Animation Question

[JustJon]

Hi,

I'm working on a project at the moment that requires me to produce an abstract animation that is constantly changing shape, similar to a wave form produced by audio. The animation also needs to respond to either mouse movement or some control sliders that I will provide. I need to to this using Director. Does anyone know of any good tutorials about how to make these sort of animations (or tips, or advice, or good websites or resources to look at). Any help would be much appreciated as I don't know where to start.

Thanks in advance.

 

[qazs]

Hi,
I did something similar quite a while back using vector shapes.
Not sure if this is what u are looking for, but pls take a look:

http://ncy.freeunixhost.com/works/vectorwave.htm

If u want the source file just let me know.

 

[quest00]

hi gazs,
I am interested in how you did the vector shape animation ,I wonder how you are able to change the form of a determined vector shape ,(normaly you cant manualy change it in director) unles that you use more castmembers with different vector shapes .
I would be pleased if you can explaine how you did it
best regards
Paul

 

[qazs]

You can change it. Use vertexList.
First, you get the vertexList of your vector shape.
Then you create a duplicate of the vertexList, after which
you can do whatever you like with the duplicated vertexlist.
After that, set the cast member's vertextList to your duplicated vertexList.

 

[quest00]

gazs thanks for you re respond,
i experimented a bit with the scripting and some how it works . I would have more questions about .
but in the first place i would like to render it as a avi
but i found out ,that it only can be saved as a shockwave movie
or is there a possible way to render the changing shape to an avi ?
paul

 

[qazs]

Sorry for the late response.
I don't think u can render it as an avi file.
Maybe you can try capturing the shockwave movie with some software like Camedia.
What it does is just capture whatever thats on your screen.