[Papervision3D] TextField with filter removes artifacts from text

[Steven de la Torre | BLITZ]

Well with specific regard to system fonts, I found that CacheAsBitmap wasn't always enough. We did a site in Japanese recently and it was a real problem. The only solution that seemed to work was the filter. CacheAsBitmap didn't seem to work for alpha tweens under a mask. But... maybe I had some extra weird circumstance.

Steven

From: Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf Of Dustin Sparks
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Papervision3D] TextField with filter removes artifacts from text

Yeah, thats what I thought it was Helmut.

Whenever filters are applied to anything it automatically turns it into a bitmapped image.
As helmut said, you can accomplish the same thing, without adding filters by setting the movieclips cacheAsBitmap property to True.
On 6/13/07, Helmut Messerer <helmut at cgtvgames.com<mailto:helmut at cgtvgames.com>> wrote:

Yeah, it makes a bitmap out of it (cacheAsBitmap)



Helmut



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From: Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org<mailto:Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org> [mailto: Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org<mailto:Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org>] On Behalf Of Steven de la Torre | BLITZ
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:46 AM
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You know what I have noticed a similar effect when using system fonts. Typically system fonts will disappear when being used in conjunction with dynamic masks or alpha tweens. When you apply a filter to the movieclip containing the font, say a Blur with 0,0 as it's values, then suddenly the text will always appear.



Steven



From: Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org<mailto:Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org> [mailto: Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org<mailto:Papervision3D-bounces at osflash.org>] On Behalf Of Bart Wttewaall
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:45 AM
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Subject: [Papervision3D] TextField with filter removes artifacts from text



Why hello thar,

Did anyone notice that when you add a filter to a textfield within a movieclip and map that as your texture, that the text will render just fine instead of showing artifacts where edges intersect the text? I just found that out when messing with a mouseover effect: when applying a simple dropshadow to the text, the artifacts suddenly didn't show. So then I added a blurfilter over the textfield in the mouseout version with a blur of 0, and voila, no more artifacts!

Perhaps it works because of herbs!

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