Skewing an MC through actionscript

[panthoz]

In AS 2.0, is there any way to skew a movieclip through actionscript so that it is in the shape of a trapezoid?

Like so:

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[fil_razorback]

I assume you're using AS2. Here's what you're looking for : http://docs.brajeshwar.com/as2/

The flash.geom.Matrix class represents a transformation matrix that determines how to map points from one coordinate space to another. By setting the properties of a Matrix object and applying it to a MovieClip or BitmapData object you can perform various graphical transformations on the object. These transformation functions include translation (x and y repositioning), rotation, scaling, and skewing.

'hope this helps.

EDIT after your edit :
more friendly text here : http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutor...ansformmatrix/
But it doesnt seem to make trapez. Sorry :/

[panthoz]

I assume you're using AS2. Here's what you're looking for : http://docs.brajeshwar.com/as2/


'hope this helps.

EDIT after your edit :
more friendly text here : http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutor...ansformmatrix/
But it doesnt seem to make trapez. Sorry :/

Ya unfortunately none of these do a trapezoid shape like i posted above. They only skew sideways.

[bluemagica]

well scaling to trapezoid falls in pseudo-3d group, and you can do that on a bitmap by splitting it up in triangles, and then use transform matrix on it(texture mapping)!

[panthoz]

well scaling to trapezoid falls in pseudo-3d group, and you can do that on a bitmap by splitting it up in triangles, and then use transform matrix on it(texture mapping)!

Any good examples out there of how this can be accomplished? Would it slow down gameplay much if everything is contained within the skewed MC?

[bluemagica]

MCs cannot be scaled to trapezoid only bitmaps(bitmapData) can be, so you have to convert your mc to a bitmap before you can do the transformation! And yes, this can and will affect your performance a bit, but depending on how wisely you use it, the performance hit can be negligible!

I modified the code from this tutorial, it may look a bit daunting, but if you can just understand the matrix portion, rest is easy(I spent a few days trying to understand it, so don't give up!)
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=778852

[renderhjs]

check:
http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/distortimage
http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/disto...ionscript.html

it needs to be sliced into several triangles in order to do trapezoid transformations. This is because within flash all bitmap transformations are based on affine texture mapping (the skewing, rotating and scaling stuff).
That sandy class (also AS2 available) does that for you