"Bulged" or Fish-Eye Text

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January 4, 2023
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Hello!

I was wondering if it was possible to apply a Fish-Eye or "Bulge" effect to Text, or at least a Symbol, in Animate.

I'm doing this to create a CRT-like screen for a project I'm working on. Find attatched an image to better describe the sort of effect I'm after. Thanks!

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kglad

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here's a sample of what you can do with the displacementmapfilter.

https://www.kglad.com/Files/forums/displacementmapfilter.mp4

p.s. you can't do anything with meaningful interactivity with timeline animation. ie, the user is not going to be able to drag the lens.

_keyframer

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That's cool!

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kglad

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i remember being amazed at what the displacementmapfilter could do and the quality and performance are actually better than it appears in the mp4.

_keyframer

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I'll assume you want it animated? Timeline animation or using actionScript like Kglad mentioned?

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I'm more familiar with Timeline.

_keyframer

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A few more questions. See attached short video. Can your text be broken apart until vectors? Are you okay with frame-by-frame animation?
Another way (in the screenshot PNG) is to simply scale each letter differently to fake the "bulging". This way can be tweened with easing but merely implies Perspective.

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BulgingText_Test.zip