Morphing one picture into another

kilo_4que

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Jun 24, 2004, 9:10:22 AM6/24/04

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Hi, Can someone please help me out

My knowledge of Flash is not the best in the world but im sure what i need
help with has a very simple answer. The problem is that i want to morph a jpg
picture into another jpg picture as part of an interactive map. Now i am able
to do this with hand drawn vector shapes but cannot do this with jpg files even
though i convert then to symbols.

Could someone help me pls

Cheers

yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyok

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Jun 24, 2004, 9:16:49 AM6/24/04

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I don't think you can shape tween with any bitmap but i might be wrong. Try
breaking the symbols up (ctrl + b) and then try it. This should atleast morph
the shape of the images if not the full content.

Laiverd.COM

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Jun 24, 2004, 9:29:06 AM6/24/04

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Cannot be done; only option that achieves something that is not even close
to actual morphing is using an alpha fade on both pics. Otherwise: use
morphing program and export to any import format that is supported by Flash
and import into Flash.

John

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David Stiller

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Jun 24, 2004, 11:17:48 AM6/24/04

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Hear, hear! Even if you break up your JPGs into vector art, the
resulting graphic will contain FAR too many distinct vector shapes to
"morph" collectively.

David
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kilo_4que

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Jun 24, 2004, 12:34:17 PM6/24/04

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Rite so how would i do this alpha fade business. I mean ive looked on a site
called Kirupa but it gives you Alpha fade with inertia where by the image
morphs into another on the movement of the mouse which is not what im after

David Stiller

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Jun 24, 2004, 12:40:57 PM6/24/04

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Even on Kirupa, it's not morphing. If it uses alpha, then it's
dissolving (just like in film). And, heck, you don't need ActionScript for
that. Just import two JPGs into Flash, put one in a layer by itself, and
the other in a different layer by itself. Make sure they overlap (like,
they both start at frame 40, say, and both go till frame 60 -- and they both
overlap visually). Making sure each image has been converted to a symbol
(graphic or movie clip, it doesn't matter), make sure there are keyframes in
the first and last frames of the first (upper) graphic. Select the last
keyframe and look in your Properties panel. Change the Color: selectbox to
Alpha and set it to 0. Then tween the span of frames between those two
keyframes. Voila ... a nice graphical dissolve.

David
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Chelsea

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Jun 24, 2004, 1:02:15 PM6/24/04

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Hi
You could use a prog called FlashMorph which does conventional morphing and
outputs to swf format. I don't have an URL but its easily found on Google. I
think it costs about £20/$30

Chelsea

kilo_4que

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Jun 25, 2004, 5:10:33 AM6/25/04

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O thanks for that mate. It is exactly what i was after.

Cheers

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