Flash Help

[geminisoldier]

Hey, I'm just starting out animating, umm... How do I make something simply move across the screen? I've tried motion tweening, but when I test the movie, it just stays in the original position.

[qstorm]

You made it a MovieClip, right?

[Super-Yombario]

Open up flash, press Prnt Scrn on keyboard, save as .GIF, upload when you post via Include Pic bar.

[Super-Yombario]

At 6/19/08 12:17 AM, qstorm wrote: You made it a MovieClip, right?

No, it must be GRAPHIC

[qstorm]

At 6/19/08 12:18 AM, Super-Yombario wrote: No, it must be GRAPHIC

For a motion tween? What the hell are you talking about? It could be either one.

[Super-Yombario]

Dude, it HAS to be graphic...try ir!

[UnrealCanine]

create object, make movie clip/graphic
select frame 10 and create new frame and move object
select frame 1-9 and right click 'motion tween'

[biohasard]

At 6/19/08 12:14 AM, geminisoldier wrote: Hey, I'm just starting out animating, umm... How do I make something simply move across the screen? I've tried motion tweening, but when I test the movie, it just stays in the original position.

guys for a motion tween it doesnt even have to be a symbol

[Rabid-Turtle]

At 6/19/08 12:49 AM, biohasard wrote:

At 6/19/08 12:14 AM, geminisoldier wrote: Hey, I'm just starting out animating, umm... How do I make something simply move across the screen? I've tried motion tweening, but when I test the movie, it just stays in the original position.

guys for a motion tween it doesnt even have to be a symbol

Amen brotha.
It just has to be grouped.
Actually, make sure you group (Ctrl+G) whatever you're tweening because you can only tween one object per layer.

[geminisoldier]

Thanks, I got it now.

[evil-kefka]

At 6/19/08 12:23 AM, Super-Yombario wrote: Dude, it HAS to be graphic...try ir!

...are you serious? Or are you just trying to be funny?

Why would it only work with a graphic? You can make a lot of things tween: a movie clip, a button, a graphic, a text field..

[milchreis]

At 6/19/08 12:54 AM, Rabid-Turtle wrote:

At 6/19/08 12:49 AM, biohasard wrote:

At 6/19/08 12:14 AM, geminisoldier wrote: Hey, I'm just starting out animating, umm... How do I make something simply move across the screen? I've tried motion tweening, but when I test the movie, it just stays in the original position.

guys for a motion tween it doesnt even have to be a symbol

Amen brotha.
It just has to be grouped.
Actually, make sure you group (Ctrl+G) whatever you're tweening because you can only tween one object per layer.

NO! this is not true.
When you motion tween a group, flash automatically creates a graphic symbol in the library =P

[Rabid-Turtle]

At 6/19/08 12:54 AM, Rabid-Turtle wrote:

Amen brotha.
It just has to be grouped.
Actually, make sure you group (Ctrl+G) whatever you're tweening because you can only tween one object per layer.

NO! this is not true.
When you motion tween a group, flash automatically creates a graphic symbol in the library =P

...What does this have to do with my post?

[CUCCOOLEGEND]

It has to be a symbol. I win. :)

[Ssilver7]

At 6/19/08 11:37 AM, milchreis wrote: NO! this is not true.
When you motion tween a group, flash automatically creates a graphic symbol in the library =P

Then you select the symbol as it is on stage and break it apart (Ctrl + B) then delete the symbol. Flash will allow groups in motion tweens.

[SenorLlama]

Ssilver7 is right, I've done many a motion tween with groups without it creating a symbol in my library. Actually any type of object (anything with a blue bounding box around it) can be used for motion tweens. All a tween needs in an instance of the same thing in both key frames to work.

What will not work is creating something, creating a duplicate frame a few frames down, then going back and grouping everything in both those frames. For some reason flash treats this as two different groups.

[NG-Unit]

At 6/19/08 04:40 PM, CUCCOOLEGEND wrote: It has to be a symbol. I win. :)

Sadly you don't, just put the object on the screen and tween it! Geez, it doesn't matter if its a symbol or not.

Anyway, did you make sure that on the last frame of the tween the object is in the a different position than it was on the first frame. Are you sure that you didn't add anything extra on the last frame that isn't on the first frame?

Does your tween look like - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - or ------------------------------->

If its the first one it means its a broken tween and one of the reasons for that is:

Adding extra items on the last frame of the tween
Completely changing the last frame of the tween
Making it a symbol on the last frame of the tween if it wasn't on the first frame
Etc.

If it is the second one then it means that its a good tween, if its a good tween and it still doesn't work then it probably means that you haven't moved the position of your object different from whats on the first frame.

Sometimes tweens just seem to act weird too. If theres something weird happening that you didn't set it as, then try making a new document and trying the same thing, it may work then.

[milchreis]

At 6/19/08 04:05 PM, Rabid-Turtle wrote: ...What does this have to do with my post?

you said it just has to be grouped, seemed like ou mean that it shouldn't be graphic nor mc.