Flash Site Design - Cursive Writing effect

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Cursive Writing effect

DC Rich webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2004-01-26, 4:29 pm

Does anyone know how to create the effect of text being written? For example, someone writing a letter, where the words seems to flow out of a pen, developed one stroke at a time? I can't find an example of this on the web, but it would seem to be a commo
n effect. I tried writing text, breaking it into shapes and then using shape tweening, but that was time consuming and not as smooth as I would have liked.

Does anyone have any experience with this they would like to share? Thanks.

Nehmo Sergheyev

2004-01-27, 6:28 am

- DC Rich -

quote:

> Does anyone know how to create the effect of text being written? For

example, someone writing a letter, where the words seems to flow out of
a pen, developed one stroke at a time? I can't find an example of this
on the web, but it would seem to be a common effect. I tried writing
text, breaking it into shapes and then using shape tweening, but that
was time consuming and not as smooth as I would have liked.

- Nehmo -
Write out your cursive writing with the brush.
Change to the ereaser
Erase the writing backwards, just end at first
Select frame 2
F6 to create a keyframe
Erase a bit more
Select frame 3
F6
And so on - until the writing is gone
Save the movie
Select all the frames
Modify > Timeline > Reverse Frames
Save

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DC Rich webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2004-01-27, 11:30 am

Thanks for the response, but I was hoping for something more clean and efficient than a frame by frame animation. That might work for a word or two, but a sentence or more would require a tremedous amount of frames, especially if I wanted it to look smoot
h.

Are there any ways to tween or script this without a kludge? Anyone?

abeall webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2004-01-27, 3:29 pm

This is almost identical to one of me first posts. I asked the same quesion, got the same repsonse, had the same thought(about effiency).

But after I tried it out, I found it worked plenty well. I used masking that was a frame by frame revelation of the text. I had several words.

I guess if you have several sentences and you want to "draw" it all, that's a different story. Ypou could try a fast linear mask tween.

GL

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