Transparacy change 1

[Guest_imported]

hi,

i'm attending an multimedia producer class and our first project is to create a animation (without using lingo).
for my first scene, i created a whole city and i want it to have a day/night change. everything works fine, except: in order to darken the sky (imported psd-file, 32bit)i make the sky-spirte become transparent (there's a black rectangle behind it). but i have major slowdowns in the rest of animation now. is there sombody with a good idea to achieve the same result (without lingo!) it's either this - or i'll probably have to skip the whole scene, as the message depends on the day/night change. i'd be grateful for any help.
tnx
adrian

 

[Horrid]

Try an overlay that isn't 32 bit ie use the lowest bit depth cast member you can and put it over the part you want to darken, give it the correct color, start it transparent and bring it up to visible.

Basically its exactly what you have done just you fade the other bit in. If you use layering to your advantage you can keep your current rectangle and fade that in rather than fade your sky out.

The other (not nice ugly) way is lots of sky images that you switch.

 

[eladi]

hei horrid,

sorry to not check back on you earlier. was kind of a crazy time with the project.

i tried it your way, just to find out that i doesn't work with a blend-effect. there were several other animatied objects (film loops) on the stage at the same time...and director simply couldn't deal with it anymore. just in case you wanna know, here's the way i eventually did it.

as it was a self-illustrated movie, i was able to replace the sky-jpg with a bitmap created in director. this bitmap had a gradient from day-blue to night-blue. so i moved this object around. not really my preffered result...but it worked.

tnx for you help.
adrian