Inside each of those textclips in my example is a frame at the end with that same textfield duplicated...when you make copies and change the text...make sure each end frame has the same text as the other in each. It's a quickie but yours with my best wishes dude.
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Last edited by Chris_Seahorn; 06-24-2006 at 07:49 AM.
My sincerest gratitude is yours, my friend. I hope that one day I may be able to return the favor...
Thank you,
Paul Stoessel
Originally Posted by Chris_Seahorn
Inside each of those textclips in my example is a frame at the end with that same textfield duplicated...when you make copies and change the text...make sure each end frame has the same text as the other in each. It's a quickie but yours with my best wishes dude.
If I may try to translate to English what you did in that script, it looks like you created a line of text on a child movie clip and then added the Ripple motion script TO the child clip FROM the parent clip. The result is a Ripple effect on the entire line of text as a single object. This is good and useful, but now I would like to go one step further.
This is what I am trying to do:
1) After launching KoolMoves, select the Text tool and create a line of text.
2) Double-click on the text and add the Ripple motion effect.
3) Select "Play movie in browser" and observe how the effect is applied to the individual characters one-by-one, rather than the entire line of text at once.
4) Have that clip fade out, add another line of text the same way, and so on.
At first, I thought the way to do this was to create child clips within the parent clips. If I wanted three different lines of text, then I would have three child clips; each having their own line of text with a Ripple effect applied from the child clip properties, not the parent, so as to have the Ripple effect applied to each individual letter in the sentence. If the Ripple effect is applied to the child clip from the parent, the parent treats the line of text as a single object - not multiple objects.
I'm sure that this is clear as mud now. I hope that I articulated the situation well enough. Please see the attached .fun movie for an example. Thanks, and the offer of lunch is still open...
Regards,
Paul Stoessel
Originally Posted by Chris_Seahorn
Glad to help Paul. Play around with the numbers and have fun!
Now the counter script is attached to mc1 which spans all frames. It maintains the countdown so set the counter to whatever value fits after you get a ripple setting you like. I started at 150 but adjust up or down as needed by changing the 2 lines that say 150. If you add more text to new frames...be sure to add a dot for mc1 in that frame so it is always in the timeline
Motion scripts cannot be applied to dynamic text. You might try putting the dynamic text inside a movie clip and applying the effect to the movie clip.