A question about animating

[diffuse20]

I am working on a intro for a YouTube video, before I ask the question I will give a little idea of what is happening. The intro starts out with an Ambulance driving to the left of the screen, it then skids and, the doors slam open, my logo comes
rolling out. The rest doesn't need to be talked about.

My ambulance is going to have 2 main animations, the sirens flashing and the ambulance itself moving towards it's final
destination. I animated the ambulance using a classic tween, this was the easiest way, and I would like to keep it like this.
However, the sirens I threw on a separate layer and used key frames, and just followed the ambulance as it went along its path. This didn't come out clean and seemed to be to time consuming. I know there has to be a better way. This is what I want to know. If I animate the siren separately, it looks great, but I need to attach it to the ambulance roof. It needs to stay on the ambulance roof, while the ambulance is moving along its path. Is there away to attach two animations together? I want the ambulance and siren animated separately, and than attach the siren to the ambulance roof and have it stay on while the ambulance is moving.

I hope you can understand this, I can explain it better if you cant understand my problem.

Thanks, diffuse20.

[Max-Vador]

make the ambulance a movieclip (F8)

double click this new movieclip to enter the sub-menu where the ambulance graphic can be animated.

draw your siren inside this and convert that to a graphic(F8-> "graphic" from drop down menu)

animate the sirens flashing inside this graphic.

back on the mainstage animate the ambulance moving along the stage as you normally would, you will notice the graphic inside the movieclip will be "stuck" to the ambulance throughout the tween.

make sure the graphic of the sirens is marked as "Loop" in the properties menu and you'll see the siren animation looping along the main timeline as if you've done it seperately

enjoi

[diffuse20]

Thank you so much, you are a saint!

[Max-Vador]

At 10/30/12 06:47 PM, diffuse20 wrote: Thank you so much, you are a saint!

glad it helped buddy!

[Blitzkreig261]

sounds great!
link to your youtube channel?