Actionscript cameras
I've been using Jarrad Hope's actionscript camera quite a bit lately, especially for these daily movies. I thought it'd be well worth mentioning here because I highly recommend it to any Flash animators who want to create camera moves (pan and zoom) quickly and easily.
Almost anyone who uses Flash regularly for animation has heard about the actionscript camera (called the vCam) created by Sham Bhangal. It's basically a library symbol with all the actionscript contained within. It acts like a viewfinder.. you tween it around the stage like any other symbol, and when you compile your .swf the camera pans and zooms have been magically created. It really is as simple to use as it sounds. There's no tweening background elements to simulate camera moves.
Sham's Flash vCam is fantastic and it's free, but it lacks rotation functionality which is THE top feature request from users. The original vCam v2.0 announcement came up in Sept 2005, and on the progress of vCam 2.0, Sham posted an update last February.
If you want a virtual Flash camera like, RIGHT NOW and you want your camera to have blur and rotation, I fully endorse Jarrad Hope's reanimator.camera. It was once priced at around USD 15.00, but the 'Buy Now' button has been recently replaced with a 'Donate' button. The camera, and the other things on his page are now free.
The reanimator.camera works identically to Sham's vCam, in that it's a library symbol that you can tween around the stage like a viewfinder. The main differences are the Filters and rotation functionality. It's compatible with Flash 8 only, and on installing the camera (through Flash's extension manager) you'll get a new item in the Flash 8 Commands menu.
When you select this menu item, a new camera appears in the library. You can then drag it out onto the stage and go crazy with it. If you apply any blur to the camera symbol itself, the entire scene will blur. If you have Flash 8, I recommend you download it now and try it out. Drop Jarrad a thanks comment in his feedback form while you're at it!
Almost anyone who uses Flash regularly for animation has heard about the actionscript camera (called the vCam) created by Sham Bhangal. It's basically a library symbol with all the actionscript contained within. It acts like a viewfinder.. you tween it around the stage like any other symbol, and when you compile your .swf the camera pans and zooms have been magically created. It really is as simple to use as it sounds. There's no tweening background elements to simulate camera moves.
Sham's Flash vCam is fantastic and it's free, but it lacks rotation functionality which is THE top feature request from users. The original vCam v2.0 announcement came up in Sept 2005, and on the progress of vCam 2.0, Sham posted an update last February.
If you want a virtual Flash camera like, RIGHT NOW and you want your camera to have blur and rotation, I fully endorse Jarrad Hope's reanimator.camera. It was once priced at around USD 15.00, but the 'Buy Now' button has been recently replaced with a 'Donate' button. The camera, and the other things on his page are now free.
The reanimator.camera works identically to Sham's vCam, in that it's a library symbol that you can tween around the stage like a viewfinder. The main differences are the Filters and rotation functionality. It's compatible with Flash 8 only, and on installing the camera (through Flash's extension manager) you'll get a new item in the Flash 8 Commands menu.
When you select this menu item, a new camera appears in the library. You can then drag it out onto the stage and go crazy with it. If you apply any blur to the camera symbol itself, the entire scene will blur. If you have Flash 8, I recommend you download it now and try it out. Drop Jarrad a thanks comment in his feedback form while you're at it!
4 Comments:
hi phillips,
thanks for the useful information.
i will try all these..and i let you know my feedback.
No problem! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Wow, thanks a bunch.
I'll be using this for a lot of my flashes.
I was wondering, if you have, or would consider making a water tutorial? Sort of like, how you draw water droplets, and how you get the lighting so good.
If you don't thats fine, i look forward to any of your movies, they are always great!
Very useful. Thank you sir :D
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