Macromedia MAX 2005 - Anaheim, CA What’s New In Flash 8
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Now you'll create the text for the animation. In the Tools panel, select the Text tool (T).
1. In the Properties panel, make sure that Static Text is selected. Select a bold font like Arial
Black, but you can pick any font you like. Next, set the font size to 80 and set the text fill
color to #FF0000 (Red).
2. Still in the Properties panel, change the Anti-alias option to Anti-Alias for animation. This
setting improves the overall motion quality of animated text, and its visibility.
3. Draw a text area in the middle of the Stage by clicking and dragging with the Text tool (T).
4. Type in the text Flash 8. (See Figure 2.) Notice that in Flash 8 the text area now has control
points on all four corners. You can adjust the width of your text box by selecting any one of
the edit nodes and dragging it to the left or right.
Figure 2. The new Static Text area with the Anti-alias for animation setting
Adding the Bevel Filter
In these next steps we will be adding a Bevel Filter and modifying the Filter’s attributes.
Select the Filters tab in the Property Inspector. Filters are another great new feature in Flash 8
that will allow you to add shadows, glows, and other visual effects to your objects. For our text,
we’re going to use a bevel filter.
