Image Distortion in Flash

[goowhite]

Hi.

I have been struggling in Flash to find out if advanced bitmap distortion is possible in flash. I am talking about the same

distortion effects that Photoshop generates by going to Filter > distort menu. Especially the spherize, Wave and Twirl

effects. The displacement map filter introduced in Flash 8 or 9 has this capability. But I don't think it can actually distort the bitmap in Flash. All they do is create a false image and don't actually convert the image.

So I want to imitate Photoshop in Flash so that when I have an image in Flash the user would feel like he's using

Photoshop filters and twirling or spherizing the image.

[kglad]

the displacementmap filter can distort bitmaps.  and yes, you won't be distorting the original image.  but the user won't know that.