Star wars effect

Gringo

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.

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

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.

rsynnott

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

damnyanks

Unless he is making the website for starwars

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.

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

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.

aidan_walsh

yeraulone wrote:

Whats it to you?

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

Gordon

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

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.