Highlight text with a shine or something

[rogermate]

Looking for ideas (or .anme examples if they exist would be reall cool)
for how I could highlight text.

One idea is to animate a color change of the text, which could be subtle or dramatic. Another is size.

Is there some way to get shiny stars to flash across the letters without a lot of work?

One idea I had was to have another layer behind the text, but with a soft edge that extendes out father. This layer could be flashed or faded, it could be white, red, yellow.

Just looking for any other ideas.

[madrobot]

There's 2 things which come immediately to mind for me.

One is the ideas.

And the 2nd is the tools to do it.

1. work out ideas, play with them,
Use a photocopier, photoshop, pencil and paper,
and play with ideas
and come up with some stuff you want to replicate in As

2. Learn
- meshinstance
- masking
in AS

apply 2 to 1, and post the results in the forum
I'd love to see how you go.
Good luck

[rogermate]

2. Learn
- meshinstance
- masking
in AS

First, I haven't done anything on paper first. Funny in this computer age that paper could still be usefull for design and ideas, but I can see how that could make sense.

I know what masking is, I can see how a moving mask would be good for a moving highlight. My first thought was to have the highlight on a layer which could be brought into focus. I've recently learned some of the Gimp, and am starting get get comfortable with masks. I bookmarked a thread with a big masking tutorial on this forum before, am going to try to make time to watch it.

meshinstance - hmmm. Nothing about it in the Official Guide book, which is my starting point. Is that something in the scripting?

[synthsin75]

Is there some way to get shiny stars to flash across the letters without a lot of work?

For something like that I'd suggest learning masking and the particle system.