"Crosshairs" transition

[YYZ11]

I have seen on several sites a transition I can only describe as "crosshairs"... Of course, now I can't find any of them.

By crosshairs transition, I mean four straight lines (left, right, top and bottom), which begin at the edges of a rectangle, move toward the center of the area (acting as the edges of a mask)... They "wipe" the jpg away until they "meet" at the center of the image, then they return outward to the edges of the rectangle, the new image appears in the area.

Does that makes sense?

If anyone has code to do that, I'd appreciate it... I like the effect, but can't quite make it work.

YYZ

[stupendo44]

Here it is! It's in Flash 5, and is the same in MX. I didn't have to use any code for this, and the only masks are the ones to make sure the animation doesn't show outside the "playing field". Frankly, I'm surprised nobody else came up with this yet. I included the .fla source, and the .swf file. You're welcome. :)

Stephen

[goku]

Cheers Stupendo44 for the fla - so, that's how you do it!!:D