Re: Motion Guide won't work

[Marc]

Hi,

    Just wanted to say thanks. It's sometimes teh little things you forget. It

ended up that the object I wanted to follow the motion path wasn't a symbol -

well, one was and the other wasn't, but you get the picture.


Thanks again


Marc


Barcillo wrote:


> I had the problems with motion guide sometime ago, I found 3 diferent

> problems:

>

> 1.- When I was using Big simbols in normal view, I didn't lock the simbol

> correctly to the beggining and the end. That was corrected by zooming in and

> locking the simbol precisely with the motion guide.

>

> 2.- I had problems when I tried using a very complicated motion guide, seems

> that the path was cutting itself at some points and the simbol couldn't use

> the guide. I draw the guide again and it worked.

>

> 3.- I couldn't add a motion guide to buttons. I created a symbol with the

> button inside it, and tweened that symbol. ( I don't know if this is the

> best way, but it worked for me).

>

> Check if any of this simple cases apply to you. As Carrie says:

> "sounds too simple but it's really easy to forget "

> Barcillo

>

> Salud!... os

> Barcillo

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Carrie Dailey <struxurestc [dot] net>

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com <flashershocker [dot] com>

> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 7:25 AM

> Subject: RE: Motion Guide won't work

>

> >I know this sounds too simple but I have forgotten this step myself before.

> >Have you made sure that the shape you are trying to tween along a path is a

> >symbol?  You can't tween shapes that you haven't specified as a symbol.

> >Like I said, I know it sounds too simple but it's really easy to forget

> that

> >part.  :)

> >Carrie

> >

> >

> >>

> >>

> >> Hi guys,

> >>

> >>     I know that Tween's with Motion Guides are easy. I've done them

> >> often, yet when trying it today, I was amazed when it didn't work. I

> >> even went back to the lesson. did it there, and then tried again!

> >>     It still didn't work!

> >>     Is there a little thing I'm missing out?

> >>     Here is what I do

> >>         1. Insert layer that will tween an image

> >>         2. Set up the tween. Make sure it does actually tween.

> >>         3. Insert 'Add Motion Guide'

> >>         4. Draw path for object to follow

> >>         5. Smooth path

> >>         6. Turn snapping on

> >>         7. Go to the last key frame of the tweened object and place

> >> object on Motion path

> >>         8. Go to the first key frame of tweened object and place object

> >> on motion path

> >>         9. Play movie

> >>

> >>     If I'm doing anything wrong, please let me know

> >>

> >> Thanks,

> >>

> >> Marc

> >>

> >>

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