Fancy Fading Rollover Tutorial

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My brother ~InsaneShane is going through a phase where he likes to do vampire photomanips - and once he has done them, he likes to present them as a flash-rollover that when you run your mouse over the image, you see the manipulated image appear over the original.

Now the method he was using was the same as Nocturnal-Devil's tutorial: [link] which just flipped from one image to the other.

While skyping one night, my brother mentioned to me that he wanted to do one which has a nice fade from one image to the other. So that night we think-tanked and brainstormed and had only a slight bit of success (neither of us have ever done anything major with flash).

The next day I made it my goal to research it and see if I can work it all out, and this is the final result of that research! A nice (relatively) simple tutorial on how to make your own fancy fading rollover in Flash!

You can see it in action here [link]

It is a pretty simple tutorial, but it does require some code entry, so at the end of this description I have pasted the code you need. Hopefully this will save you a lot of typing!

I know this is a really simple piece of code and all you flash experts are probably going to laugh at it, but for us non-flash savvy folks it's a pretty major milestone! lol.

If you use the tutorial to make something and you submit it to DA, feel free to post a link to it in the comments!




Here's the code snippet you need to paste into the Action script panel near the end of the tutorial:

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;

var rollover_btn = this["main_rollover"];

rollover_btn.onRollOver = function() {
var alpha_level = this.overlayed_img._alpha;
var over_fade:Tween = new Tween(this.overlayed_img,

"_alpha", Strong.easeOut, alpha_level, 0, 0.5, true);
};

rollover_btn.onRollOut = function() {
var alpha_level = this.overlayed_img._alpha;
var over_fade:Tween = new Tween(this.overlayed_img,

"_alpha", Regular.easeIn, alpha_level, 100, 0.5, true);

};