RE: FLASH: Quickie

[Marc Hoffman]

At 02:17 PM 12/15/98 -0600, you wrote:

>Leave it to me to not understand this process exactly.  Maybe it would help

>if I explained that I'm dealing with an image that I've traced and I was

>curious to know if it can be morphed into another image that I've traced.

>

>Otherwise, I'm just simply missing something.

>

>Russell E. Unger

>


Depends on complexity of the shape, but the answer is, probably not, unless

you can establish a point-to-point correlation between the shapes.  you can

use the arrow tool to pull the first shape into the second (perhaps!) and

do this gradually, using shape tweening between keyframes.  Or you can

create frame-by-frame animation that doesn't use tweening at all.  Or you

can try a simultaneous fade-out/ fade-in using alpha changes (tend to be

slooow) or mask layers (one layer gets revealed while the other gets

concealed).


One of my favorite morphs in Flash is at http://www.funkyfunk.com/ but it's

actually an 11-frame (I think), frame-by-frame animation played at rates up

to 30 fps (clicking increases the frame rate and speed of music).


It is really hard to do anything complex with the morphing tool.



Marc Hoffman

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