Creating Frame-By-Frame Animations - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual
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To use shape hints:
Select the first keyframe in a shape-tweened sequence.
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Select Modify > Shape > Add Shape Hint.
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The beginning shape hint appears as a red circle with the letter a somewhere on the shape.
Move the shape hint to a point that you want to mark.
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Select the last keyframe in the tweening sequence.
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The ending shape hint appears somewhere on the shape as a green circle with the letter a.
Move the shape hint to the point in the ending shape that should correspond to the first point
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you marked.
Play the animation again to see how the shape hints change the shape tweening. Move the shape
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hints to fine-tune the tweening.
Repeat this process to add additional shape hints. New hints appear with the letters that follow
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(b, c, and so on).
You can choose to view all shape hints, and you can remove shape hints.
To see all shape hints:
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Select View > Show Shape Hints. The layer and keyframe that contain shape hints must be
active for Show Shape Hints to be available.
To remove a shape hint:
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Drag it off the Stage.
To remove all shape hints:
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Select Modify > Shape > Remove All Hints.
Creating frame-by-frame animations
To create a frame-by-frame animation, you define each frame as a keyframe and create a different
image for each frame. Each new keyframe initially contains the same contents as the keyframe
preceding it, so you can modify the frames in the animation incrementally.
To create a frame-by-frame animation:
Click a layer name to make it the active layer, and select a frame in the layer where you want the
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animation to start.
If the frame isn't already a keyframe, select Insert > Timeline > Keyframe to make it one.
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Create the artwork for the first frame of the sequence.
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You can use the drawing tools, paste graphics from the Clipboard, or import a file.
Click the next frame to the right in the same row and select Insert > Timeline > Keyframe, or
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right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and select Insert Keyframe from the
context menu.
This adds a new keyframe whose contents are the same as those of the first keyframe.
Alter the contents of this frame on the Stage to develop the next increment of the animation.
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