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NCH85 — Cloaking demo part 2
Published: 2009-06-13 06:21:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 7872; Favourites: 66; Downloads: 125
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a friend pointed out to me that the cloak effect is only as good as being moving on the background.but I proofed him wrong that a character walking behind the cloaked character will also get bend
but, theres a limitation to this effect is that you cant do a feature animation of your character who is cloaked, cause as more and more artifacts come in, it will get more and more laggy and intensive.
this effect is best used for short 10second scenes like a predator cloaking away into the jungle and then moving off with the effect seen and not just a cheap "alpha out" effect
or a protoss armada appearing out from their cloaking field. without the use of any secondary effects software to do it.
did anybody else actually did this effect before or am I the first one to claim this effect lol, some friends told me about the run-time bitmap cache can achieve this effect too, but its only able to use for movieclips and it screws up if the movieclip has alot of symbols in it. and i dun really like to work with movieclips anyway lol.
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hey this is beast but plus i relized the dogs arm dosent just bend but disapears
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the effect is very much efficiant!! Did you know that flash 10 allowed a full 3d support with new effects and blendings and all?
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wow that's so C00l!~
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I don't think I've seen this anywhere... At least not without AS. It's still very, VERY impressive.
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SNAKE! There's four cloaked soldiers in the elevator with you!
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Now I'm going to be working out how you did this all day.
I'm thinking you duplicated the movie, but offset it a bit, then masked it with the cat's shape. Then you did it again and masked it with the cat's outline.
y/n?
I bet this could be actionscripted to get it without lag xD
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doesn it make your movie get pretty slow?
i mean become so heavy
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well if u keep adding more stuff for it to pass in front, right now its still alright
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YOU MUST BE USE MASKING TECH...
AND... SOME AS...
BUT I WONDER THAT IS VERY HARD TO THINKING..
TELL ME!!
LOL
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sorry man, Starcraft has you beat XD
i think of it being more like glass without the surface shadow and reflectivity.
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starcraft is such an old game already, of course i have already completed it
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question is, WHY ARENT YOU STILL PLAYING IT???? XDDDDDDDDD
I want more battlenet friends to play with!
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I'm not korean enough
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An interesting development of the effect. I too believe the cloaking is something to be used for a limited time and specific circumstances.
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Holy crap i still can't figure out how you did it without actionscript. Dang you're a monster.
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Interesting!! I've never really heavilly used masking methods, but that could be important...Does the effect allow for changes in opacity (Ie. turning invisible, turning visible again?)
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I did...but....oh hey, I guess that answers my question.
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So you're telling me NO action scripting was used at all? Well, sir, I refuse to believe such a thing to be true. Unless it's some sort of masking technique...
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Oh...should have figured that much.
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yeap pretty much masking and with some oversight stuff nobody notices.
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What? NO ActionScript?!
That's a real magic!
I thought it was like, using a long script or so, but you said "No"?!
That's incredible!
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It's just a dog walking around, what cloaking effect? ...wait...oh the cloaking effect is that good! (end sarcasm filter). Nice job!
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its just the magic of bean a cat XD
lol crap engrish alert!!!
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Did you use that layer blending thing in flash for it? I haven't really played with it too much, but I imagine you could do that with it, since you can do similar things in photoshop with it.
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layer blending for flash?
no I just use some "advance masking" technics to achieve the effect
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Oh fair enough. Yeah I did that once to when animating an elite from Halo in like.. 2005? I forget..
I'm pretty sure you can now get a super similar effect now with the layer blending though.. If thats what they call it in flash. I can't be bothered checking right now haha.
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Pleez mistuh NCH89 to teech us flash seekrits of yuurz.
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LOL... But really, I wish to learn the tekneeks of MCH
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