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    Skewed Dynamic Text?

    Hiya, wonderin' if anyone can help me with this...

    I'm creating text that sits on one side of a tilted cube. The text needs to look as if it is skewed (to keep the illusion of 3D). The only way I can get it right is by breaking apart the text and doing a manual distort and skew. But I need to keep the text together as I'll be changing it dynamically.

    Rotating and resizing the text box just makes it look weird.

    I'm not sure if there is a solution.... unless someone has any ideas?

    Thanks in advance....

    Solange.
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    you did not mention what software you are using but I am going to assume Flash.

    You should not need to break the text, just use the skew tool in Flash and use it on the whole dynamic textbox.

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    Yep, using Flash MX.

    The text is skewed, but a slight deformation is needed on the text box as well. Distort & envelope functions aren't available for text boxes...
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    ah. I am not much of an expert on Flash but a quick look in Google -- these may help?
    - linky 1
    - linky 2
    - linky 3
    - linky 4

    Hope this helps.
    Last edited by tonytryout; 02-26-2005 at 03:46 PM.

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    thanks for the links, mate.

    the forth link seemed interesting... using the actionscript _xscale property to deform a movieclip with a text box in. I think it'll be trial and error to get it right, but of all the limited solutions, I think that's the only one that can do the job.

    all I wanted was to create the effect of sitting at an angle whilst viewing writing on a television set, but with the text running dynamically.

    guess there's no simple way, but that links's def. a good start.

    thanks again,

    Solange.
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