Heart Beat Monitor

[Witch Dr.]

I was wondering if anyone could help or even if it is possible to make a heart beat monitor you know the flatline things then you get bumps don't know how to really explain it but if someone could help a newbie it would be greatly appreciated ;

[jaygemson]

Would it be better to use Flash for this, as opposed to Swish?

[Pretender84]

i made an animated GIF of one and then split each frame.

[jaygemson]

Would it not be wasteful to place frame-by-frame GIF images into a flash movie?

That's kinda going against the Vector-based structure of Flash where it draws everything rather than laying up images.

[GI Joe]

Hi

I did this in Flash which might be the effect you need:

http://www.hafberg.com/map.swf

I don't know enough about swish to know if its possible with that programme. Give me a shout if you need instructions.

[Witch Dr.]

Yeah it probably would be better to use flash but I'm not quite that good with it so I figured there might be a way with swish just cause I know the program better.

Originally posted by jaygemson
Would it be better to use Flash for this, as opposed to Swish?

[Witch Dr.]

It's close thanks but I'm looking more like the hospital monitor you see on tv and stuff where the line goes accross the sreen and beeps when theirs a heart beat

Originally posted by GI Joe
Hi

I did this in Flash which might be the effect you need:

http://www.hafberg.com/map.swf

I don't know enough about swish to know if its possible with that programme. Give me a shout if you need instructions.

[jaygemson]

As far as I know, Swish is perfect for text effects. However, your problem looks a-kin to some shape and motion tweening in Flash.

I may have a go at producing the effect you want later on

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Witch Dr.
[B]Yeah it probably would be better to use flash but I'm not quite that good with it so I figured there might be a way with swish just cause I know the program better.

[GI Joe]

jaygemson

In answer to your email. The map effect could serve for a heartbeat trace. The effect is quite simple. The map is a line drawing used as a mask layer.

Underneath it is a couple of motion tweened circles which produce the radar sweep and the persistance following it. There's also another circle above the map to look like the radar wave front.

There are various keyframes on the layers to allow for different levels of alpha as the wave passes. It took a bit of tweeking to get the right effect is all.

To do a heartbeat, I would just make a line instead of a map. If you wanted the trace to alter - to stimulate a heart attack -I'd just make the line a separate movie with different lines and I'd use some frame or button action to more from frame to frame.

Hope that helps

[jaygemson]

Sounds like a cunning plan! I can see how that works

In that case I think the hardest task I have is drawing an accurate pulse!

Anyone got a picture?

[robzeng]

Hi,

is this the basic idea of what your looking for?:

http://www.robzeng.de/heartbeat/

[Witch Dr.]

Yeah thats pretty much the idea. How did you do it? Did you use Swish or Flash?

Originally posted by robzeng
Hi,

is this the basic idea of what your looking for?:

http://www.robzeng.de/heartbeat/

[robzeng]

This is Swish, give me your Email adress and i'll mail you the file.
It is very simple, gotta be, i have only been swishing for 4 days now :-))

[purge]

http://www.soapdisco.com/md/


the preloader is a heart beat monitor...

[Witch Dr.]

Did you make it with flash? Or did you download it somewhere?

Originally posted by purge
http://www.soapdisco.com/md/


the preloader is a heart beat monitor...

[purge]

made it with swish