thanks for your answers, i decided to go the frame by frame animation, as
carl suggested. I resisted to do it because i thought it ought to be a
better way, but finally decided to take the easy -not that easy really- way
and do it frame by frame.
Thanks anyway your ideas helped decide which way to go
Diego
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From: "Carl West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Drawing curves on the fly


> Diego Landro wrote:
>
> > ...  i have two maps, onw with roads and onw without and i thought
Director
> > should have some sort of masking like after effects, but the only mask
> > effect i could find was mask ink which i can´t vary through time.
>
> You want to work with the alpha channel of whichever map is on top.
> Use copy pixels to paint in the roads if they're on top or paint out the
> plain map if it is on top.
>
> If this is just a straight animation you could just chop up the art work
> and do it in the score. It bypasses a lot of elegant Lingo, and makes it
> hard to edit, but if you KNOW for sure what the animation will look like
> you can do it that way. The roots of MacroMind Director lie in frame
> animation. Sometimes it's easiest to go back to the roots.
>
>
>
> -- 
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