Panning,zooming,q uality,menu

[BGStudios]

I use Macromedia Flash 8 professional. I perfectly understand the process of animating and how to animate.
Now what I wanna know Is how to zoom In and pan on the animation. I don't want to make just boring animations with no camera movements.

I would also want to know how to make a menu screen for your animation and how to add quality options(low,medium,high,best). By menu I mean something like a PLAY button a OPTIONS button and stuff like that. Any help would be very much appreciated.

[ExtremeFudgeMaster]

You can zoom and pan by changing your animations to symbols and then tweening the size and locations.

[BGStudios]

At 6/10/12 06:17 PM, ExtremeFudgeMaster wrote: You can zoom and pan by changing your animations to symbols and then tweening the size and locations.

I didn't really understand you. "changing your animations to symbols and then tweening the size and locations."
When I change them to symbols....what do I exactly tween then?

[Blounty]

If you want to do it the symbol way, finish animating without zooms and pans, and then copy all the frames and put them into a movieclip. You then have just the Movieclip on the timeline which you can move around and tween.

Or use a virtual camera.

[BGStudios]

At 6/20/12 09:18 AM, Blounty wrote: If you want to do it the symbol way, finish animating without zooms and pans, and then copy all the frames and put them into a movieclip. You then have just the Movieclip on the timeline which you can move around and tween.

Or use a virtual camera.

Thank! I just got a VCam. Also mind If I ask you another question? In this video by Alpha-Nuva were hes showing how to make a madness combat animation skip to 6.59 you'll see that he also has a VCam. But I'm wondering how he got the quality options on the bottom of the VCam there. Is that possible to do with your downloaded VCam or do you have to make one yourself In order to do that?

[BGStudios]

Thank! I just got a VCam. Also mind If I ask you another question? In this video by Alpha-Nuva were hes showing how to make a madness combat animation skip to 6.59 you'll see that he also has a VCam. But I'm wondering how he got the quality options on the bottom of the VCam there. Is that possible to do with your downloaded VCam or do you have to make one yourself In order to do that?

Sorry...forgot to put the link to the YT vid http://youtu.be/UCtu3GZpBoU

[Blounty]

http://freelanceflashgames.com/news/2009/02/17/how-to-make-a -quality-button/