"NoRefund17" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm trying to get a line in my flash file to look beveled like the
> photoshop effect. Anybody know how i would accomplish this? Details
> below^^.
>
> [b]What i want to accomplish[/b]
> I have a border for a flash movie that is loaded in by being drawn out. So
> the
> line actually starts from nothing, and animates itself around the entire
> shape
> of the box eventually becoming a box (with slanted corners) as a border
> for my
> loaded external .swf file. A solid line looks to plain, i like the look
> of the
> beveled line i created in photoshop when i was just planning out my
> design.
>
> [b]What iv tried[/b]
> Iv tried the following to no success :(. I tried applying a gradient to
> the
> line, but this doesn't give the results i desire, and all the intersecting
> points where the line curves or turns to form the shape of the box don't
> look
> right. They don't merge well together.
>
> I tried making the line a movie file and applying an actionscript
> ConvolutionFilter(); for embossing effect, and that didn't work on the
> lines
> themselves.
>
> any tips/tricks/help would be apreciated ty :). Please feel free to ask me
> for
> wathever you need to better understand my question. If you need me to post
> photoshop examples of what i'm trying to get, let me know :). Ty^^
>