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From: dqmedia on 5 May 2008 13:19
Greetings,

I have been having difficulty getting a smooth blend over time, i.e., fading
an image out. The transitions appear to be "stepping" through the gradient,
rather than fading smoothly from 100% tp 0%. I have tried different settings
within "Copy", "Blend" and "Transparency" but nothing I attempt seems to
address the clunky look of an awkward segue.

I welcome any tips or advice.

Thanks,

Doug

From: Rob Dillon on 5 May 2008 13:49
How are you making this fade? Are you using Lingo, or are you using the score, or are you using a built in transition, or are you using a third party transition?
From: dqmedia on 5 May 2008 14:46
Hi Rob,

Thanks for responding. I have moved a cast member to the stage and then set the blend up in a sprite using the settings in the Property Inspector.

Thanks,

Doug
From: Mike Blaustein on 5 May 2008 15:06
Over how many frames does it blend? If you have the blend go from 100
to 0 in 3 frames, it will not be very smooth...

Depending upon how you have your program setup, it may be advantageious
to do the blend in Lingo. This will do it for example. Put this on the
sprite that will fade. Where it has "blend-1", you can change that to
any whole integer and it will speed up the fade (put in a 2 and it will
double the fade speed).

property pFade
on beginSprite me
pFade=1
sprite(me.spriteNum).blend=100
end

on enterFrame me
if pFade then
if sprite(me.spriteNum).blend<=0 then
pFade=0
else
sprite(me.spriteNum).blend=sprite(me.spriteNum).blend-1
end if
end if
end
From: dqmedia on 5 May 2008 16:09
Hi Mike,

Thanks for this advice. I will give it a try. Yes, it is a very short fade 5-10 frames--just to take the edge off a transition.

Cheers,

Doug


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