Help needed with simple (i hope!) problem

[[OAP}SAGA Lout]

Hi guys,

I am creating a site for a car club with a small flash intro consisting of text and jpegs that fade in and out.

I have created the text, converted it to a symbol and used alpha blending and motion tweening to fade in and out. Now, if I play the movie it looks fine, just what I want. However, if I go to test movie or publish, all of the fading is lost on the text, however it is still apparent with the jpegs.

I would be very grateful if someone could show me the error of my ways....and go easy 'cos its only my 2nd go at flash!

Cheers for any help,

[Vampire]

is it uploaded somewhere, so we can check it out . . . . . . . :wink:

:vampire:

[[OAP}SAGA Lout]

ok, just quickly put it up at:

http://home.freeuk.net/saga/mgintro.html

basically, the text should fade in and out, especially the car types further into the demo.

Cheers

Saga

[2bad4u]

Looks fine an dandy jack! Does exactly what it says on the tin! :P

[[OAP}SAGA Lout]

uh?

Are you saying that the text fades on yours? 'cos when I look at it it just appears then dissappears?!

I am mostly talking about the text that appears as the photos scroll over.

[Firenze]

i thought u couldnt tween symbols?

[Vampire]

IMO tweening is changing shape, not?
But he means fading, and trhat is playing with the alpha values, not?

And it doesn't fade 4 me neither................:(
I asked a friend to look into it. Perhaps he knows.... but he needs to work tonight, so i hope someone sort it out earlier.

cheers,
:vampire:

[2bad4u]

Yes everything fades fine for me. I'm using IE 5.5. Not sure what other info would be relevant or helpful.

p.s. I am using a 3dfx v3000 open GL graphics card...

[[OAP}SAGA Lout]

Just upgraded from 5.0 to 5.5 but still looks the same!

Only way I can think of fixing it is to do all the text as images in fireworks then import them into flash.

Anyone else got any ideas?

[2bad4u]

But it works fine for me. ;(

Check your internet options in the tools menu maybe...

[[OAP}SAGA Lout]

Sorted it.

Apparently you have to 'break apart' text symbols for it to work, although I discovered this more by trial and error than from the Flash help files which are decidedly vague about the whole thing. Cant understand how it worked on yours though :/

[Vampire]

can you upload it again, so we can see how it really works. tnx
:vampire:

[[OAP}SAGA Lout]

OK, reloaded it to:

http://home.freeuk.net/saga/introdemo.htm

Should have the full site up tomorrow so you can see how it looks in context.

Cheers for your help anyway.

Saga (why no smilie for a zimmer frame!?)