Handwriting, SwishMax - Intermediate Rating Options

[RedDragon]

Hi all,

first of all I made this tutorial in SwishMax, but it's also doable in Swish2


handwriting example: click here



If you don't want to use this font you've got to do it yourself, following this tutorial hopefully helps you accomplish that!



Ok start off with a new file, and keep the background white.

Choose the font, size and color you like and type your sentence. The color you choose should be different from the one you'll use in the end! This will be clearer later on.

Now group as shape:



Say yes to "Make the overlapped regions of objects with the same fill style empty" cause it doesn't really matter for this example.

Then, Ungroup:




As a result you now have all letters aligned properly. Next to that they are all independent objects and therefore perfect to use.

Now make all objects sprites:



Your outline should look like this



Open the sprite containing the first letter (lowest sprite) and select the shape in it

Now zoom in on the letter so you have a good view on it.

Select Ellipse



Select No line and Fill color should be the color you want to use for the characters. This will be the color you'll see in the end!

In my case I have a white background and my characters will be orange.

Now start at the starting point of the letter/digit and draw a small circle that captures the starting point



Do this for the entire letter, and make the circles overlap each other. Best way to do it is copy paste each circle, saves you some work.

In the end you've covered the entire character with circles, now make sure that the character (the digit 1 in this case) is placed at the bottom of the sprite's outline.

Remember, if you use the same letter more than once you can copy paste later on. Just use the same X and Y coördinates to align the sprites properly.

Now for the properties of the sprite:



With these settings you can now add "place"- effects in the sprite's timeline



and so on...

When you added place - effects for all objects, you're finished for this character (we'll come back later to add a tell-target to the timeline)


Repeat these steps for all characters, and remember that you can copy-paste characters if you use them more then once.

Now, if you finished all characters and placed them in the right order, you can go on with the next step

On the main timeline, add stop effects on the timeline, like this:



place them on frame 2,4,6,8, etc.



Add a place effect for every sprite, sprite 1 in frame 1, sprite 2 in frame 3, sprite 3 in frame 5 etc., like this:



Now one more final step before you are finished "handwriting" your text..

Open sprite 1 and in the end of the timeline, add the following:

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CODE

onFrame (12) {
gotoSceneAndPlay("Scene_1",3);
}

Now 12 is just 2 frames after the last place effect.





You get it? It means the movie will now continue playing frame 3 of the scene, meaning the second sprite will now play and so on.

For Sprite 2 you place the same go to frame effect but instead of frame 3 you now refer to frame 5 of the scene.

Continue doing this until you reached the last sprite. Decide yourself what happens after this one, but if you dont want to repeat the movie dont do anything.


Well, I hope I explained all steps clearly, apparently i used too many images but that should only clarify the steps taken.

[GoDario27]

Smoooooooth! Thanks for posting the tute!

[Eddie_K]

OLE!

Did this a long time in Swish 2.0 Very very time consuming

Thanks for sharing with everybody

Eddie

[RedDragon]

Thx

Actually I added this tutorial in September 2004, made the .swi I think a year before that so your replies are pretty late

[josephine]

it's never too late

great tut Rick as always!

[RedDragon]

Thx Penny

[krypton]

its really full job! Great

[Jambo]

Good tut! Thanks

[blueshift]

A great tut RD !


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[cena69]

what a great tut