Perspective for Text

[dcahall]

Anyone have a good way to add perspective to text? I like the way I can add some perspective to an object I draw but I want to have a rounded corner rectangle that I have added perspective to as the backgound for some text that I also want to be in the same perspective. In essence, I have created a "billboard" that I then want to show in a frame with some perspective but can not do it with KM.

[docree]

I may have something you can use...
It's part of my 3D / perspective ingine.

But it does depend on if you want animation, the shape of
your billboard, and the contents of the billboard...

Which kind of perspective would you like?
F is front B is back.

A: F------B

B: B------F

C:
B
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F

D:
F
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B
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I'm not quite ready to release the whole thing...
DocRee

Oh yeah, Long time no see. I moved across country. From Chicago area to GA. I'm almost in FL.

[dcahall]

If I understand your post correctly, either A or B is fine. However any of the 4 would be better than what I a have right now.

[docree]

OK
I will attach a zip.
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Notes:
This is done using some slightly advanced masking and duplication.
The green line is the mask.
Place the contents in the "cont" movieclip.
And, there are further instructions within the action script.

The layout is
Main Movie: Action Script, Ray MC
---Ray MC: Cont MC, mask line
------Cont MC: Content being rendered.

Also, it takes a moment to initialise/load.
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[A play, show at a fair, or throw some
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Thanks
DocRee

[dcahall]

I am not very familiar with ActionScript so I do not really know what to do. I tried just running the fun file but nothing happened.

[docree]

Do you mean, the fun file did not load in KoolMoves?
I'll see about getting this thing working...
Might take a bit, though.
DocRee

[dcahall]

Yes the fun file loaded. I was not sure if there was supposed to be some animation or what. When I look at the image and where it is located before I run the file and after, I do not fully understand what I am seeing.

[docree]

If you play the fun file, without changing anything, it should show the pig's picture,
scaled to the side appearing smaller in the distance.

If it is broken then...
You may need to change your export settings to flash version 5 or 6.
6 allows you to compress the final swf.

It also seems that adding a swf to the content MC breaks it.
So, a work around is to import your animation as a movieclip.

I would like to see this working for anyone else but me.
Doc'Ree
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I would also be willing to take a look at the content you want to render.
That way I can see what is going wrong.

[Bob Hartzell]

Pertaining to the original title of the thread, perspective can only be applied to non-symbol shapes because it is not a transform that can be described by a simple 2 x 2 matrix. There is some name for this type of transform but I don't remember what it is. To apply it to text requires that the text be transformed into shapes with points using menu bar Transform.

[dcahall]

Actually, this permitted me to do what I wanted to do. I created a background, created some text and transformed it, then I grouped it with the background and added perspective and now it looks the way I wanted it to.

Thanks for the tip.......there is so much I still need to learn about how the product works........