Zooming text

Name

How to let text zoom into screen

Purpose

The purpose is quite obvious. It's could look really cool!!

Use

There are at least two ways of letting text zoom in. One way is to make several text objects one larger than the other, and place them in sequence on the Stage. But an easier and prettier solution is to make a text bitmap with the paint window or, even better, an external editor such as Adobe Photoshop.

how to use a bitmap:

1. Make a bitmap. This bitmap has to be the largest enhancement of your zoom-sequence
2. Place it on the Stage
3. Click on the first sprite of the segment (be sure it is a keyframe).
4. Grab a corner of the object and, while holding down the CRTL and SHIFT key (to keep the proportions accurate), make the object smaller.
5. Now drag the reference point of the first sprite precisely over the last one
6. Playback.

Example

zoomin.dcr

Set backs

One setback is, that text can't be used to zoom, you have to make seperate cast members and place them one after another one the Score. Or you can use a bitmap, but the anti-aliasing doesnt work that smooth in director, so again you may want to use seperate cast members.

draft version 0.5 (12/3/2001)