Time for a new tutorial. This time, we will look at how to use the filters in Flash CS3 to create the effect of text being engraved into the background. Note that this effect will work only on text that is big & bold enough.
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I won't go into explaining how to do this, because there already is an in-depth tutorial about the basics of making a flash ad banner, where every detail you need to know about this is layed out clearly.
Note: To create a better exploding effect move larger pieces of text away from the original piece of text. Then from the larger pieces of text move smaller pieces of text away from the larger pieces.
Using the Text tool (T), type your text on the stage. I chose the Verdana font type with the colour red. You can choose whatever colour or font you wish.
On the timeline insert a new layer called “mask”. This layer contains your masked object. Using the rectangle tool (R) drag a rectangle shape before your text message. Convert your mask object (rectangle shape) into a symbol by pressing F8. Give your symbol an appropriate name, check movie clip and click ok.
@TucsonFx This tutorial is just a simple example of how you can use input text in flash. And yes, it is possible to display a message if the field is left blank.
I too had the same thing happen, but I solved it. I think the problem is that a step was left out. 3 layers in total are needed for this effect. I created a 3rd layer called it "bkgrd" & moved it directly underneath the "shiny effect" layer, keeping it nested in the "Layer 1" mask. I made a rectangle that was slightly larger than the text, filled it with black and voila. The effect worked! Without the "bkgrd" layer the text disappears as the mask tweens beyond the text, rendering it invisible. Hope this helps, & btw, a shape tween is called for instead of a motion tween for the gradient rectangle.
Depending on your specific needs, it may be necessary to load text from an external file into a dynamic text field in Flash MX. The following example and steps illustrate one way to add this functionality to Flash movies.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the standard technology used to format the presentation of web pages. It could also be used to style HTML formatted text in Flash so that you could update the formatting dynamically by editing your CSS file without going back to the source FLA. CSS also gives us greater control over the way our text is formatted and allows us to customize our styling in ways that are not possible using HTML on its own (eg. changing the color of text links). The text displayed in the following Flash movie is loaded from an external text file and its formatting is configured by an external CSS file. This tutorial shall teach you how to create this sort of movie.
2. Type some static text to the center of the stage. Use whatever font and size you want. Use the color #FF8800 if you want the same looking glow effect as in this tutorial.
Select File > Import > Import to Stage, or press Control+R. In the Import dialog box that appears, browse to the folder containing the image you've just downloaded (Header-Background.jpg), select it and click Open.
Once again I got a question to one of my written tutorials, this time it was my Macromedia Flash tutorial on how to make a text floating effect, where some letters is floating into place from different places outside the stage.
In order for the 3D text to be created, we first need a base font definition to start with. This is in the form of a SWF with embedded fonts, which in turn is embedded in our application. [code]
The effect below is a very simple yet effective way of 'jazzing-up' text that otherwise would look plain. Its very easy to do and looks cool and eye-catching; very good for logos:
Of course, Flash MX doesn't make it that easy to create a text scroller. That's why this tutorial exists. The following is an example of the text scroller you will create by following my instructions:
This Flash tutorial is presented in a step-by-step format. Feel free to use your own settings when it comes to background and text colour. I will only show what I used.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a professional effect using very simple commands. Learn to create this effect using key-frames instead of action script. You will also learn how to break apart text so that we can edit and add effects.
In this tutorial, you will learn a very important lesson on building and using the scrolling text box. You will learn to assign a Scrollbar from the components list in Flash and how to wrap text within the box.
In this tutorial, you will learn to animate a custom text loop. This is a popular effect, and after this tutorial you will feel comfortable adding to text and graphics.
The Font Symbol Properties should pop-up. Simply select the font you want to use from the drop down menu, you should not be bothered by the other attributes as they do not really matter. I am choosing the Windows Vista font Calibri, you can pick whatever font you want to use.
In the Outline panel, right-click on the text object and select Copy Object. Then, use the Edit menu and select Paste in Place. You should now have two text objects at the exact same location on the Stage.
Unfortunately, there are some problems if you use the built-in GET and POST option with LoadVariableNum(). For some reason, sending Variables by POST only works in Internet Explorer and not with Netscape and Opera. For this reason, the variables will be passed directly in the URL string.
We are going to be working with a lot of area that isn't on the stage, so it will make your life easier if you change the viewing area to 50% to shrink the Stage and show more of the "imaginary" Flash Stage.
In Option section, click this button and you will open a pop-up. Click your mouse on the left picture to select a transparent color. Drag Tolerance slide bar to adjust the tolerance. Drag the Alpha slider to adjust the alpha attribute. Click OK to return to the logo setting.
The tutorial to follow along with and more useful Flash stuff. Flash, irritatingly enough, does not come with a specific stroke tool, but I have found a few ways to get around this and simulate a stroke effect with the following methods.
Step 12. Select all the text and use the Gradient Transform Tool (F). Rotate the gradient so it is parallel (horizontally) like so. Adjust the gradient a bit until you feel like it has a chrome look.
4. Now go to Window and select Components. When the Components panel appears, open the User Interface components and drag a copy of the UIScrollBar component near bloack text
Step 1. Create a New File with any dimensions to your likings. (P.S. There will be no Action Script work and therefor this effect can be done on any versions of the later Flash softwares.)
