Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: > I have this "concept" and I'm not really sure it can be implemented > in Rev... at least I haven't found a way: > > 1) Establish a border that is like a picture frame, that is feathered > on the outer edges... and the inside is transparent.... > > 2) use this as a windowshape > > 3) next we want to place an image inside this "frame" such that the > frame serves as a mask to the second image which is underneath... > then we would want the image underneath to be set to move across very > slowly... but only appear on the inside of the frame. > > Now, this doesn't work... > > Saving the window frame as PNG with transparency on.. we get a lowly > frame, and I can see right three the middle to my desktop and also > the outer edges are feathered. Lovely: caveat: the inside of the > frame is also completely knocking on the entire interface!
If I understand what you're trying to do, you don't even need a custom windowshape for this. You can do this within a single window by using a transparent PNG for the frame and placing whatever images you want to move behind the frame in a group (with lockLoc enabled) behind the frame that is set to the same width as the frame . Thus when you slide the images back and forth within the group, they will be masked by the group and visible within the frame image. But you will have a solid color (or texture) in the center of the frame where photos are visible, since this is where the card shows through the frame. Make sense? If you want to animate the mask of an image, it's possible by repeatedly setting the alphadata of an image to a sequence of PNGs but this will be a lot of work. Otherwise, yes, we need more elaborate masking options within Rev. The current rectangle provided by groups is too limiting. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design ----- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution