It seems like even if you set an Image object's smooth property to false, it doesn't make the Bitmap look jaggy on non-90-degree angles (jaggy = aliased, opposite of a smooth edges = anti-aliased).
Is there any way to achieve this? Or do I have to construct the rotation-spritesheet by hand and interpret the "angles to sprite index" calculations myself?
Does
stage.quality = StageQuality.MEDIUM;
or
stage.quality = StageQuality.LOW;
do what your want? I haven't used this in a very long time, but tweaking quality is an old-school way to improve performance during certain situations.
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I have a bit problem with rotationX and rotationY.
It's cool if i just do a roationX and rotaionY below
_eventParent.rotationY =_differentX;
_eventParent.rotationX =_differentY;
However once i have assign a mouse move to the _eventParent. The roationX and roationY change perspectively while the mouse is moving. so instead the item remain the same size. it increase and decrease size prospectively. any idea why is it doing this? is there a possibility to stop this behavior?
Thanks
Please find the image below.
Perspective allows part of your shape to look closer to you than other parts. The problem is that perspective has a center, or "vanishing point" and by default, it is fixed. As you move your shape farther away from the vanishing point, the perspective changes, causing your shape to widen or narrow.
You can fix this by updating the vanishing point so that it is always at the same coordinates as your shape. Since the shape will always be at the vanishing point, the perspective shouldn't change.
To do this, create a perspectiveProjection for your shape:
_eventParent.transform.perspectiveProjection = new PerspectiveProjection();
PerspectiveProjection is located in the flash.geom package, so don't forget to import it.
Then whenever you update your shape's position, update it's vanishing point:
_eventParent.transform.perspectiveProjection.projectionCenter =
new Point(_eventParent.x, _eventParent.y);
You might need to offset the vanishing point by a set number of pixels to get the perspective looking the way you want it to.
Correct me if I misunderstood your question. Your question is that if you apply rotation to the movieClip object, then why does the size appear to be changing?
For simplification, Let's not apply rotation on both X and Y axis. Let's take a rectangular movie clip and onMouseMove we do ++myMovieClip.rotationX;
Now, this statement is going to apply rotation on the object about the X-axis and one would get a perspective of the movie clip flipping across X -axis and this flipping will show as change in size of the object.
The same applies to rotating across y-axis.
I'm trying to make a "pan" effect (I'm not sure if this is pan) in flash (as3) where you have an image bigger than the mask where it is displayed (just horizontally). It´s a very simple effect, but I'm having trouble with the tweens.
First, I tried with the tween class. But it ended up a mess with the speed of the tween (the parameter where you set the frames or seconds of the tween). The "begin" parameter is easy, is the x value of the object, no matters where is it. The "end" parameter is easy too, is 0 or the end of the image, depending if you are on the left or right button (the tween begins when you are over those buttons and end with a stopTween when you are out of them or when the tween is over). The problem I'm facing it's the "duration" parameter: I want the same speed in all the tweens, no matters where it begins. Obviously, if I put a static value, if I'm in the middle of the image, the speed reduces to half.
So I'm trying to figure out how to create an algorithm to do this. I first tried something like calculating which percent of the image is the current "x" value:
If I am at 50%, make the tween in 50 frames.
If I am at 90%, make the tween in 10 frames.
If I am at 20%, make the tween in 80 frames.
But I think there should be a way to make it easier. Maybe I'm getting it wrong, and the tween class is not what I need... I'm just trying to make an displacement effect, always at the same speed (although an ease in and out until the speed is reached would be greater).
Any idea or useful link about this? I saw a lot of tutorials but with different behaviour, mostly related with mouse position.
thanks in advance!
You want:
duration = (end - begin) / pixels_per_ms
Why not use the ease property of a tween class? Take a look at http://www.greensock.com
There is a useful example widget you can experiment with on the TweenMax page.
The betterway to Achieve this effect is to measure speed/over/distance this formula will be easier and a lot less code.Doing it this way you wouldnt need any tween library's.
var MaskCenter=100;
var speed=1/10;
var distance=boxdummy.mouseX-MaskCenter;
if(mouseX<250){
box.x-=(distance*speed);
}
if (mouseX>250)
{
box.x -= speed + accel;
}
Something like that!
If you cant work it, let me know i will make up a (fla) file for you
I'm trying to draw a shape with quite precise rounded corners, I'd settle for anything around 3px. Unfortunately Flash has other ideas, and is creating a rounded rectangle with four seemingly different radii. My code is below:
var sq:Shape = new Shape();
sq.graphics.beginFill(0x000000,1);
sq.graphics.drawRoundRect(20,20,20,20,4,4);
sq.graphics.endFill();
addChild(drop);
I removed the line as apparently fills render better, and changed to an even number radius as apparently that helps, but it's still the same. The code above gives me a square like so:
The corners are noticeably different. If I were using a bigger radius it might not be so much of a problem, but because of the small radius of the corners the square just looks odd.
