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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > -- > > Carl West > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://carl.west.home.comcast.net > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
