Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
colour layer using ‘Ctrl + Shift + V’ or ‘Edit/Paste in Place’. At this point you should be up to
stage three of Figure 4.16.
Figure 4.16 Removing transparent areas from a bitmap
Finally click on the black area and delete it. You should now have a bitmap with an irregular
shape. You can achieve a similar result using the magic wand option of the Lasso tool, but in our
experience you will get a better result using the alpha image option or a png sequence with an
embedded alpha. When you have done this to each image in the animation sequence you can
use the animation on any background. Take a look at ‘Examples/Chapter04/FatCatCG.fla’ to see
how the animation looks. The file size for this 16-frame animation loop is 44 K.
Figure 4.17 The final result from ‘Examples/Chapter04/FatCatCG.fla’
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