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  • drop area

    Posted by Federico Pangeri on June 16, 2009 at 8:10 am

    Sorry about the stupid question, i have some problems to create the drop area of a button on encore cs3.
    I’ve the menu ( animated menu created from after effects)
    i’ve imported the psd file than assigned motion audio and video (after effects comp) to that menu. now i’m tring to assign the a button.
    No problem for the Highlight button, but i need a bigger drop zone for that btn.
    i’ve tried to rename the Highlight with (=1) and the drop (or selection area as u want to call it) with (=2) but nothing happen.. than i’ve tried to rename the highlight with (=2) and the selection area with (=1) but nothing happen jet..
    could someone help me pls?
    sorry for my poor english..
    tnx u in advance
    hsab

    Jon Geddes replied 17 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Joe Bowden

    June 16, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    Sorry, but I’m not sure I understand. What are you trying to make bigger? The bounds of the button?

    Can you please restate the question?

  • Jeff Bellune

    June 16, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Add a shape or text to the button group, and reduce the fill or opacity to 1%. That should force the object to take up space but still remain invisible.

    If you reduce the opacity or fill of the new object to 0%, then Encore won’t recognize the object and the size of the hit area won’t increase.

    -Jeff

    The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

  • Joe Bowden

    June 16, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Is that what was meant? Guess I needed more coffee…thanks, Jeff. 🙂

  • Jeff Bellune

    June 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    [Joe Bowden] “Is that what was meant? Guess I needed more coffee”

    Heck, I don’t know. I answered just in case that’s what was meant. 🙂

    -Jeff

    The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

  • Jon Geddes

    June 16, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    Well he did say nothing happened when he prefixed the layer with (=1) or (=2). Federico’s method for trying to increase the selection area will work providing that he also turns the opacity of the (=2) highlight to zero in the ‘Edit Menu Color Set’ options.

    Maybe nothing happened because he didn’t prefix the Layer Group with a (+). Not doing this would cause “nothing” to happen when he tries to create the button highlights in photoshop.

    Jon Geddes
    Motion Graphics Designer
    http://www.precomposed.com

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