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- xpxhxoxexnxixx
Hey guys, Im making a flash movie for a landing page that involves a line with alot of curves being drawn, after which, the line ends at the main logo.
In order to make the line, i had to draw it, then erase chunks of it and reverse the frames so it 'appears'. However, what I wanted to do, was to make the line move as it was revealing, to make it look like the page was 'following' the line being drawn until it reached its ending point. There are about 100 keyframes total that were used to draw the line.
My question is, how can i get all of those frames to move along a motion guide or something so that i can make the whole line move from one end to the other as its being drawn? I tried to make a motion guide but i cant select where it starts and stops because they are all individual frames on the layer. Any help? Thanks!
- BattleAxe0
put it in a movie clip
- rayborn30000
Too much text. I am going ADD and I will click on something else now....
- fyoucher10
Like Battle Axe said.
First, create your animation inside of a movieclip...make it one LOOONG pan if need be. In your case, it does sound like thats what you need to do. So make one big ass canvas and animate the line doing it's thing inside.
Next, you'll try to simulate a camera pan. The easiest way to do that is to set the movieclip to "Graphic-play one' so that you can see the contents of the movieclip animating within the timeline in the authoring mode. Basically, now you'll be 'animating that animation'. Then, just add keyframes and adjust the scale, positioning, color etc etc etc of that movieclip...and then add motion tweens so that it pans that mc around.
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
thx!
- Milan0
wow, i've been working with flash for 10 years and never knew about the "graphic-play once" trick to see animated movieclip in authoring mode. thanks fyoucher1!
- moogchild0
Better yet, use vCam.