Colour With SwishMax

Example:

Controls

Using the paint brush

Click on a colour above, and then click on a shape on the image to fill with the selected colour.

First Of All

Open SwishMax and set the stage size, i have used 450 x 400

Step. 1

You first need to create your colour palette so using the rectangle tool

Press and hold the shift key and drag out a small square, select the colour you wish the palette to be.

Repeat this until you have you colour desired colours, something like fig.1 below.

Fig.1

Step. 2

Now you need to add a selected colour view window.

Again using the rectangle tool, hold down the shift key and drag out a larger square.

Larger than the colour palette square see fig.2 below.

Name the shape using and give the shape a solid black colour fill #000000

Group as a sprite and name that using.

Fig.2

Step. 3

Add the shape you wish to colour in, for the purpose of this exercise, select the rectangle tool whilst holding the shift key down drag out a square whatever size you wish. Name the square col-fill. Give the shape a solid White colour fill #FFFFFF and no outline.

Step. 4

Right click on the col-fill shape select copy object, right click the shape again only this time select paste in place

Change the colour fill to none and add a line set the depth to 1 and the colour to black se fig.3 below.

Fig.3

Select the coll-fill shape and add the following script to it.

Now group the shape as a sprite by right clicking on the shape and select grouping then select as sprite, rename the sprite to fill-col

Step. 5

Now you need to add the scripts to the colour palettes. Starting at the top left colour palette add the following script to the shape.

Now add the following script to the top right colour palette

Now add the following script to the bottom left colour palette.

And finally add the following script to the bottom right colour palette.

You should now have something working like fig.4 below

Click on the colour palettes and then on the fill shape to see how it should work.

Fig.4

Now you know how to apply colours to shapes

Try creating something like the example at the beginning of the tutorial.