Re: FLASH: Total Newbie -- Shape Tween ??

[Helen Triolo]

Charles Montgomery wrote:

> 

> All,

> 

> Starting to play around with shape tweenings and having no trouble with the

> simple circle to square variety presented in the online tutorials. But I'm

> wondering if it is possible to shape tween imported graphics. Say an animal

> face to a human face. I can import the bitmaps just fine, but all attempts

> to shape tween them fail. I've tried several approaches based on my tenuous

> understanding of things like grouping/un and tracing bitmaps, but so far

> all I've achieved is that I can now get a drawn shape to tween to the rough

> shape of an imported bitmap and then switch to it. Not what I want at all.

> 

> Am I just overlooking something mind-numbingly simple? Or is this in the

> nature of imported bitmaps? Help me Mr/Ms wizards!

> 

Doesn't sound mind-numbingly simple to me!  But can you change the

settings on the trace bitmap low enough that you can get discrete shapes

that you can then tween?  If so, it would help (I think) to put the

different parts of the faces on different layers (ctrl-c, new layer,

ctrl-shift-v to get them in the same place as the originals, for each

object to be tweened) so you can tween them individually (like a nose

layer, a face outline layer, etc).  There ends my vast knowledge of

tweening.  Perhaps someone will speak up about shape hints, which might

help too.


Helen

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