Moving a link across the screen

RogB wrote on 7/30/2003, 12:58 AM

Is there anyway to have a link move from one side of the screen to another?

The situation:
Plane enters left moves across screen to right and stops (this being my background image).
Plane needs to be a link to a media file.
I need to either move link with plane (using X and Y cords.) or not have the link appear until plane stops (with a timer)...

Any solutions or sugestions would be greatly appreciated (as always)!

Rog B

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 7/30/2003, 2:26 AM

I assume you have the plane moving as part of a non-looping background clip.

Don't know about having a moving link, but the link could already be there, invisible and "waiting" for the plane to arrive.

The actual button could be an empty text object, with transparent highlight, so nothing would show, but it would seem as though the plane was being clicked.

If necessary, nearby text could say "Click on plane to play movie" or whatever

RogB wrote on 7/30/2003, 2:30 AM

Thanks Peter for your feedback.

I actually thought of that but did not want the link just sitting there highlighted without the plane...

If I am even making sense at this hour (2:29 AM for me)!

farss wrote on 7/30/2003, 3:08 AM

It makes sense but unfortunately as afar as I know cannot be done in DVDA, come to think of it I doubt if it can be done at all.

Pardon the me for saying this but most people have trouble getting DVDs to play without trying to chase moving links.

If its for a specific demographic I guess the idea is valid (but still not doable).

Sorry, I just have a thing about any technology that's made too clever for its own good, so many beautiful looking web pages that you can never navigate through are my other bugbear.

PeterWright wrote on 7/30/2003, 4:33 AM

Rog - with a zero opacity setting, the highlight should not be visible at all.

AlistairLock wrote on 7/30/2003, 6:22 AM

Perhaps you could have the plane fly in as an intro movie, then the plane becomes a static image as part of the top menu.

I did something similar a while ago. I created an intro movie where (at the end) two images fly in from the far distance, stop, the intro movie ends, and the menu becomes a static frame grab from the end of the movie. The pictures that flew in become the links to the movies. I simply placed two empty text boxes around the pictures, and these are the actual links to the movies. Hope that helps.

RogB wrote on 7/31/2003, 1:42 AM

OK I figured mine out and hope this will help someone...

The plane that I have flying in (from screen left to screen right) is a prop plane towing a banner in stop animation. At screen right I have placed a transparent cloud, the plane flys behind the cloud with the banner, the banner remains behind the cloud and voila a link that can be there all the time! This allows me to loop the backgroud and still have my logo as the intro movie.

yes it is possible to highlight it before the plane gets but thats ok for this menu.

I will post this menu on the http://www.vegasusers.com/ if you would like a peek.
it should be something like rogb-barn-dvdmenu or something. I also have another menu there of a t-ball season so if you get that one the mark has not put the barn one up yet.

RogB wrote on 7/31/2003, 10:30 AM

The menu is now up at www.vegasusers.com, just checked a minute ago.