Change color from center of object

[ekessler]

I have a move clip that is a blue shape. I would like to have it change color to red beginning in the center and "growing" outwards over the course of a few seconds until the entire object is red. I have spent a while looking through the plugin explorer and the documentation and have not found how to do this.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[Carl]

Actually the hexColors plugin is well-suited for this.

see the example in the plugin explorer.

you would need to use a radial gradient perhaps.

 

or check this out:

 

 

example: http://mpcreation.pl/blog/tutorial/comp ... /Demo.html

 

tutorial: http://www.blog.mpcreation.pl/complex-a ... -by-tsafi/

[ekessler]

Thank you for the fast reply. I have spent quite a lot time trying to get my movie clip to change even without the gradient using the hexColors plugin and the code in the documentation. Am I missing something, does it only work if you have the code draw the shape?

[ekessler]

I have been able to change the color using ColorMatrixFilterPlugin but no luck with the hexColors plugin. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[Carl]

in order for hexColors to work for you it needs to constantly call a function that will re-apply the new color values to your object.

I would stick with colorTransformMatrix.

 

to get your growing from center color change effect, you could try scaling up a red shape and fading it in, or perhaps revealing the red shape with a mask that is scaling.

[ekessler]

I used the mask. It worked great. Coming from an illustrator background, I should have thought of that.

Thanks for the help.