Have I missed the drawRoundRectEvenly function or am I asking too much here? Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
Darren
Try setting pixelHinting to true.
sq.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x000000, 1.0, true);
Even if you're not using strokes, try it with an alpha 0 and see if it helps smooth things a bit. It will most likely still not be perfect, but it should snap to pixels a bit better and clean up dramatically.
I'm trying to position an image on top of another image based upon the make-up of the smaller image. The smaller image is a cut-out of a larger image and I need it to be positioned exactly on the larger image to make it look like a single image, but allow for separate filters and alphas to be applied. As the images are not simple rectangles or circles, but complex satellite images, I cannot simply redraw them in code. I have quite a few images and therefore do not feel like manually finding the position of each image every and hard setting them manually in actionscript. Is there any way for me to sample a small 5-10 sq. pixel area against the larger image and set the x and y values of the smaller image if a perfect match is found? All the images are in an array and iterating through them has already been set, I just need a way to sample and match pixels. My first guess was to loop the images pixel by pixel right and down, covering the whole bitmap and moving to the next child in the array once a match was found, leaving the matched child where it was when the perfect match was found.
I hope I understood your question correctly.
There may be an option that uses copypixels to achieve what you want. You can use the bitmapdata.rect value to determine the size of the sample you want, and loop through the bigger bitmap using thet rectangle and a moving point. Let's see if I can code this out...
function findBitmapInBitmap(tinyimg:BitmapData, largeimg:BitmapData):Point {
var rect:Rectangle = tinyimg.rect;
var xbound:uint = largeimg.rect.width;
var ybound:uint = largeimg.rect.height;
var imgtest:BitmapData = new BitmapData(tinyimg.rect.width, tinyimg.rect.height);
for (var ypos:uint = 0, y <= ybound, y++) {
for (var xpos:uint = 0, x <= xbound, x++) {
imgtest.copyPixels(largeimg, rect, new Point(xpos, ypos);
if (imgtest.compare(tinyimg) == 0) return new Point(xpos, ypos);
}
}
return new Point(-1,-1); // Dummy value, indicating no match.
}
Something along those lines should work - I'm sure there's room for code elegance and possible optimization. However, it seems like something like this method would be very slow, since you'd have to check each pixel for a match.
There is a better way. Split your big image into layers, and use the blitting technique to composite them at runtime. In your case, you could create a ground texture without satellites, and then create the satellites separately, and use the copyPixels method to place them whereever you want. Google "blitting in as3" to find some good tutorials. I'm currently working on a game project that uses this technique and it's a very good method.
Good luck!
Edit: Forgot to code in a default return statement. Using this method, you'd have to return an invalid point (like (-1,-1)) and check for it outside the function. Alternatively, you could just copy your small bitmap to the big one within the function, which would be much more logical, but I don't know your requirements.
You need to find pixel sequence in the big image. BitmapData.getPixel gives you pixel value. So get first pixel from small image, find it in big image, then continue comparing until you find full match. If you have trouble to code that, feel free to ask.
For the actual comparison, there's BitmapData.compare which returns the number 0 if the BitmapData objects are equivalent.
I'm using a flip mechanism to navigate through my site (flip file & demo). The problem is, once it's flipped the content been displayed good just like I want it, but there's some offset from the flipped (right) parts en the solid left part (visible when you look closely). Also the right part is now a little blurred (which is the disturbing part of my issue). This all caused by the flip (I think the rotationY is causing the problem).
When I click a button I do the following:
flip=new Flip(currentPage,nextPage,richting);
content.addChild(flip);
currentPage=nextPage;
nextPage = new MovieClip();
there is a fix for it, consider the following:
// store original matrix
var origMatrix:Matrix = box.transform.matrix;
// set initial position
box.rotationY = -180;
// start animation
TweenLite.to(box, 1, {rotationY:0, onComplete:cleanBlur})
// execute after animation complete
function cleanBlur():void {
box.transform.matrix = origMatrix;
}
maybe you can find better results using other 3d library.
EDIT: sorry the "box" object, I was testing in flash, but box would be any of your pages to flip. Just apply the same logic.
Matteo at Flash & Math has an excellent solution for this. He actually found that when you bring an object into native 3D space it expands the object by one pixel in both the width and height. This can be counteracted by scaling your object back and then setting it's z to 0 which will scale it back up. Now the object is ready to play with without the blur.
http://www.flashandmath.com/flashcs4/blursol/index.html
adding: This fixes the scale issue, but not the blurriness. You will still need to use the matrix transformation fix posted above.