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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: New Flash Thread

RESURRECT!!!

Okay SO:
Back to Flash!! Refresher: Doing some Flash movies for a senior project we have at school. Help is appreciated!! I'm going to be getting some professional help in the near future, gotta contact the guy. But yeah!

Soooooooooooooooooooo, I just figured out how to copy a series of frames (copy motion). Right now I'm experimenting with movie clips. I want to add n number of instances of a "Rain Clip" which is a single drop falling. When I try to do this though, the whole thing lags and kinda starts going wrong (rain falls only half way, different timing, etc).

The second thing, I think I'm animating wrong. When I create my figure, make arms and legs, body, head, neck, etc, put them all on different layers, group them, and yeah. But the problem is, when I rotate limbs when animating with keyframes, I always have trouble keeping the rotating axis in the same place, and the whole limb ends up kind of... Crawling away... Is there a percise way to keep things still like that? (like pin the two together at a point or something... Like a ragdoll) Or is the movement so miniscule that it doesn't really matter and ignore it, C&P the first frame and put it there (reset the figure, in a sense)?

Third: I can't upload SWFs to Image Shack anymore... And uploading them as GIFs messes it up. I've tried Photobucket, and I have the same problems. Anyone know a good uploader?

I'm not at all demanding help. I made a new thread because I'm erm... Sort of borrowing the forums so I can use it as a journal of sorts. Some place to keep a record of something. I home it doesn't create a problem. Yesss yes I'm just lazy.

(This ISN'T the reason I became active again (lul, reactive). Became active 'cuz I missed everyone. D Smile

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Glunnator · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject:

About the limbs floating away, you could try getting the rotation point in exactly the same spot as in the other frames. This is important. And hard. I know it is.

I also know that Flash CS4 has a new feature: the bone tool. This would do exactly what you would be wanting in this situation. Although I find it to be cheating a bit. It just loses the artisticcyness Flash used to have under Macromedia... :'(
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FXArch · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

Romeo lives <3
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:45 am Post subject:

CS4 is out already? God damn...

Arch lives!! Without an avatar...

Hmm... I guess I should slow down with my animations then. Just somtimes the snapping can get so retarded, to the point I have to zoom in to like 900% just to get it right.

Thanks.
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Glunnator · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

Yeah, CS4 is out, but I reverted to CS3 again 'cos I just hate, hate, hate, the layout of CS4.

...well...

...you have good luck with your stuffs, anyway xP
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks... Gonna call for some professional help this week.
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

Okay new problem: My tween (a raindrop) is speeding up. I dun like this. When I say speeding up, I mean that it's making a bigger movement on the last frame than the first. The raindrop is long. The first frame to the second, the raindrop goes down about the length of the raindrop. But the second to the last to the last frame, it goes down about one and a half times the length of the raindrop, making a gap. The gap is noticeable when many raindrops are playing side by side, it appears as if the rain disapears for a second as it hits that spot.

Has anyone had this problem before? I can send you a swf if you dunno what I mean.
Thanks.

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Glunnator · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject:

Check the 'Ease'. This should be on zero if you want all movement to be equal throughout the tween.

Easing tweens is a handy techniques indeed. I suggest you familiarize yourself with this handy little feature. You never know when it might come in handy =3
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:02 am Post subject:

Where's ease? I've punched though billions of menues looking for something like that.
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Glunnator · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:53 am Post subject:

Should be in properties box when you've got the motion tween frame selected.

Click that frame, then find the properties box.
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:30 am Post subject:

The ease is set to zero. But the last frame (the keyframe that is the end of the tween) and the one before it have a significant gap. None of the other frames have this gap... Did I make the tween wrong?
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Glunnator · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:10 pm Post subject:

Could you post a screenie? I'm cunfosed.
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:05 am Post subject:

Here's a screenie...

Ugh I've been having image shack issues lately.

so I guess it doesn't really speed up, but there's that strange... gap. I think there's something I did wrong with making the tween, but when I remake it, it doesn't go away.
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Glunnator · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject:

I cannot imagine how this has come to be so...

I see you're using CS3, which is good.
I see your tween, as seen in the timeline, seems okay, and doesn't seem different to what it should be...

I see a raindrop nicely going down as it should, and then... it doesn't.

I don't get it.

The only thing I can think of at the moment that could cause such a thing, would be the object's rotation point to differ from the first to the last frame.

Use your transformation tool... check that the centre dot is in the same place on the 'raindrop' of the first frame, as it is on the last frame.

If these locations appear correct, then I've run out of ideas...
...for now.

Hmmmmmmmmm.
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:08 am Post subject:

Wow... Glun that worked... Thankyou...
I moved the dot onto the cross, the [o--->][o] turns into a [o--->o] and it works fine now...
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