Scene mirroring

[Xx-Hoxinator-xX]

Is there anyway to copy a scene, and mirror it?
So, say if the character's walking across the screen from left to right, you can make another scene of him walking right to left?

[pyromaniac616]

yeah, just copy the character from the last left to right walking frame, reverse it, and so on.

[Xx-Hoxinator-xX]

At 9/2/08 08:36 AM, pyromaniac616 wrote: yeah, just copy the character from the last left to right walking frame, reverse it, and so on.

I tried reversing it, but it just makes the character walk backwards.

[zedd56]

um, no that wont exactly work.
that way it will look like the character is walking backwards instead of being turned around and walking the other way.

What you need is a movie clip.
Movie clips are little flash movies inside bigger flash movies and you can create copies of them and place them all over your movie. When you go to the library and edit that movie clip, all the copies will also have changed to reflect the edit.

But; you can free transform each copy, or instance, of that movie clip without changing the others. This means that you can flip the movie clip horizontally so instead of walking to the right, it appears as though your character is walking to the left.

[Neo-13]

Also, to put the animation into a movie clip, select all the frames and right click>copy frames.

[DashDingo]

Or if they're already in a movie clip, just throw up an _xscale = -100; on everything.