Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Serge Jespers
This is what I'm trying to accomplish: http://webkitchen.be/downloads/ scribble.jpg Thanks for your help, Serge Can you give us an example of the visual effect you're looking for? The simplest I can think of is a kind of 'ribbon' shape, like an oval but with two ends crossing over - this

Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Danny Kodicek
This is what I'm trying to accomplish: http://webkitchen.be/downloads/ scribble.jpg Thanks for your help, Serge Okay. In that case I think you're best off drawing an ordinary ellipse (or possibly a rounded rectangle) but adding some error factor. If you're starting from an ellipse, here's

Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Danny Kodicek
Right... That does make sense except for the draw the point... Shouldn't that have an X and Y coordinate? It does: it's the sum of two other points with an x and y coordinate. I'm mostly a Director person so these vector sums are done natively: Flash doesn't do anything so useful. But

Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Sander
Are you trying to position an animated movieClip Serge, or use the drawing API to draw scribbles? Because it sound like the suggestions you're getting are the latter solution. S On 28 Dec 2005, at 12:55, Serge Jespers wrote: Hey guys, I'm kinda stuck here... so any help is appreciated.

Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Danny Kodicek
One final thought and then I'll shut up. If you want to make your scribble smoother, you can make the randomness 'second-order'. That is, instead of randomising the change to the error factor, you could randomise the *rate* of change of the error factor. So you now keep track of two values,

Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Serge Jespers
It's supposed to be the drawing API ;-) Positioning an animated MC would be the easy way and I always seem to go for the not so easy way ;-) I got this far (ahum) http://webkitchen.be/downloads/scribble.swf And now I need a mathematician to fix the coordinates :p Obviously, this is totally

RE: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Andreas Weber
: Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval It's supposed to be the drawing API ;-) Positioning an animated MC would be the easy way and I always seem to go for the not so easy way ;-) I got this far (ahum) http://webkitchen.be/downloads/scribble.swf And now I need a mathematician to fix

Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Serge Jespers
Yeah I also thought about doing pre-recorded paths but I though it was gonna look cooler if it were totally random :-) What sample are you referring to? 'cause my stuff is still online ;-) S The sample you originally posted is not accessible anymore, so my take on this might be off-base:

RE: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval

2005-12-28 Thread Andreas Weber
Weber motiondraw.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Serge Jespers Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:59 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] scribbling an oval Yeah I also thought about doing pre-recorded paths but I