Help need to create Complex Text shape

you're welcome st.

js, as i mentioned above:

i don't know any way to make it easy to understand how to control the displacementmap filter. but controlling the displacementmap filter can be done (check my website under snippets/displacement map where i repeatedly create new bitmaps that distort the text based on the position of a moving object.)

because of my mathematics training i prefer to view the displacementmap filter as a normalized displacement. if you check the formula for how destination pixels are mapped from source pixels, it looks a lot like the normalization done for a variable that has a normal distribution where the mean is subtracted and that result is divided by the standard deviation.

You guys seems a bit ahead of the curve in regards to text shapes... Any help simplifying how i could achieve this would be greatly appreciated: (I just posted this in another topic)

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I would like to have the dynamic text scale within a given area despite how many characters are passed into it as my value from FlashVars.

So whether the dynamic name is "Jon" or "Jonathon" for example, the name should not appear any wider than the space I choose.

Could someone give me some pointers for achieving this?

Thanks in advance,
James

Is it possible to get the code for Displacement sample you used?
i need code for the "EUCLIDEAN" effect you gave.

i hope i can able to understand it by seeing the code.

Or Please Guide me to get the curved Text using the Displacement Map Filter.

Thank you very much KGLAD. i will have a look at your DISPLACEMENT FILTER Explanation.

really i can't able to image how it works when i read the adobe documentation....

I am not that much Good in Maths.

i don't know any way to make it easy to understand how to control the displacementmap filter. but controlling the displacementmap filter can be done (check my website under snippets/displacement map where i repeatedly create new bitmaps that will distort the text based on the position of a moving object.)

because of my mathematics training i prefer to view the displacementmap filter as a normalized displacement. if you check the formula for how destination pixels are mapped from source pixels, it looks a lot like the normalization done for a variable that has a normal distribution where the mean is subtracted and that result is divided by the standard deviation.

there's no problem with your code but i'm not sure you're going to see anything useful unless you're looking for y displacement based on blue values.

in particular, it's not clear there's any alpha gradient in your bitmaps so it's not clear you'll see any x displacement.

and you might try setting xDiff and yDiff both equal to zero.

you can use the displacementmap filter to do that and more.