Hello, On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Yaser Hameed (RBEI/ECA3) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I had a few questions: > > A: Is it possible to apply a glow effect to an actor or a particular part of > an actor? If yes, how..??
You mean similar than in iPhone calculator app used to be prior they changed it to pressed images? I did a version which was resembling the iPhone glow effect once - I created a prototype button actor which did this quite long time ago (around at the time of clutter 0.6). It was very simple: the button face was one picture and the glow was another (the glow was a pic with 8-bit transparency). I just placed two actors on top of each other to form the button (which was based on a clutter group if I remember it correctly), and I created a fade in and fade out to show / hide the glow accordingly. I think I had to also rewind the timeline in order to the effect be interruptible so that if you pressed the button multiple times, it was showing the glow with full brightness immediately and not after the previous effect finished. I think there are other ways to make your actor glow than this, but this was so trivial and simple way to do it that I had to try if it worked. I don't know if I still have the code somewhere or not... Anyway, it looked very similar than the glow effect on some iPhone buttons, and I would suspect that they have done it exactly that way - placed two images on top of each other, the button pic and the glow and the glow is just a fake, created with the second image. Best Regards, Karoliina Salminen -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