8. You have to initialize HTMLText1.scroll value. Choose "Frame" > "ActionScript", type the following code and click OK. The code is execute before the frame is displayed.
Open Flash CS3 and from the Welcome screen, choose Flash File (ActionScript 3.0) to create a new movie. The newly improved UI components can be used only in ActionScript 3-based Flash projects. In the Property inspector, set the frame rate to 30 fps. You can leave the Size and Background color of the movie at their default values. Save the file somewhere on your hard drive as textSizer.fla.
6. Make sure you have locked the scrollarea layer and have made it invisible (click the dot under the eye icon next to the layer). Now select the text layer and the text you have placed in it. Convert this text into a movie clip (press F8 on your keyboard). You may need to unlock this layer to select the text. In the Movie Clip options select the MovieClip radio button and name it scrolltext, then hit OK. Now your text box is a MovieClip . Now in the properties window of the MovieClip, name it scroll_text in the instance name field, then lock the layer once again.
Note: with Flash MX it is a lot easier to create scrolling text. Position a multiline text box on the stage, and give it an INSTANCE name. Next open up the components area, and find the Flash components that come with Flash MX. Inside you will see a Scroll Bar component, simply drag and drop this onto your text box. Add some text and test.
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash. You may get Flash Designer here.
2. Type some text in the first layer with name 'Text Layer'. On frame 25 click f6 and then type some other text with some other color on some different position.
b) Now in the timeline for the text - add a 'place' action on frame 0 and double click on frame 61. This will add a 'move' action to the timeline. Click the first frame of the move action then from the top menu of swish choose: view/preview frame, and then drag your text up until the last line of text is just inside of the masked rectangle. Click the transform tab on the properties box and change the 'X' value at the end of the effect to be the same as the 'X' value from the beginning of the effect. This will keep the scrolling effect from moving to the side while in action.
First we will have to type in the text we want to add this effect to, you can find what ever interesting font you want in the properties panel.
add user input form to movie, static text, input text, dynamic textfield to display message, LoadVars and PHP code to send email, set tab order, set focus on form entry
I won't go into explaining how to do this, because there already is an in-depth tutorial about the basics of making a flash ad banner, where every detail you need to know about this is layed out clearly.
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the standard technology used to format the presentation of web pages. It could also be used to style HTML formatted text in Flash so that you could update the formatting dynamically by editing your CSS file without going back to the source FLA. CSS also gives us greater control over the way our text is formatted and allows us to customize our styling in ways that are not possible using HTML on its own (eg. changing the color of text links). The text displayed in the following Flash movie is loaded from an external text file and its formatting is configured by an external CSS file. This tutorial shall teach you how to create this sort of movie.
Select File > Import > Import to Stage, or press Control+R. In the Import dialog box that appears, browse to the folder containing the image you've just downloaded (Header-Background.jpg), select it and click Open.
Now I recorded it, so you can watch a video tutorial, on how to make this great text effect in flash.
2) Make sure your viewing the components area, if you can not locate this click on Window at the top of your screen and check "Components".
2. In the layers panel lock the text layer so we don't mess something up in it, now make another layer beneath it.
1. First of we start by typing in the text we want to add this effect to, (use black color). In the layers panel name the layer "mask"
6. For the text1 layer drag the keyframe to frame 21, so the letter first appears when the effect is done, as shown below.
Let's have a look at what we will create:
Now click on your document and start typing in the box that appears.
1. Create a new FLA 2. Create a text field, make it dynamic and in the instance name field enter "myText". (fig1) fig1
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
Execution of the function
View > Rulers
You will create an animation similar to the following animation:
Of course, Flash MX doesn't make it that easy to create a text scroller. That's why this tutorial exists. The following is an example of the text scroller you will create by following my instructions:
This Flash tutorial is presented in a step-by-step format. Feel free to use your own settings when it comes to background and text colour. I will only show what I used.
Morphing Effect
The Font Symbol Properties should pop-up. Simply select the font you want to use from the drop down menu, you should not be bothered by the other attributes as they do not really matter. I am choosing the Windows Vista font Calibri, you can pick whatever font you want to use.
In an empty folder, create a Flash Movie and name it Load Text. Create a text file and name it mytext, both files have to be in the same folder.
In the Outline panel, right-click on the text object and select Copy Object. Then, use the Edit menu and select Paste in Place. You should now have two text objects at the exact same location on the Stage.
9) Copy this object and paste it in place. Use the transform panel to change its height to 24.
We are going to be working with a lot of area that isn't on the stage, so it will make your life easier if you change the viewing area to 50% to shrink the Stage and show more of the "imaginary" Flash Stage.
1. Create a new flash document and save it as smokeTextEffect.fla. Go then to Modify >> Document (Ctrl+J) and set dimensions 300x200.
In Option section, click this button and you will open a pop-up. Click your mouse on the left picture to select a transparent color. Drag Tolerance slide bar to adjust the tolerance. Drag the Alpha slider to adjust the alpha attribute. Click OK to return to the logo setting.
The first step is to create your text. So, with the text tool click and type in your text.
026 Beginners Flash Compatibility: MX 2004 (Principles and ActionScript are the same in Flash MX and Flash 5)
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