Animate contents of a stack/card to turn like a page

mfstuart mfstuart at cox.net
Mon Mar 30 14:02:29 EDT 2009


Hi Chris,
I checked out the example. Since I develop on Windows, I couldn't see the
core image sampler work.
I'm sure this works on Mac OS.

It'll have to be:
  visual effect scroll down very fast
  go to card 2
for now.

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Mark Stuart


Chris Sheffield-2 wrote:
> 
> Not sure what the requirements are, but there is a CoreImage page curl  
> transition. This would be Mac only, of course. There's a core image  
> sampler stack located in Resources/Examples of your Revolution folder.  
> Version 2.6 and above I believe. Not sure if there's something similar  
> for Windows or not.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> mfstuart wrote:
>>> I'd like to animate the contents on a stack or a card or even a  
>>> field, to
>>> animate the contents like turning a page of a book/magazine/ 
>>> newspaper. It
>>> would turn from the top-right to bottom-left. Or something like that.
>>> This would have to be a cross-platform solution.
>>> Q: Can the animation do this?
>>> Or
>>> Q: can I do this without the animation engine, and do it with the  
>>> RunRev
>>> engine alone?
>>> If so how?
>>
>> Good news:  the "answer effect" command gives you access to  
>> QuickTime's transition dialog, which provides a stunning variety of  
>> transition effects.
>>
>> Bad news: page turning isn't among them.* :(
>>
>> I good page-curling transition would be nice to have, but I'm not  
>> sue it could even be done with an external (is there an API for  
>> imaging unopened cards?).
>>
>> You might consider submitting a request for that.  In the meantime,  
>> you may have to make due with something like the "push" effect for  
>> now.
>>
>>
>> * Also absent from that QT dialog is the Ken Burns effect, in which  
>> images are moved, zoomed, and faded simultaneously during the  
>> transition.  It's a gorgeous effect, and since it's used in multiple  
>> apps in OS X I suspect there's an API for it somewhere.  But it's  
>> not in the QT dialog we get with "answer effect", and I've found no  
>> way to emulate it in scripting.
>>
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