Comments on: Mask Animations (Clipping Path Animations) In Silverlight Without a Line of Code

By: Clipping path

Clipping path — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:15:47 +0000

what a nice animation masking code. really enjoyable

By: clipping path india

clipping path india — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:56:44 +0000

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By: Tom Bruyneel

Tom Bruyneel — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:04:49 +0000

While clipping paths in wpf indeed leave some things to be desired, it’s not that hard as some make it seem to animate them. You certainly don’t have to follow the steps in this blog to be able to animate them. A more comprehensive article can be found here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/01/21/clip-path-editing-and-animating-in-blend-2.aspx

By: Elbergon

Elbergon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:47:31 +0000

If you dont like to work whith MS Blend, just do not do that “Ridiculous”; here is not flash…

By: john coltrane

john coltrane — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:23:51 +0000

I found this simple trick on my own a few months ago, explained it to a co-worker and totally forgot about it in the mean time.

I was here looking for a solution and he just re-explained it to me so here it is…

Say you want to show a rocket taking off within a small frame. The tip of the rocket appears from the bottom of the frame and goes up and up until the bottom of the rocket has disappeared from the top of the frame.

1. put the rocket in a blank canvas that is roughly the size of your frame (its size is not really important)

2. draw a shape the size of your frame (you don’t have to put it inside the canvas but it’s cleaner)

3. make the shape a clipping path but you MUST select the canvas instead of the rocket

4. you can then animate both the canvas and the rocket to your heart’s desire

By: zac

zac — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:42:57 +0000

I’ve played with this for a few days now. There is no way this is a true masking effect. Let me explain. Yes you can make some cool effects with what is described in the tutorial above. HOWEVER, you can only animate the clipping path and not the image under it. One of the comments suggested above it takes 5 seconds to create a masking effect in Flash and that is correct. When you create a masking effect in Flash you can animate both the mask AND the image you are masking at the same time. This gives you enormous possibilities for animation effects that you don’t have with blend. I’m really hoping for an upgrade in Blend 4.

By: zac

zac — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:44:47 +0000

I agree with the other comments here. ARE YOU LISTENING MICROSOFT? They need to ditch this whole clipping thing and make a real masking feature. What is written up above is equivalent to a hack. If you are going to get design animators to work with this product, you need to get a real masking feature.

By: Ridiculous

Ridiculous — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:45:54 +0000

Actually, I take it back. I have done it a few times now; It’s klugy and hacky and a completely stupid workflow, but at least it works.
Microsoft needs to fix this in future versions, this is as undiscoverable as most other features in Blend.

By: Ridiculous

Ridiculous — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:40:27 +0000

Mking a mask in Flash is a 5-second affair. IN Silverlight it takes 5 MINUTES and is stupidly complex. Even the method you describe above is unacceptably complex.

By: Geez

Geez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:14:26 +0000

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When I worked with Flash, mask animations were my bread and butter and they seemed so hard to do in Silverlight.

But they’re not.
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I totally disagree. Creating masked animations in Silverlight/ WPF is a real pain, and in some situations impossible (without code that is).