Re: FLASH: EMERGENCY transparency!

[Peggi & Ben Rodgers]

They could be doing this with a mask and moving the text around under the 

mask.


But, if you want to do an Alpha fade on text, create your text as a symbol 

(these are Flash 4 instructions, I haven't delved into Flash 5 yet) - it 

won't work as plain text.  Right click on the text and you'll get a box 

with two tabs.  Choose the "Color Effect" tab and pick "alpha" from the 

pull down menu.  You can then set the percentage of transparency.  You will 

want to create a tween so you have a beginning symbol that has an alpha 

setting of 100% and an ending symbol with an alpha setting of something 

less than that (or visa versa).  If you want to move it across the page as 

it fades, simply set your tween that way.


Hope this helps,


Peggi


At 03:13 PM 12/22/00 -0500,

MECCA17aol [dot] com

 wrote:

>I want to create a ad banner... it will be a white banner on a white

>background... instead of having the text scroll in from the side and you can

>tell that it came in from a blocky border, I want to create a white to

>transparency fade on either side so it looks like the text FADES in... if you

>have no idea what I'm talking about, please look at:

>

>sega.com

>

>and on their site you'll see the same thing happening instead in black.. the

>text looks like it FADES into the flash header at the top.

>

>does anyone know how to use a gradient that goes from white to transparent in

>flash layers???

>

>PLEASE help... need to be done in an hour.

>

>Thanks

>

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