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Star wars effect

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  • 15-05-2005 6:35pm
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    Gringo
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭


    I was hoping someone might be able to help me. as the intro to a web site i need to put some text scrolling up the page, like at the begining of star wars, was hoping that somebody might be able to tell me how to do that 'cause i have no idea.


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    you'll need to use flash to get that effect. If you do a search for star wars at www.flashkit.com you'll probably find loads of files for it. You can also download the star wars font face from them or else check out dafont.com


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    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    Could be done in a basic fashion with the marquee tag in HTML. It's been years since I've done this so i don't rememeber exactly how its done. May be as simple as wrapping a <marquee> tag around your <font> tag. This approach may also only be for scrolling horizontally.

    For vertical scrolling you may have to go down the road of javascript. I used code that did this before and it is quite effective. Doesn't allow for the perspective effects I think you are looking for though. i.e. that the text gets smaller as it scrolls up the screen.

    For the full effect i reckon you would have to do it in flash. I have no idea how you would go about doing this. I suppose you could use an animated GIF.


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    This sounds like a wonderful way to make people click on "back" frantically, tbh.


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    damnyanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Unless he is making the website for starwars :D


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    seo-ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭seo-ireland


    Flash Intro.. Noooo! Only acceptable on certain media sites IMHO.

    I came across one site that had this Star Wars type of intro and I wanted to fist the screen.


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    flash intros are the biggest waste of time ever!
    and the whole idea of star wars intro sounds a bit tacky to be honest


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    yeraulone
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭yeraulone


    Rollo Tamasi wrote:
    flash intros are the biggest waste of time ever!
    and the whole idea of star wars intro sounds a bit tacky to be honest


    Whats it to you? All he asked for was some help.


    Check this tutorial...

    http://www.freehandsource.com/_frames/_tips/_archive/tip_week103.html

    You'll need to know flash.


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    yeraulone wrote:
    Whats it to you?

    Yes, design for yourself, not for the user. You'll go very, very far that way.


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Perspective tool in flash, thanks for the link yeraulone, didn't know about that.


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    yeraulone
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭yeraulone


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Yes, design for yourself, not for the user. You'll go very, very far that way.


    That wasn't my point. No need to be so smug.


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