Shining Text Effect??

[liam]

Masks, you roffle my waffle lickle boy.

Its a tint I think, or a gradient. Not sure what you're after.

[GeoffCLogan]

I'm pretty sure you just use a parallelogram with an alpha of around 50 and use a mask and tween it across the object.

[Siggy0501]

something along those lines. mask a shimmer. but be more specific. you could want to do some light effects, not sure.

[Epica]

At 5/3/05 03:47 PM, CalumT wrote: Dose anyone know how to pull of the effect where there is a normal peice of text and then a yellow kind of shimmer goes over the text. Its hard to explain, If I find an example ill post it. Im pritty sure its something todo with masks, im not sure.
Thanks,
CalumT

yeh i no,gets a life and fuck off worrying about "yellow text" so fuck off u fat ugly bastard and go try and work on a love life a fuckin REAL relationship ,get a life u ugly prat
, n by the way every1 else i have seen him, he is one ugly fuck!

[Xurch]

Where are u from in the Uk?

[BlackmarketKraig]

Do you mean when the shimmer of light affects only the text?

If so; break the test you want to use down all the way to it's base level and turn that layer into a mask.

In the masked layer create the effect you want (a shimmer is usually a radial gradient with the center the light color you want and the outer color set to 0% alpha) and animate it (tween the alpha gradient graphic you made across the text.
If you want to have the text always visible and not just the shimmer thing make sore you have either the same text in a lower layer or a color fill in another layer that is also masked under the original text mask...

Does that make sense, I'm not very good at explaining these things...

Good luck.

[BlackmarketKraig]

Ugh... sorry about all the typos...

You get the idea though, right?

[BlackmarketKraig]

You're welcome.

Creative masking can produce some really awesome effects in a flash movie.

Good luck on your project. :D