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3D Flash Animated Graph

Hi

I was wondering if anyone has come across anything like this on there travels http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/flash/727693_in ... _graph.php?id=727693

Does anyome have any other examples like the one given, I need it more 3D

Any help much appreciated

Thank you!

Thats a simple animation. All it is, is a gradient, and then copied with a darker color to create a minimal 3D effect.

You could easily make something much better in Photoshop, import it into Flash and animate.

If your looking into animation with actionscript, that may be a little difficult, as it uses easing and it looks like animation commands.

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Wrong ! It is AS since you can change the value of the graphic and update it. See it's clearly AS 'cos the guy there used a lot of mx.transitions.easing.Elastic.easeOut on the bars. Doing something like that is really not difficult. You just have to modify the _height attribute of each bar according to the input data with the Tween class. :p

The Tween class was a complete study from R. Penner who wrote it for AS1. The latter was ported to AS2 by Macromedia but it still lacks many functionalities: Hence developers usually write their own Tween class. Anyway if you're beginner/average flash user, it's easier with mx.transitions.Tween. :)

If you want to make it look 3d-like. You can draw several rectangles and skew them in order to achieve a 3d-like look. I've done a quick sample about it. Notice that if you put 10 and update, the base will look compressed. Anyway this sample's purpose is to show you how Tween works and my idea of fake 3D, then the rest is up to you. The .fla and the .swf (done with Flash 7 in AS2) : http://www.imaginascent.net/help/bar.zip

First time I come here. Btw the new forum looks really great but why is there no way to upload attached files ? Could be useful...

That's great, thank you!, the thing is I don't actually need to input data in the boxes.

All I want is the initial animation as the bars ome in.

Would you be able to assist me with this?