClip.prototype.ranMove = function() {
this._x += (this.newX-this._x)/this.speed;
this._y += (this.newY-this._y)/this.speed;
if (Math.round(this._y) == Math.round(this.newY) && Math.round(this._x) == Math.round(this.newX)) {
this.newX = Math.floor(Math.random()*Stage.width);
this.newY = Math.floor(Math.random()*Stage.height);
this.speed = 3;
}
};
_root.ball.onEnterFrame = ranMove;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
_root.ball.duplicateMovieClip("ball"+i, 10-i);
myBall = _root["ball"+i];
myBall.speed = _root.ball.speed+(i*.4);
myBall._alpha = _root.ball._alpha-(i*10);
myBall.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.endX = _root.ball.newX;
this.endY = _root.ball.newY;
this._x += (this.endX-this._x)/this.speed;
this._y += (this.endY-this._y)/this.speed;
};
}


This was real quick, so don't expect much.

[mjULTRA]

okay. i guess thats a step in the right direction, and was awful easy to cut and paste, but did you purposely make the effect complicated? I think what people (me included) really want to know is how to apply that kind of effect to an existing motion tween, without the random movement... (Yo, shane, Ignore this post if i am bothering you. Im sure

Would an AS technique use more system resources than doing it with multiple layers of the motion tween, each offset, and at a different Alpha? Cuz i can achieve that, i just wanted to do it quickly with AS...

[lostinbeta]

I don't believe you can use AS to manipulate a motion tween other than play direction.

The entire tween itself would have to be scripted, the the rest is just duplicateMovieClip decreasing the alpha of each clip and also decreasing the speed it moves at.

[mjULTRA]

alright thanks LIB.. Ill just hafta animate in frames, which i am accustomed to doing.. sorry for being so demanding...

VTS31, that kicks major a.s.s. you are skilled..

[vts31]

its fast if you do it with frames.

[mjULTRA]

..and also by doing it with frames, it allows the reverse actionscript effect to be seen! i think im learning!!