Footnotes

Now that the interface is more or less sorted; I am concentrating on the footnotes.

To give the impression of the labels being attached to the bottle as it rotates, I am creating an image with all of the labels in a logn row, so that I can tween them from right to left in one big animation. This way they will stay linked up and it will (hopefully) be a bit easier!

The next stage was to create a mask so that only the part of the label that was on the bottle could be seen.
To do this I had to draw around the outline of the bottle in flash and fill it in, it is then turned into a mask layer and the labels layer is the masked one. This then works! Hopefully... It didn't work for me straight away, a lot of tweaking occured.

Here they are!

All of the animations, finished... in a much better colour! The video is a bit jittery but you get the idea. :)

Aaah

Animated four out of five buttons tonight, whether I keep them or even like them? Well, that is debateable! Enough for one night :)

Map

Footnotes

These don't show up all that well with the white background on this blog...

Scrapbook animation

Scenes animations

Second attempt: Third attempt (and final?) :

Tonight

Commenced work on the interface symbol animations, tried out having the scene button - the glass - fill up, spill and spell out the word 'scenes'... it was a bit rubbish.
Tomorrow I hope to get more done, think i'll have the glass knock over to spell out scenes... we shall see :)

ANyway, I managed to get the hit button to work and play the movie clip, really struggled with trying to get it to change scene after but I will either resolve this or get help next week!

TO DO

Interface:

• Make animations for each symbol (button):

• footnotes - whisky pour
• scrapbook - page turn
• quotes - guitar strings move/musical notes
• scenes - glass fill
• map - roll up
• audio for each
• (home button)

Scenes:

• sliding animation between each scene
• audio for sliding noise
• next and back buttons

 Scrapbook:

• page turning animation (film actual page turn for reference)
• page turning audio
• next and back buttons

 Quotes:

• Peel off sticker animation
• peel off sticker audio
• add to scrabook interface (library?)
• inventory
• guitar strings animation and audio 

Map:

• waterproof paper and map outline
• video liquid pouring onto paper
• animate map image transparency from video
• audio of spill

Footnotes:

• make mask around bottle excluding label area
• animate chain of labels movement
• pause and stop animation
• audio of bottle turning
• animate bottle e.g bubbles
• next and back buttons

Flash demo.. showing the linked up scenes

Old news and Flash woes.

Had a nice wee test running of the labels tweened behind a mask, just a rectangle for now.
(The rectabgle will be the bottle and the background in the real deal, to simulate the bottle rotating)

and..

"adobe flash player has unexpectedly quit"

So, that's enough for tonight. It isn't good for the soul to carry on after Flash behaves in such a way.

So yes, I hate flash, old news. Woe.

TO DO. Tonight.

Having some awful trouble with buttons.. I have my flash file all linked up so that the interface takes you to each section (scene) but the home buttons won't work to return to the interface. Weird. Will abondon this for a few days until I can get some help with it.
SO tonight, some things I discovered need doing whilst assembling the flash document:
Resize the scrapbook files so that they work with the rest
Fix the footnote labels and compile them into a looong strip (this will make sense when I come to make the footnotes section and explin it all on this..)
Make a background for the footnotes and bottles



In the near future (but not tonight):
Research paper types and make liquid spill video (to be explained)
Work out how on earth to do the sticker thing..