Re: FLASH: perspective tool

[John Dowdell]

At 5:04 AM 4/17/0, STANGELAND H.K wrote:

> does anyone know how to achieve the same effect as

> the perspective tool in fex photoshop, in flash?


Hmm, sorry, I think this would be difficult to do. If you download the SWF

4.0 file format specification, then it describes what type of matrix

operations are available:

...//SWF_File_Format_Docs/BasicTypes.html#h3MatrixValues


There's translation and scaling in X and Y, and some skewing, but we don't

seem to have perspective transforms or 4-point transforms ("quads") in the

file format itself. From my understanding, this would imply that a

perspective transform would have to be described as a new symbol.  Might as

well use FreeHand to create multiple objects using the same perspective

system then.


If you're instead trying to animate a perspective transform, then I'd

likely transform a copy of the art as a reference layer when using

shape-tweening. This would be more efficient than sending along each step

of the animation as a new symbol.


Could you drop a note to

wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com

, saying that you'd like

the file format and player to support more types of transforms in the

future, please? That's one way folks here gauge how people prioritize

future areas of work, thanks in advance.


jd






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