Re: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread James Newton
On 6/1/05 8:05 PM, "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The alpha in the copy is a bit off from the original, though. The image > I used was a wheelbarrow, with a shadow in the alpha channel. The shadow > was copied, but it's several shades lighter than the original. Hi Kerry, Ink? If y

RE: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Hi Kerry, > > Yes, but you need to set the stage's bgColor momentarily to > black and then to white, so a flash may occur. > > Basically, you set the visibility of any overlapping sprite > to FALSE, then use the handler below to generate an > alpha-enabled image of the stage area correspondi

X-Post - Firefly Xtra Released - CD and DVD burning in Director

2005-06-01 Thread Chuck Neal
June 1, 2005, Atlanta, GA. MediaMacros, Inc. and Ingeniak are pleased to announce the release of the Firefly Xtra for Macromedia Director. Firefly opens up the world of disc burning to developers, allowing them to incorporate advanced backup, burning, and creation abilities to their applicati

RE: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread Kerry Thompson
> Hi Kerry, > > Yes, but you need to set the stage's bgColor momentarily to > black and then to white, so a flash may occur. > > Basically, you set the visibility of any overlapping sprite > to FALSE, then use the handler below to generate an > alpha-enabled image of the stage area correspondi

RE: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread Kerry Thompson
> you can use the picture-property of the castmember of that sprite, as > long as the sprite is not field, quicktime or some others. Thanks, Arjen. Unfortunately, that wouldn't preserve the sprite properties like rotation. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to ch

Re: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread Buzz Kettles
(the stage).image.crop(theSprite.rect) At 12:15 PM -0400 6/1/05, you wrote: Is there a way to get the image of a sprite? I have the DirectImage Xtra, but it looks like I can only get the image of the stage or a member. I need to get a sprite's image, with its rotation, transparency, scaling--al

Re: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread James Newton
On 6/1/05 5:15 PM, "Kerry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to get the image of a sprite? > > I have the DirectImage Xtra, but it looks like I can only get the image > of the stage or a member. I need to get a sprite's image, with its > rotation, transparency, scaling--all the

Re: Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread arjen
you can use the picture-property of the castmember of that sprite, as long as the sprite is not field, quicktime or some others. gr arri On 01 jun 2005, at 18:15, Kerry Thompson wrote: Is there a way to get the image of a sprite? I have the DirectImage Xtra, but it looks like I can only get

Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread Kerry Thompson
Is there a way to get the image of a sprite? I have the DirectImage Xtra, but it looks like I can only get the image of the stage or a member. I need to get a sprite's image, with its rotation, transparency, scaling--all the tricks you can do with sprites. Oh, yes, I need to preserve the alpha as

Re: Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 01.06.2005 um 17:43 schrieb Bryan Lowes: If you are ever in Philadelphia please email me, I owe you a drink! I will do that, but don't worry, I am very, very far away from Philadelphia and director jobs do not pay much these days, so I don't know, when I can make the journey :-)

Re: Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Bryan Lowes
Alright, time for my humility to kick in! Alex...You were exactly right - I was exactly wrong! The .dcr filetype had it's mime set on my server but the .cct did not. I would not have thought to look for this if you had not suggested it. If you are ever in Philadelphia please email me, I owe y

Re: Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Bryan Lowes
Thanks Alex...I have opened a support ticket to make sure that these settings are in effect but I have tested this situation on 3 different shared hosting servers (from different providers) and I am getting it in all locations. Based on that I would guess that this is not the problem, but it c

Re: Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Bryan Lowes
Yes, and I was using netdone() to test that is was loaded before moving into the movie that calls it. h.still working on it...I'll let you all know if I come up with something. Thanks again, any other suggestions are appreciated. Bryan From: Buzz Kettles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-T

Re: Shockwave and External Casts issue

2005-06-01 Thread Alex da Franca
Am 01.06.2005 um 04:25 schrieb Bryan Lowes: Thanks again! If you have any further suggestions I would appreciate them very much. it looks like the server isn't aware of the mime type for the cct. AFAIK at least on some windows servers you get a file not found, if the extension isn't se

Re: why does this script get instantiated...

2005-06-01 Thread arjen
hi list. sorry for the dispear-mial, i just found a solution, but still don't understand the problem because: - yes the script is a parent-script - the on new handler isn't called anywhere. - i erase/void all objects on stopmovie (and parentscripts have a destroy-handler, so that they clear-up

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2005-06-01 Thread michael malinowski
does anyone know an admin's email so i can get unsubscribed, none of the options i have tried up till now have worked and i no longer work in lingo. Thanks Mike ___ Mike Malinowski XSI Character Rigger - Animal Logic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to chang

RE: why does this script get instantiated...

2005-06-01 Thread Johan Verhoeven
Isn't the script already in memory from the previous run? Globals are kept when start/stopping in authoring mode. This can cause such 'unexplainable' behaviour sometimes. Add this to your movie script to prevent this from happening on stopmovie clearglobals() end -Oorspronkelijk be