Oldie but goodie… vCam
So I know this has been around for a while, but this blog hasn’t and I have to say this really saved me on a recent project.
I’ve been working on an animation that involves a lot of timeline tweens. The client decided that they want to add a camera zoom effect. This, of course, meant that not only was I going to have hundreds of tweens everywhere, but I’d have to add a ton more. There’s maybe 50 movie clips on the stage and I’m sorry, but I am just too lazy to deal with all of that.
So, I remembered back to this flash file that my classmates and I used for our final graduation project. It’s basically a flash file with a movie clip in it that acts exactly like a camera - tween it wherever you want, and everything on the stage is cropped to whatever is inside this movie clip. You can zoom in and out by tweening this one movieclip, and even add color and fade effects.
The project is called vCam and its available in Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3 flavors. There is also an interactive version which allows you to still have interactive elements in your movie like buttons and whatnot.
I have found a few flaws in it, but overall its an amazing and incredibly helpful little tool. The biggest issue I had was:
It doesnt matter if there are objects above the vCam’s layer in your timeline, they will still be resized or cropped out based on the vCam’s position and size. This is frustrating because if you are using bitmap objects, then you’ll need to resize them appropriately so that there’s no pixelation.
Either way, go try it out. You’ll be happy you did.
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