MELTING WORDS
The file is available in these formats:
1. Flash 8 + AS2
2. Flash CS3 + AS2
3. Flash CS3 + AS3
This is a simple effect to animate any of your word. You can use it as an introduction to your movie by just adding a “Skip Intro” button if you want. You can also use it your banners or wherever you think it will be good.
There are attributes you can control from the xml file. If you don’t put them via xml then the defaults given in the action script are used.
These are the settings you can apply to all the words globally
1. speed – speed of animation – greater the speed slower the animation
2. showdelay – delay to perform before showing each word
3. staycount – number of frames for which each word should stay
4. loop – whether the words should loop or not
5. assignedwidth – if you assign this, then words scatter to the fixed width instead of going all over the screen
6. assignedheight – same as width
6. keepcenter – whether to keep the words in perfect center if width and height are fixed
These are the settings you can apply to all the words globally OR apply to each word separately
1. gap – gap between the characters
2. chardelay – delay to perform before showing each character
3. textsize – size of the text
4. randomalphaspeed – random alpha speed with which the characters are shown – greater the speed slower the animation
5. randomscale – random scaling for the melting effect
6. randomscalespeed – random scaling speed – greater the speed slower the animation
7. randomstartposition – random startup for the characters from the top and bottom
8. color1, color2, ... colorN – colors on the characters – you can assign as many as you want
These are the settings you can apply to each word only, separately
1. left – fixed position of the word from left – if not assigned, random is used
2. top – same as left
3. link – link to open when the word is clicked
4. target – name of the target window or frame in which the link should open
As soon as you change any of the above attributes, the animation gets adjusted accordingly.
There are two kinds of things.
1. You can animate a number of words together to make it appear like an introduction to your movie. Or you can use them in your banners or anything else. For this, the words are loaded from an external xml file and the symbol name is “words”.
2. You can make any of your word appear with this effect by using the symbol “word” and giving it a word you want… wordmoviename.word = “FLASHDEN”; and also applying the settings too.
If you use the “words” symbol then the space for showing the words gets resized automatically as soon as you resize the Stage of the flash movie. You can also make the area fixed using the width and height attributes. Please check the settings.
You can also try changing the font style in the “chartext” symbol.