Flash MX 2004 Time Axis Special effects example

Special effects If you often want to do some complex and repetitive animation, or want to add some flash motion for your own dull animation, you may wish to try the Flash MX 2004 new Time axis EffectsFunction.

　　Instance One: Shadow Effect

To create a shadow in Flash, we would draw a shaded area of our own to place it under the effect element to add. Now let's take a look at how the Flash MX 2004 timeline effects can be implemented easily.

1. Open Flash MX 2004, select "Create New→flash document" on the Start page, and create a new file.

2. Use the Text tool to enter the text "grass, I Am Invincible" (Of course you can enter text content).

3. Set the properties of the font on the property panel, and when finished, place the text in the middle of the scene.

4. Select the key frame where you want to place the text (if you are making exactly this example, it should be the first frame on layer 1), select the menu command "insert→timeline effects→effects→drop Shadow", and the dialog box appears. In this dialog we can set the color of the shadow, the transparency, and the distance between the shadow and the component, and on the right you can see the effect set (similar to the effect set in fireworks) (Figure 1).

5. If you modify the effect settings, you must click the Upload Preview button above the preview area to refresh the effect.

6. After the setup is complete, click OK button to see the effect after adding timeline effects. You will find that the original text has been automatically converted into a graphical component, select it in the property panel of an edit button to edit the modified effect again.

　　Principle Analysis :

Now let's see how MX 2004 actually implements this functionality. Press F11 to open the library panel, and you can see that a "Drop Shadow" graphic symbol and a folder are automatically added to the library. When we double-click the graphic symbol, a dialog box prompts us to include the special effects in this component, and if you want to edit it, the effects will no longer be changed. Select OK, enter the component, there are two layers in this component, the upper layer is the text we entered, and the lower level is the flash in accordance with our settings to generate a shadow graph, two overlapping after the display is the text shadow effect. This approach is exactly the same as the way we make shadows by hand, but it is entirely automatic and is WYSIWYG.

Do you think that just a shadow effect does not matter, do not need such a fuss, let us imagine making an explosion effect. In previous versions of Flash, it would take a lot of steps to make an explosion: Now it's easy to just use the MX2004 explore effect, now look at the next example.

　　Example two: Explosion effect

1. Create a new file and import a picture into flash using the menu command "File→import→import to Library."

2. Press the F11 key to open the library panel and drag the imported pictures to the scene (Figure 2).

3. Select the keyframe where the picture is placed, and then use the menu command "Insert→timeline effects→effects→explore" to open the effects dialog box.

4. As in the previous example, the effect setting area is on the left side of the dialog box, and the right-hand side is the effect preview area, and because the blast effect we make is an animation, the effects of the current setting are repeated in the effect preview area. It should be emphasized that if you modify the set value, you need to click the Upload Preview button on the preview area to refresh the effect, otherwise you will not see the latest preview effect (Figure 3).

5. In the setting area on the left, we can set the direction, position, angle of the explosion and the transparency of the last explosive fragment, and try it out on your own.

6. After the completion of the setup click OK button to complete the addition of special effects.

　　Principle Analysis:

Again, let's take a look at the situation in the "library" after the production is completed, MX 2004 automatically adds a "Explode" movie clip and a folder to the library, opens the folder you can see a lot of different movie clips, each contains one part of our imported picture, and then goes into "Explode The movie clip, where each part of the picture has a motion animation (Fig. 4), produces an explosion effect. So the way MX 2004 makes an explosion is by cropping the picture (or other elements) into multiple components, and then combining them in motion animation, is it exactly the same as the traditional way of animating?

In general, the Flash MX 2004 timeline effect is a big bright spot, often flexible to use it, you can save a lot of time to make animation, for the non-professional users can also easily get some original need very professional skills to make special effects. Whether it is advertising production, business demonstrations or animation production are fash MX2004 the arena.