ripple effect?

[carpeliam]

I'd like to make a ripple effect. Now I haven't seen this before, and my feeble flash mind would think it couldn't be done, but if there's anything I know about flash... it's that EVERYTHING can be done, it's just a matter of creativity. So... how might I go about making a ripple effect (preferably on text) in Flash? Thanks all... <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."

 

[nabeel]

hi there,<br><br>u can find this sample in flash sample, just go to help and then on samples there will be a sample of ripple effect.<br><br>otherwise there is just a simple rule that note in ripple a small circle goes big and then becomes transparent u could try this also, but it would take time.<br><br>

 

[carpeliam]

thanks.. what website are you referring to?<br><br>The ripples I've seen on most flash sites don't do exactly what I'd like them to do... mostly, they just look like somebody dropped a pebble on a pond. That's not what I'm after.. here's a better description.<br><br>say I have a black background, and grey-ish text. the text would undulate as if it were underwater... but I wouldn't want to see these defined concentric circles, all I want to see is textual distortion. I hope that gives a better description. <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.

 

[carpeliam]

here's somewhat of a GIF demo... something in between these two images:<br><br><img src=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/wave.gif><br><br><img

src=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/wave1.gif><br><br>hope

that helps... <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.

 

[Gasbag]

Hmm that's (hate to say this) impossible to do with coding. You can, of course, animate it by hand. I don't know the possibilties of Javascript in Flash, but i've seen it done in JavaScript (don't ask me how or where... :-(<br>I'd like to know how they did the &quot;distortion&quot; in the OV logo at <A HREF="

http://www.othervision.com"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.othervision.com</A>,

too. I think they animated it step by step.<br><br>Gasbag--&gt;<br><br>Gasbag's Gas-of-the-Day:<br><A HREF="

http://www.xs4all.nl/~enpho/d-coy/MainBox/Releases.htm"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.xs4all.nl/~enpho/d-coy/MainBox/Releases.htm</A>

 

[carpeliam]

looks like they used masking for part of it.. and for others, just changed the height (they gradually shrank it down to 0 height)...<br><br>thanks anyways. If anybody has any ideas.. please let me know. Thanks.. <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.

 

[1RobDog1]

Have you considered the morphing technique.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am only 1 year into flash and find it awesome to play with.&nbsp;&nbsp;I just recently started messing with morphing and you can do some amazing stuff with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;It just seems that this is one of them.&nbsp;&nbsp;I like challenges so I am going to attempt it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here is a quick version which needs some help but maybe you get the idea.<br><br>Here is the link:<br><A HREF="

http://www.masseydesigns.com/tempimages/textmorph.swf"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.masseydesigns.com/tempimages/textmorph.swf</A><br><br>Hope

this helped...

 

[Gasbag]

Eeew, ugly...<br><br>Check<br><A HREF="

http://www.xs4all.nl/~enpho/d-coy/Files/CoyLogo.swf"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.xs4all.nl/~enpho/d-coy/Files/CoyLogo.swf</A><br>for

a nice ShapeTween<br><br>Gasbag--&gt;<br><br>Gasbag's Gas-of-the-Day:<br>To morph something like THAT, you need more than 26 shape hints :-(

 

[fentron]

I find the easiest way to achieve the desired ripple effect of text is to export 5 or so frames of the ripple from illustrator (use the vector effects plug in), then use the shape moprphing option with shape hints.<br>The only problem with this is that it is very time consuming as each letter has to be done separately.<br>Alternatively you could use the new program 'swish' or 'swift', can't remember the exact name (only runsd on a pc)<br><br>good luck <br>f

 

[silverbullet]

Imotic,<br>I am not really sure how to do the ripple effect that you desire in flash without some really conplex masking or shape tweening.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have however seen at least one example of a ripple effect made by use of a java applet.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don't known if it is what you are looking for but here is the url: <A HREF="

http://www.demon.co.uk/davidg/lake.htm"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.demon.co.uk/davidg/lake.htm</A><br>Thanks,<br><br><br>Silverbullet.