Custom Anti-Alias Text not animating in smoothly

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10-02-2013, 07:18 AM
KJoe

Custom Anti-Alias Text not animating in smoothly

I am having an issue with a font animating in from 0% - 100% smoothly. This issue is caused by it being custom anti-aliased, the font (Helvetica Neue-Light) has a slight thickness applied which it has to for font legability reasons. Due to file size restrictions I can't use a tween engine so can only use standard actionscript or tweening. I have tried both but neither works. I can't bitmap the text neither as it loses it's custom anti-aliasing.

Any advice on how to resolve this would be much appreciated.
10-02-2013, 09:20 AM
fruitbeard

Hi,

Dies this help you at all, embed the font and try

PHP Code:

import mx.transitions.*; import mx.transitions.easing.*; myText.antiAliasType = "advanced"; var fontTween = new Tween(myText, "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, 2, true);
10-02-2013, 10:10 AM
KJoe

Quote:

Originally Posted by fruitbeard

Hi,

Dies this help you at all, embed the font and try

PHP Code:

import mx.transitions.*; import mx.transitions.easing.*; myText.antiAliasType = "advanced"; var fontTween = new Tween(myText, "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, 2, true);

Thanks for your help. This works in in the normal sense of fading text in. However the issue relates to a custom anti-alias being applied to a font, say the font being made thicker than normal. It still jumps on the final frame of fading in. I have had to cheat around this and place a graphic overlay on top of the static text and fade that out, thus bringing the text in without any glitch.
10-02-2013, 10:40 AM
fruitbeard

Hi,

Not sure if that meant you got it to work or not!
Try attaching your fla or making a link to it, even a smaller file with the issue at hand.

Maybe zip up the font too, as I'm not sure if I have the correct font, I have Helvetica Neue light, maybe different one though!!
10-03-2013, 12:02 PM
KJoe

Quote:

Originally Posted by fruitbeard

Hi,

Not sure if that meant you got it to work or not!
Try attaching your fla or making a link to it, even a smaller file with the issue at hand.

Maybe zip up the font too, as I'm not sure if I have the correct font, I have Helvetica Neue light, maybe different one though!!

Thanks, but I 'have' resolved this. I found it easier to fade out a segment of background over the top of the text. The best solution would have been to use a tween engine such as greensock but due to file size restrictions I was unable to use this.