No more motion tweens for me.

[dylan-double-c]

How about you? I rather dislike tweens. Always have, honestly, I could never imagine why.
So I was thinking a way around them and instantly I thought, "AckshunScriptuh!"
So what I did was make an OH SO DETAILED Movie Clip of some guy walking and applied this code:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += 3;
}

Would this be smarter considering file size?

[dylan-double-c]

At 10/25/09 08:22 PM, AlternativaPlatforms wrote: It depends on what type of flash it is trying to be.

Animation.

[DashDingo]

I wouldn't worry about file size. Motion tweens would make things way easier than coding it, simply because you can choose how much time it takes to get from point A to point B, and preview it in the timeline.

[PBass]

Tweens have their uses, don't abandon them. But if you want to learn to animate well, I wouldn't suggest coding at all.

[Hellraiser]

Black people can't have green eyes.

[CybermonkeyStudios]

By doing this you abandon all possibilities of using easing which is a great way to get the illusion of a natural progression of motion. I would highly recommend staying with tweens, just make sure not to overuse them. They're quite useful and time saving.

[Fion]

At 10/26/09 02:39 AM, CybermonkeyStudios wrote: By doing this you abandon all possibilities of using easing which is a great way to get the illusion of a natural progression of motion. I would highly recommend staying with tweens, just make sure not to overuse them. They're quite useful and time saving.

onClipEvent(load) {
dx = 3;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += dx;
dx +=0.1
}

Along with many other methods for doing more complicated easing. Tweens can be reproduced using code, and sometimes this may be advantageous, however there are often advantages to using the inbuilt tweening, you should never do away with either method if you want to be able to achieve many complicated tasks. Nevertheless, for basic tweening it's most likely to be easier and less stressful if you just use the tween function within flash.

[hdxmike]

Normally i dont condone the use of tweens, at least in excess but really, akshunskribd?

Yes indeed it is possible to script it but then your animation relies on script to run, a good animator can export in flash 1 with little or no problems, dont rely on those things in flash , if you can do it on paper then good otherwise no . I draw the line at tweening when you need to move a large scenery object or a character running for a while but script?

Its easier and more effective to tween , basically tweening IS the code, just prefabricated for easy use.
Dont make the good people at adobe feel like they have wasted their time :'(

[Nuttro]

True, maths in actionscript does have more advantages than the normal tween, but wouldn't it just be easier not to? I mean, it's not to hard to tween, ease and position. You just creating problems for yourself... then again I fail at maths so what do I know

[geterkikzkid]

At 10/26/09 04:20 AM, hdxmike wrote:

Dont make the good people at adobe feel like they have wasted their time :'(

Holy shit, I'm getting old and behind the times. I keep forgetting Adobe Acquired Macromedia in '05.

(Isn't it funny when companies buy their rivals?)

[dylan-double-c]

At 10/25/09 09:27 PM, Hellraiser wrote: Black people can't have green eyes.

Okay, what the hell...