Re: animating scaling of sprites

[court batson]

Thanks for the input everyone. I am talking about the motion of the 
image itself. I've taken some advise and looked into subpixel animation 
as one option and the AlphaMania Xtra as another that may fix the 
problem. The AlphaMania Xtra seems to be very good, but still not good 
enough for 1024 x 768 images. I'm hoping I can dig something up in 
imaging lingo, but so far it seems like I'm asking too much of Director.

For quick motion, I'm sure the blurred image would work, but what I'm 
being asked to do is a slow, steady pan and zoom video/film effect.

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 06:45  PM, Brennan wrote:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:13:56 -0400, "Mathew Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

However, is this what you are talking about Court? From your initial
posting, I got the feeling that your issue was with the perceived 
motion
of the image itself, be it a bitmap or a solid block of color. First 
of
all, is my perception correct?
That's how I understood the question too, in particular

I was expecting to get something
closer to video. Is this a pipe dream? Are there any ways around this?


Well, Court, if you get a good video recording (try a DVD) and pause a
frame where something is moving across the screen, you will discover 
that
the moving object is blurred. This is one of the best ways to fake very
nice motion.

For moving a sprite, switch to a motion blurred version of the object,
next frame, move it someway to its destination (breaking the 'journey'
into a couple of steps, and in the final frame, switch back to the
original.
The same thing works with scaling of course.

This is only really useful if you know exactly where things are going 
to
be moving to, so you can prepare a good blurred image, using motion 
blur
on exactly the right background, going in the correct direction, and so
on, but I often see situations like where this technique can work.

If you include a short 'whoosh' sound, the effect is even more 
impressive,
but this is not always acceptable/desirable.

Brennan
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