24 October 2008 - 10:35Distressing News

I have recently discovered that if you need to embed a large number of characters form a distressed font into flash, ready for use in dynamic text fields, they can swell your file size quite considerably.

So here is a possible solution… Just use a clean font (which is much smaller), create your text field within a MovieClip, and then apply a tiled mask of distortion texture across the front of it.

I have just put a demo of this in our labs page… http://www.brondbjerg.co.uk/pages/labs.asp

Could be useful!!!

Mike