Re: FLASH: Quickie

[Marc Hoffman]

At 12:28 PM 12/15/98 -0600, you wrote:

>Can someone give me a quick boot-to-the rear regarding some "morphing"...or

>at least how I can get a shape to transform into another shape?

>

>Thanks,

>

>Russell E. Unger

>


Keep the shapes simple . Tween several simple shapes on different layers

rather than one complex shape on one layer. Use Shape Hints (kept in

rotational order, or they won't work) to let Flash know where particular

points are ending up.  If a tween is too complex, insert extra keyframes to

 reduce the amount of morph from one to the next.  Remember these must be

shapes, not symbols (if starting with a symbol, break it apart in the first

keyframe, then add another keyframe to create a second instance of the

shape, then alter the second instance).


Motion tweening (using symbols or groups) is a lot easier to handle.  So,

if you can reduce your morph to several symbols (again, on separate

layers), it will be a simpler production.


HTH



Marc Hoffman

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