Re: FLASH: Shape hints?

[John Croteau]

Hi Bill,


Some if not most shape morphing in Flash involves more than a little bit

of luck or acceptance of what comes out.

Hinting is a skill that must be learned, primarily by practicing and

experimenting.


One of the primary rules of hinting is to start at the upper left hand

corner and add hints counterclockwise. The next rule is if it doesn't

work counterclockwise try it clockwise :-)


If an object needs hinting I usually start with 4 hints at strategic

points usually at the four 'corners' of the 2 images.


Hinting, intermediate shapes and separating elements are the 3 ways to

have a shpe tween do what you want it to rather than what it wants to

do.


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