Mask Device Fonts, A little tut to show you it can de done. Options

[DPC]

Mask Device Fonts Tutorial

Ok as most of you Swishers all know it's not posible to Mask Device Fonts ....
I found a very simple way to do this and thought I'd show you how it's done.

First of I am using the scroller from my Sprite scroller tut to make this tutorial


normaly when you use a Device font and then hit the "Use Bottom Object as Mask" Tab like this

you will get these errors in the dedug panel

and if you press yes when asked if you want to play the file you will see this error Message


Now we Know we can't hit the tab but we can use Actionscript to place a mask like so.

CODE

textSprite.setmask(Mask);

The code is set up like this

textSprite = the name of the sprite you want to mask. setmask = Tells the movei to set a Mask on the sprite we just named. (Mask= name of the shape we are setting to be a mask);

in my scroll sprite the build up looks like this



as you can see the Sprite "Box" is marked in Blue and includes the above stated code, and the Sprite "textSprite" is within (Below the BOX Sprite) and at the very bottom of the "Box" Sprite you can See the shape "Mask" it is set to the exact size of the hole in my Sprite scroller, so that the text in the "textsprite" can only be seen where the Mask is..

and almost forgot here is the settings used for this tut



Some of you will be asking what is it good for if i can't mask Device Fonts so what, well try hitting the <>HTML tab.

you will see only device fonts are allowed so if you want to scroll it and mask it you will need to set a Mask with Action Script.

TUT FILES

Cheers Patrick

[*D*]

Nice Patrick

Thankyou

[Adrian]

Thankyou patrick.

[RedDragon]

Great trick! Thx for adding

Has annoyed me for such a long time.. finally a fix

[DPC]

If you knew how many times i pulled my hair out on this problem untill i realized the answer is so simple to solve...

Glad you like my solution

Cheers Patrick

[cmonney]

cool lil' tut, Pat!!!

[Eddie_K]

Very nice solution Thanks

The download doesen't work though

Eddie

[DPC]

Just retested the download works perfect

I'll post i in the downloads

Cheers Patrick

[yusuf]

THX Patrick..
Nice tut!

[berepoot]

Good tut, and usefull for anyone