How do you get the pixelated effect from VECTOR flash?

[ZeroKuhl]

In ISO games and several flash apps, I've noticed a great deal of the GUIs and scenes are created PIXELATED. I know how to acheive this effect in photoshop, but how do you create this old Atari game pixels with a vectoring program without a smooth antialias curve to your project?

Know what I mean?

~Zero

[fospher.com]

File>Import

[ZeroKuhl]

no...I mean how do you create a vector pixelated look inside of flash...not importing a bitmap from a paint program..

turn on grid and make grid 1px by 1px doesn't work with a snap to grid function...

using the square paint tool inside flash like a potato cutter is too lame...there must be a better way



is there an aftermarket program that takes your FLA or SWF and then pixelates the vector curves to blocks

[marmotte]

did you try to put that on the first frame of your movie?

_quality = "low"

> but it's maybe not as pixelisated as you want...

[fospher.com]

right click/properties on the image and then uncheck "allow smoothing"

[jonmack]

lol,
foshper he said NO raster graphics Can't do that to flash vectors.

[fospher.com]

ohh...vector. sorry man, it was over 2am when I was posting those, you think crrrrrazzy things at that time of night. well - you can export the vecror graphic as a bitmap, import it back, and then choose trace bitmap - and play around with the functions untill it looks more pixelated. And then as marmotte pointed out, set the quality to low.

[TiefighT]

Well, you can, to do it from scratch its just a matter of creating a vector square that is 1 pixel by 1 pixel, then copying and pasting it like a lego. Its kind of a pain, and usually slows flash down to a crawl since you end up with a crapload of shapes, so 95% of the time file->import is a much better solution.

The ONLY real upsides i've found to creating pixel art with vectors is that the end-result will be scaleable, and you can have limited control over colors and such through flash, but thats about it, and is usually not nearly enough to outweigh the downsides.

[SaphuA]

If you cant find a solution, you could always:

Draw the vector image,
File -> Export image -> 'Low DPI' (Dots Per Inch)
File -> New
File -> Import -> 'Locate image'

If you still want to edit the image:
Modify -> Trace Bitmap...
Color treshhold -> 'Small'
Minimum area -> 'Small'
Curve fit -> Pixels
Corner treshhold -> Few Corners

This will create ya pixeled image

[ZeroKuhl]

Thanks guys and gals for all the insight...



~Zero

[ZeroKuhl]

How did the folks at www.*****hotel.com make their characters and ISO room object look pixelated?

Are they transparent .gifs?
Are they flash vectors?

I'm still confused how their site looks blocky...it's a cheap video game look trend - I want to know how they do it.

~Zero

[fospher.com]

its either PNG's or GIF's. You'd be crazy to make that all vector when you could easily make it out of pixels, not vectors.

[hooligan2001]

Yeah i agree with fospher just make your images as external gifs , import them and then turn allow smoothing off gifs are faster to draw then vector images so its a good optimization practice to get into.