Re: FLASH: Thanks John- now another question about motion paths not working

[Tim Underwood]

Hey,

    Well the letter is just going backwards along the circle because its the

closest way to get to the ending point.  To fix this, assuming you don't

need to go all the way around the circle, you can just put a small break in

the circle.  If you do need to have it go all the way around then you will

probably have to add a key frame in the guide layer that fills in that small

gap when the letters are at least half way through the circle.


Hope you can understand that :)


-Tim


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Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:49 PM

Subject: FLASH: Thanks John- now another question about motion paths not

working



> Thanks about the flying text tutorial.  My brain hurts looking at it for

> now.  :)

>

> Ok here's my next problem, I have to make a company name follow in a

> circle.  Each letter is on it's own layer, but they all have to follow the

> same motion path.  I made the path (a circle) then dragged each letter

> layer under the path so they all are linked to the same circle path.

>

> For the first letter; I entered a keyframe, dragged the letter around the

> circle and stopped on the other side of the circle just short of its

> original starting point.  When I tween the frames, the letter won't follow

> the circle.  It goes backwards a little bit and stops.  Why?

>

> I need the whole line of text to continue in  a rotating circle.  What am

I

> doing wrong?  I tried to follow the MM tutorial with the 2 boats going in

a

> circle path but it's not working for the letters.

>

> Thanks again.

>

> Sienna

>

> P.S.  Hi Scott, welcome to the list.  If you figure this one out before

me,

> come down to my office and help me before I have to turn in my project!

LOL

>

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