animation leaves a trail

[boyfromoz]

I'm new to flash, building an intro page.

I have some animated text, but the effect of my movie leaves a trail after its is finished, nad my movie in general is noticeable as an object.

Why is it so?

http://www.equatorhomewares.com.au/

 

[coldfused]

i don't understand your question..that effect is set up to do that..and if your saying it leaves aditional trails behind the effect, well it looks fine over here.

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[boyfromoz]

After theeffect is finished, the flashy parts of the letters are set to an alpha of 0.

But I can still see them!

I want them GONE totally.

 

[coldfused]

like i said looks fine o me..i see nothing left behind..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[boyfromoz]

I'm totally not tripping out.

I screen dumped and added pointers to show the bits that stay on the screen. i want the equator writing to be all that is left after the effect, not this ghosty bit behind it as well.

 

[wangbar]

That's not a trail left behind by the animation it's the bounding box of the clip - I assume that this animation was imported into the movie? If so then what you're seeing is the dithering pattern as Flash tries to reconcile a "transparent" background on the clip with the background colour of the movie. It happens all the time, here's how to get rid of it...

Go to the Flash colour mixer, choose RGB then change your background colour to the closest colour which is a multiple of 16 (change each of the R,G and B values). So if your original colour was something like 211,111,132 you'd tweak it to become 208,112,128 and the dithering artifacts should vanish.

By the way this only works if your display settings are set to 24 or 32 bit colour - at 16 bit colour they will still be there.

 

[coldfused]

why can't i see them?.

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[wangbar]

It's really faint Carl, look for an off-white colour filling the bounding box of the clip (the arrows are pointing at the corners) - depending how your PC and monitor are set up you may not see it (it's less obvious if you have your settings on "true colour" for instance and more obvious if you have things set to 256 colours only).

 

[coldfused]

yeh mine are set to true color..i guess i can kind of see it..but only because i know it's there now..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[WhiteTiger]

Yea, mine does that too...tried setting something totally transparent, and it never goes...you kind of see a patterned and lighter version of whats behind it...weird...and the only real way to get rid of it, is to get rid of it. (if its totally transparent...) Regards,
Anthny
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It's really kind of funny when you get helped by a wang. (As in WANGBAR you sicko!)

 

[boyfromoz]

Wangbar, its both the flary bits that leave a trail, and the boundary of the clip itself. The flaring effect leaves a mark, and the bounrday of the clip is not seemless either, regardlss that it is supposed to be the same colour as my page background.

The movie was not imported into flash, it was built entirely from within flash.

I'll have a go at the rbg thing.