Re: FLASH: Shape Tweening Woes

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Marc Hoffman wrote:


> At 03:06 AM 5/16/99 -0400, you wrote:

> >I'm tweening between a small circle and a "block" outlined M ... both with

> >black lines and a white fill. I don't like the way Flash tweens without hints

> >-- the circle seems to turn inside out in the process of tweening.

> >

>

> Hi Ken.

>

> In my experience, Flash does not properly tween shapes with enclosed spaces

> (such as "O").  I have worked around this by cutting the original graphic

> through the trapped space, to create two halves.  Place each on its own

> layer.  Split the desired end shape similarly. Create two tweens, one per

> layer.


In this case, I'm dealing  with a solid circle, and not an "O", but still this is

really good information to have Marc, Thanks.


> You may also need to add intermediate keyframes to a tween in order

> to nudge it a long a little at a time.


Well I took the hints off again and now it morphs nicely, no inside-outting,

which I'll swear it was doing before ...


Ken Sherwood



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