Star wars crawl - text scroller

[koit]

I have flash CS4 and I understand that you can "easily" replicate the star wars text scroll effect with the 3d tools.

http://www.creativepro.com/article/c...ing-text-flash

I have followed that tutorial to the best of my ability but no matter what I do, I cannot get the text to scroll into the distance, it just moves upwards.

Could some kind soul create a basic scroller for me so I can look at the example and learn from it.

Thanks ever so much

A frustrated Koit.

[koit]

Anyone please ?

[koit]

Please see the following link for my example - this is all I'm getting, can someone please help !!

http://www.highasakoit.co.uk/temp/attempt.fla

[5TonsOfFlax]

What player version are you publishing for?

[koit]

10, using CS4.

[5TonsOfFlax]

That seems right enough at least. I don't have the flash IDE so that tutorial and your fla are useless to me to try to reproduce your problem. I'm going to try to see if I can whip something up.

[5TonsOfFlax]

Here you go. No charge.

package 
{
	import flash.display.Bitmap;
	import flash.display.BitmapData;
	import flash.display.Graphics;
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.text.TextField;
	import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
	
	public class Main extends Sprite 
	{
		private var textContent:String = "Lorem ipsum \n"+
		"dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean " +
		"commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis " +
		"natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur " +
		"ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque " +
		"eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. " +
		"Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, " +
		"arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, " +
		"justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer " +
		"tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. " +
		"Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor " +
		"eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, " +
		"dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra " +
		"nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum. Aenean " +
		"imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur " +
		"ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui. Etiam rhoncus. " +
		"Maecenas tempus, tellus eget condimentum rhoncus, sem " +
		"quam semper libero, sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed " +
		"ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, " +
		"hendrerit id, lorem. Maecenas nec odio et ante tincidunt " +
		"tempus. Donec vitae sapien ut libero venenatis faucibus. " +
		"Nullam quis ante. Etiam sit amet orci eget eros faucibus " +
		"tincidunt. Duis leo. Sed fringilla mauris sit amet nibh. Donec " +
		"sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat, leo eget bibendum " +
		"sodales, augue velit cursus nunc."
										 
		private var tf:TextField;
		
		private var tilted:Sprite;
		
		private var step:Number = 1;
		
		public function Main():void 
		{
			if (stage) init();
			else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
		}
		
		private function init(e:Event = null):void 
		{
			removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
			// entry point
			drawStars();
			tilted = new Sprite();
			addChild(tilted);
			tilted.rotationX = -30;
			tf = new TextField();
			tf.width = 300;
			tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
			tf.wordWrap = true;
			tf.multiline = true;
			tf.text = textContent;
			tf.textColor = 0xffff00;

			tilted.x = (stage.stageWidth - tf.textWidth) / 2;
			tf.y = (stage.stageHeight);
			tilted.addChild(tf);
			
			addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollText);
		}
		
		private function drawStars():void {
			var w:int = stage.stageWidth;
			var h:int = stage.stageHeight;
			var starField:BitmapData = new BitmapData(w,h, false, 0x000000);
			for (var i:int = 0; i < 500; i++) {
				starField.setPixel(Math.floor(Math.random() * w), Math.floor(Math.random() * h), 0xffffff);
			}
			addChild(new Bitmap(starField));
		}
		
		private function scrollText(e:Event):void {
			tf.y -= step;
			
			//trace(tf.y);
			if (tf.y <= -1 * (tf.textHeight)) {
				tf.y = stage.stageHeight;
			}
		}
		
	}
	
}

[koit]

I thank you ever so much for your time and assistance.

However, this doesn't help my scenario really as I need it to function within the flash environment as an animation and NOT as as3 code.

You see, I want to span my anim across x amount of frames and then play around with different animations above and below etc.

I cannot learn from scripting as such hence why I was using that tutorial as it creates the effect using tweens and movie clips that i can see / build myself rather than as3 doing the donkey work.

In addition though, I did but try your code and it didn't seem to function as it threw up an output error.

I apologise for seeming ungrateful, this is certainly not my intention, I work a certain way, and that way is with visual animation.

[5TonsOfFlax]

Hopefully, someone else can help you then, since I don't know any of that.

If you just want to see it work, set your document class to Main. Actually, here. I've attached the a zip with the swf in it.

[koit]

Thanks - I tried to open that but just a black screen for me I'm afraid.

[koit]

Anyone, please !?!