Using Quads to force
perspective -- sort of.
(requires Shockwave 7.02).
Get the source DIR
from your browser cache or in a SIT
or ZIP archive.
People have been asking for years how to do the
20+-year-old crawl from Star Wars in Director. Well,
here's one quick-and-dirty method. It uses the Director 7 quad
property to make a trapezoidal shape out of a fixed-size text
cast member, then uses the scrolltop property to handle the
crawl.
You'll notice that the illusion isn't perfect,
however. Because the edges are merely slanted inward at the
top, the actual height of the lines doesn't vary, so there's
no feeling of actual distance at the top of the sprite. You
could modify the height of the lines of text, but what a hellish
task to manage that and the scrolltop.
Click on the middle of the movie to run the animation
again.
