crud. anyone remember how to load a filter? ;) On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Rich Shupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can almost certainly write a Hydra filter for this. You can do it > AS-native with BitmapData. > > 9-slice scaling can't do what you're hoping for, as I understand it. It > will > only scale the top and bottom "centers" when scaling left and right, the > left and right "centers" when scaling up and down, the center slice in all > cases, and never the corners. > > If you want something *very* roughly like the genie effect (where the top > and bottom scale but not the middle, or vice-versa), you'll need to write > something for that. There are bunch of examples like this if you want to > think a bit about what to search for. I can think of the genie effect, an > old-school waving flag or skew, etc., all of which cut the object into > slices and manipulate them individually. > > In fact, this is required when using 9-slice on a bitmap. You have to cut > the BM along the lines of the scale-9 rect so the auto scaling will work > properly. (You can do it manually before importing, too, but that's > obviously not dynamic.) > > Another thing that was quite popular was the slice-distortion of a single > image--the first I saw was the Mona Lisa--depending on where you hovered > your mouse. I just did a search for "mona lisa actionscript" with no luck, > but this might jog some gray cells into action. > > You might also look for an ActionScript goo/liquify example which would > demonstrate a displacement map approach. I think Grant did one of Mike > Chambers. > > I'll try to pull this into focus when I have a clearer head and maybe I can > think of a concrete link or two. > > R > > > On 5/20/08 1:35 PM, "eric e. dolecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > While I don't seem to be able to do this easily, I am applying scale9grid > to > > sorta do what I want. I was hoping for incremental stretching on the > > sides... maybe that is something I'll be able to do using a hydra filter > or > > something in FP10. > > Rich > http://www.LearningActionScript3.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
