Transparent flash Tutorial for AMS!?

[Wonderboy]

Anybody interested in a little tutorial of how to make transparent flash in AMS?if so il make a little tutorial about it?

[Corey]

Sure, post it. Lots of people will like that.

[Wonderboy]

Thanks Corey il do that!:)
it will be up in an hour or so,

[Mina]

Yes, im interested here as well :)

[Intrigued]

If you can do such in a Flash object that would be very interesting!

[yosik]

If I venture a guess, Wonderboy, you would be using a transparent projector and place it visually on your page, right?
This guess is BEFORE seeing the real thing. I, also, am very curious about that.

Yossi

[Wonderboy]

Ok this toke longer than i thougth, hade to work
and sleep, anyway here is the tutorial ,its in quicktime format,
enjoy, download the ziped Tutorial movie from here, its 15 mb size,
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms00131168/AMSTFTutor.zip.html

Download the final output file here, this movie shows how the final result will look like, this zip file is 8 mb,
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms00131185/Final_Output.zip.html

[Wonderboy]

If I venture a guess, Wonderboy, you would be using a transparent projector and place it visually on your page, right?
This guess is BEFORE seeing the real thing. I, also, am very curious about that.

Yossi

No yosik , i have not used any flash projector, watch the tutorial and you will see, ive just used a singe line of "script" to make it possible
il make a writend tutorial of this later perhapse, for those who are new to AMS or dont want or cant download the wideo tutorial,

[Mina]

Hi.
The file does not download, the browser acts as if the files don't exist. :o

[Wonderboy]

It should work, ive just tried it, but ones it downloads its abit slow, toke about 3 minutes for me to download the 8 mb size file,

[Wonderboy]

If you dont manage to download it, il post a writend version of it later tonight, :yes

[Wonderboy]

Ok to get transparent flash in AMS, you need the following, a flash file "swf"
then you need autohotkey , its a free uttility found on the net,and finally you need AMS to do all the finall output in, ones autohotkey is installed, you can simply write a simple script in notepad, if the color that you want to use for transparent is black then you type the following in the script,


#NoTrayIcon
WinSet, Transcolor, 000000, AMSTF

the first line in this script#NoTrayIcon, is not needed , but is recomended ,otherwise everytime you launch this script from with in AMS there will popup an icon for just a second in the tray, and thats why i use this code to get rid of that thing, the next line is where the color witch you want to use for transparent in AMS the Transcolor and the color i use in this script is Black = 000000, any color can be used here, but black is recomended,
and last you set the name of the project of witch you will be using as you AMS project name, lets say you name your project "MY Project" in AMS then you need to use that exact name in this script at the end where i have used "AMSTF" as an example, then finally save the script, by giving it a name and change the exension of it from "txt" to "ahk" ok,
now you need to compile it, and if you allready have installed Autohotkey then you could just rightclick on the script witch you just saved on the desktop for example, and choose compile, when the compiling is done, take this compiled script and put it in your AMS docs folder for example and now all you have to do is choose to run this script from within AMS, as an example you could put it on preeload, and ones it has been executed you can then simply choose to set to delete the script onShow, if you dont want anybody to see how you did it,
then in project settings in AMS set your project as flat or use a custom mask for example,and bring in your flash movie file witch has a black background,
if black is the color that you choosed to be transparent,
Allso remember that if you used black as the transparent color, then everything that is totaly black = 000000 in your project/ flash file will allso be transparent, same goes for everyother color you choose to be transparent aswell.
and if you want be able to click thrue the transparent area of your flash movie aswell, and not just have it look transparent, then use an webobject with a flash file insted, and set the transparent flash background on webpage, and bring that into AMS insted, and now you are allso able to click thrue every transparent area of your flash movie,and reach what ever is benif it.

OK hope this makes some sense, try it out and have fun:yes

[playmenow]

Ah, I don't have quicktime here. Can you make an avi file or any other popular format? (For some reason, quicktime isn't working on my PC)

[Wonderboy]

Playmenow you need to download Techsmith codec so that quicktime can play the file for you, thats wy your quicktime wont display the movie i think. Otherwise il see if i can upload another version of it soon.

[Intrigued]

Ok to get transparent flash in AMS, you need the following, a flash file "swf"
then you need autohotkey , its a free uttility found on the net,and finally you need AMS to do all the finall output in, ones autohotkey is installed, you can simply write a simple script in notepad, if the color that you want to use for transparent is black then you type the following in the script,


#NoTrayIcon
WinSet, Transcolor, 000000, AMSTF

the first line in this script#NoTrayIcon, is not needed , but is recomended ,otherwise everytime you launch this script from with in AMS there will popup an icon for just a second in the tray, and thats why i use this code to get rid of that thing, the next line is where the color witch you want to use for transparent in AMS the Transcolor and the color i use in this script is Black = 000000, any color can be used here, but black is recomended,
and last you set the name of the project of witch you will be using as you AMS project name, lets say you name your project "MY Project" in AMS then you need to use that exact name in this script at the end where i have used "AMSTF" as an example, then finally save the script, by giving it a name and change the exension of it from "txt" to "ahk" ok,
now you need to compile it, and if you allready have installed Autohotkey then you could just rightclick on the script witch you just saved on the desktop for example, and choose compile, when the compiling is done, take this compiled script and put it in your AMS docs folder for example and now all you have to do is choose to run this script from within AMS, as an example you could put it on preeload, and ones it has been executed you can then simply choose to set to delete the script onShow, if you dont want anybody to see how you did it,
then in project settings in AMS set your project as flat or use a custom mask for example,and bring in your flash movie file witch has a black background,
if black is the color that you choosed to be transparent,
Allso remember that if you used black as the transparent color, then everything that is totaly black = 000000 in your project/ flash file will allso be transparent, same goes for everyother color you choose to be transparent aswell.
and if you want be able to click thrue the transparent area of your flash movie aswell, and not just have it look transparent, then use an webobject with a flash file insted, and set the transparent flash background on webpage, and bring that into AMS insted, and now you are allso able to click thrue every transparent area of your flash movie,and reach what ever is benif it.

OK hope this makes some sense, try it out and have fun:yes

I tried this (had AHK installed already) and it did not work for me. I used a stock .swf from AMS (with black in such, which is the color used in the code). I also changed the name to the name of the project's name, to no avail.

It would be nice to have an option here along these lines but ...

[Wonderboy]

Hello Intrigued, i dont know why it dident work for you, and since no one ellse has posted about thier results on this, i cant really know what the problem is,
it should work if you did exactly as i have descrived, but since you seem to have done it the same way i have no idea of what could be wrong here,

[Intrigued]

FWIW, I PM'ed you back on your PM.

[miguelr21]

the pages is not working for download this files(http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms0...Tutor.zip.html) and(http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms0...utput.zip.html).
Please fixed this errors :huh