smooth mouseover/off effects

[shoppingtom]

Hello, world!

Any idea how to implement a menu that will roll gracefully from mouseover to mouseout?

I set a word to scale to 1.25 over 1 sec on mouseover, and then scale back to 1 over 1 sec on mouseout, but if you just slide over the word without letting it slide smoothly all the way, it jumps to 1.25 and then back to 1.

I want it to scale to 1.25 over 1 sec, but start scaling back to 1 from wherever it is when you mouseout.

I would actually like to use the principle in a number of areas, but I'm working on a website navigation scheme right now.

Thanks for your help!

[shoppingtom]

Argh! I just ran into another place where I need to be able to do this. Have a movie or effect start, and then roll back gracefully when I mouseout.

I will email a picure of a cookie to whoever can help me out!

[zoranvedek]

On mosue over set your scale RATE. You'll want to put a failsafe in there using a vriable for scale(say 'x'), so that when it scales to a certain size you can stop it and set it there(if x=125 set scale to 125 set scale rate to 0). On mouseout do the opposite.............


-J

[shoppingtom]

Thanks for taking the time to help a newbie --

I've tried to do that, but I can't seem to get the "failsafe" loop part to work. In 3dfa, where do I do that?

I wrote the following "scripts" and attached them to the mouseover and out tabs of my text item:

MOUSEOVER
===========================
xsize = element ("Text 4").scale.x;
element ("Text 4").scale_rate.x = 15;
while (xsize <= 125)
{ xsize = element ("Text 4").scale.x; }
element ("Text 4").scale.x = 200;
element ("Text 4").scale_rate.x = 0;

MOUSEOUT
===========================
xsize = element ("Text 4").scale.x;
element ("Text 4").scale_rate.x = -15;
while (xsize >= 101)
{
xsize = element ("Text 4").scale.x;
}
element ("Text 4").scale_rate.x = 0;
============================

Maybe someone who knows something about how this all works can tell me why I get the "Breaking out of possible infinite loop" warning, and my text just keeps scaling forever? )

Thanks so much!

[blanius]

You mean like this:
Test

Source

What I did in the event for the text just set and unset the variable over to true or false.

Then in an action that is called once per frame I put

if (over&&mytext.scale.x<maxsize){
    mytext.scale_rate.x=50
    mytext.scale_rate.y=50
    }else{
    mytext.scale_rate.x=0
    mytext.scale_rate.y=0
    }
    
if (!over&&mytext.scale.x>minsize){
    mytext.scale_rate.x=-50
    mytext.scale_rate.y=-50
    }
    
if (!over&&mytext.scale.x<=minsize){
    mytext.scale_rate.x=0
    mytext.scale_rate.y=0
    } 

Oh and my start sctipt sets mytext to the element

mytext=element ("Text 133")
maxsize=125
minsize=100
over=false 

[shoppingtom]

Wow! That's exactly what I want to do. )

Thanks for the tremendous help!