Re: FLASH: many symbols following one path? From the newbie

[Erik [gearik] Mattheis]

>  How can I make a number of symbols follow the same path? I can make one

>symbol follow a path with no problem.


You can acheive this in a few ways involving Movie Clips using one motion path.


Just make the object traveling along the path a movie clip who's contents

are all the different symbols you want to follow the same path - ie if you

wanted a cat, dog, and a marmaset to follow the same path, put your cat in

the first frame of the movie clip, the dog in the second, your marmaset in

the third.


Whenever your animal enters the main timeline, have an action telling the

movie clip to goto and stop at the appropriate frame.


An example of this would be "Uh, coming soon..." at

<http://www.gourmandizer.com/stuff/> where I have nine navigation buttons

use the same motion guide.


You can also save yourself a ton of tweening information by using the same

technique ... the link to the Heart site on the same page uses the same

tweening information for 81 symbols (letters of the alphabet, plus all the

graphics in the movie that kinda pop in at you ... the effect being 240

less key frames and something like 1,280 less frames with tweening

information.

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       Erik [gearik] Mattheis

<http://www.gourmandizer.com>

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