Comments on: Custom blend modes for Flash 10

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:35:45 +0000

The file in the downloads section is a zipped up swc, it’s your zip software that is uncompressing the swc contained within the zip. Try a different archiving program.

By: shannon

shannon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:25:27 +0000

Little help please!

I haven’t worked with .swc format before. I understand .swc is a compressed file using the pkzip format, but i don’t understand how to take the .zip file i get from the google code repository and transform it into a .swc file.

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Photoshop Blend Modes available in Flash | Lambda — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:27:41 +0000

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By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:05:07 +0000

Sounds weird maybe check the flash player plugin version you are using these effects require version 10

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:07:44 +0000

Using the following code:

import flash.display.BlendModeShader;
import flash.display.shaders.*;

var customBlendMode: BlendModeColorBurn = new BlendModeColorBurn();
customBlendMode.alpha = 0.8;
this.overlayOne.blendShader = customBlendMode;

I generated the effect that I was looking for however when I uploaded the swf into the project I then got these errors:

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.display::Shader could not be found.

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.display.shaders::AbstractBlendMode could not be found.

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.display.shaders::BlendModeColorBurn could not be found.
at global$init()

Are the classes not compiled with the swf when published? Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks.

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By: Henner

Henner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:06:44 +0000

Hi,
cool stuff but when compiling my project an error is thrown: Class mx.core::ByteArrayAsset not found. Although I have linked the flex.swc (and the class is included in your swc). I would appreciate any suggestions on this issue.

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:32:53 +0000

Hey Nik this is probably not the best place to have the question answered, as this blog post has little to nothing to do with Tweensy.

Anyway to answer your question you can set the alpha initially on the DisplayObject then tween or use a fromTo tween i.e. http://docs.flashdynamix.com/tweensy/original/com/flashdynamix/motion/TweensyGroup.html

By: Nik

Nik — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:35:40 +0000

You said something about tweensy for animation. Say you wanted to have an animation that starts with the alpha at .25 and goes to 1, how would you use tweensy or how would you suggest doing that?