FLASH: favorite sites

[Gunnar Sundberg]

Could all u folks please send me youre favorite flash site so I could use it in my lessons.


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Datum: den 16 maj 1999 21:47

�mne: Re: FLASH: Shape Tweening Woes



>Hi Ken,

>

>> 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.

>> So I set three hints, A, B, and C. See below.

>> (Hope you're viewing this with a monospaced font!)

>> SURPRISE! With these hints in place, the tweening effect is

>> *destroyed* ... instead, between the two keyframes, I get little

>> dots and short line segments, and no fill (white), between the

>? keyframes -- though they *do* move from the circle's position to the

>M.

>> Does anyone have a clue?

>Sure.

>

>> Seen this effect?

>Sure, many times.

>You haven't done much shape tweening have you?

>To have your tweens look like they are exploding is very common.

>

>Why you and Flash have so much trouble tweening the O to the M is that

>the O consists of 2 shapes, an exterior one and an interior one, whereas

>the M has just has one shape. What needs to be done is to add an

>interior shape to the M and manipulate that.

>

>Go to the center of the M and add a very small circle fill it in in a

>different color than the fill of the M. Remove the the new fill to

>create a hole in the M.

>

>Next, add 4 shape hints to the external corners (to prevent rotation)

>NW,  SW, SE and NE positions of the O and adjust the hints to the M.

>Always start in the upper left position (NW) and go counter clockwise.

>If counter clockwise doesn't work then try clockwise.

>

>At this point you should have a controlled tween with a tiny hole in the

>M.

>If you like the tween add a new layer and place a keyframe below the M

>and add a fill of the same color as the fill in the M and place it so it

>will cover the hole in the M without going past the border of the M.

>

>Add or adjust hints to the external shape to get it the way you want.

>

>To change the interior shape you can change the position and/or the

>shape of the interior hole of the M.

>

>If you want the interior hole to end sooner then you need to create an

>inteermediate shape. Determine the place you want the interior shape to

>end at. Insert a keyframe one frame before that. You will likely have to

>add a new interior shape and rehint (do this later). Now you have to

>create a temp shape hint of the middle shape (A without a hole) to the

>final shape when that is done add a keyframe (B) in the frame after the

>middle shape. Add the hole back into A and hint the O to the A. Then

>hint the B (without a hole) to the M.

>

>O................M

>O................M  (with hole in M)

>O......A.........M  

>O......AB........M  

>

>So now you will have a Tween from the O to the the A middle shape which

>has a hole. And a tween without a hole from B to M. The B is the tweened

>object that you created from a temp hinting of A to M.

>

>The key to doing complicated shape tweens effectively and quickly is to

>learn how to hint effectively and not wasting time on deciding whether

>you want to hint or not. Do it quickly and don't be fustrated if your

>first few attempts don't work.

>

>Having to add hints is not a bug, it is a fact of life.

>The same shape tween located at two different positions on the screen

>may require shape tweening in one positioon and not the other because of

>the shape tweening estimates (and rounds off) the positions of the

>tween.

>

>Whenever posible place each component of a twenn on its own layer. This

>will generally reduce the neeed or the complexity of hinting.

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