Buttons for skewed text in motion menu
by Dave Fish
on
Oct 7, 2009 at 7:54:49 pm
Hey all. I have a motion menu where the art director has the txt built on screen on a skewed angle. So the text looks like its angled 3d into the page slightly. Its subtle but creates a nice visual effect.
The problem is the square boxes that encase the overlay highlight (shape to the left of each text) and button text itself can't extend over the entire text because of the skewed angle of it. Not a big deal for a DVD player with just up and down functionality needed, but for a computer with mouseovers, its an issue.
Is it possible to have invisible buttons that when rolled over or "selected" it actually toggles the hightlight state of a different button.
Hope that makes sense. I don't believe its possible but I thought I would ask. Maybe there's a way to script the button state in some way (cross platform).
Re: Buttons for skewed text in motion menu by Pierre-Luc Pare on Oct 8, 2009 at 3:59:17 am
Short answer is no. Any highlight needs to be inside the button area. To highlight a different part of the image, outside of the button area, you can use layered menus. Look into the manual on how to use them, but be careful, it slows down the navigation and watching on a computer, you will have to press twice a button to activate it.
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