Text color change effect

[blu3]

Hi,

I was wondering how is done the effect of the text color change where you have for example a letter 'A' which is for example blue and its color changes from left to right to let's say red color? I am not talking about a simple color tween when color of whole letter changes at the same time. There are tons of sites with this kind of effect, but i can't find the sample at the moment but i am sure you know what i mean. Do you have any idea how to accomplish this?

thanks,
best regards

[dan_hin]

do you mean a colour gradient tween?

[blu3]

No, that's not what I mean. Let's say you have letter 'A' in blue color and then letter color changes from left to right from blue to for example red. So color simply changes from left to right. Any ideas?

[neznein9]

You could do that with masking - wrap the text inside a sprite and use that sprite to mask a rectangle with the gradient in it, then just move the gradient inside rectangle using a shape tween (or make the rectangle twice as wide as the text and move the whole thing). One caveat - you'll need to embed the font and you have to set the mask in actionscript, just using the timeline masking won't work.

textWrapper.cacheAsBitmap = true;
gradientBox.cacheAsBitmap = true;
gradientBox.mask = textWrapper; 

[blu3]

Thanks neznein9 for suggestion, will try that

best regards