Re: FLASH: Movie clip design

[dylan]

>Also, does anyone have a good solution for dealing effectively with

>positioning clips that scale or move around a lot? I find myself dropping

>the little cross-hair/circle things in approximate positions and then

>fine-tuning them through several iterations of test movie. I've considered

>creating a dummy symbol for positioning purposes by cutting and pasting the

>clip's extreme positions or sizes, but haven't implemented it. Wasn't sure

>it would be worth the time to do that. Thoughts?

>

>len harrison

>instructional designer

>

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

>


>Len, i think dummy symbols work really well for positioning. its really

>easy to create the whole clip in a symbol, and then copy the frames into a

>clip once youve got the positioning down. then replacing the symbol with

>the clip is a snap, by just double cicking on it and changing it to the

>clip in the instance dialogue box. of course this is weird if you're

>working with a movie that doesn't have enough frames to play the symbol or

>if you are using stop frame actions. also what you said about making movie

>clips big and scaling down seems to make sense.

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Dylan Champagne

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