Text animation in Flash 5

[webmaster999]

Hey all!

I need help figuring out how to animate text in Flash 5. I have a sentence, say 'Good Morning! Thanks for visiting this website!', and I want it to fly in and move around a bit and then skew and kinda disappear out.

What I am trying to say is that I am wondering how to animate the text really professional looking. All I can figure out is to make them each individually and animate them on 300 million layers. Not very time saving....

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am on a tight time schedule as I am network administrator and do the website on the side - I need a magic bullet to get this done quick with minimum effort. Surely Flash has thought of this and I just haven't found it yet.

Thanks again.

Matt

 

[oldnewbie]

You can simply type in a static text like "'Good Morning! Thanks for visiting this website!", turn it into a symbol, motion tween it, shape tween it, tint it, play with it's opacity... Etc... Etc...

You can search for text effects tutorials such as these:

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Text_Effects/

http://www.virtual-fx.net/tutorials/tutresults.php?level=Text Effects

http://www.flashplanet.com/body_effects.html

Or you can have a look at these 3rd party stuff & plug-ins.
Of which I find Flax the best!

http://www.wildform.com/swfx/index.php?sid=N2CI-1BHP-3c32bc2aaca64

http://www.flashkit.com/textfx/start.shtml

http://www.goldshell.com/flax/

http://www.swishzone.com/

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[webmaster999]

Thanks a ton! A+, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE Windows NT 4.0, MCSE Windows 2000 Early Acheiver with Security Emphasis

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[webmaster999]

But what if I wanted to animate only certain letters instead of the whole text block? A+, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE Windows NT 4.0, MCSE Windows 2000 Early Acheiver with Security Emphasis

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[coldfused]

then you have to do it your self..create your text..break it apart..tween your letter..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[oldnewbie]

Then you'll have to seperately... animate them on 300 million layers, although that seems a little too many layers for Flash to handle! Guess you better limit the lenght of your text, if you're going to go that way about!

Regards,

ldnewbie