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Problems with Tweening

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mRJoLLy

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Apr 14, 2000
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Hi there, I am new to Flash and just getting into the finer points of Animation.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have come across a problem animating as follows:<br><br>I am recreating the start trailer that is at the beginning of the James bond films, where you see the “gun barrel” as it is known.&nbsp;&nbsp;My problem starts with getting the blood to run down the screen.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can animate a rectangle off the stage which then streaches down to the stage no problems, but the blood is actually a selection of curves (runny blood).&nbsp;&nbsp;I am having problems getting the effect to work with a changing “curvy” line at the bottom.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>I get a dotted line for the Tween, no matter what I do.&nbsp;&nbsp;Can anybody give me a pointer to get this very important animation working.&nbsp;&nbsp;Everything else is working fine :)<br>
 
Hi there I read ur problem in the forum and liked ur idea . the main concept in the shape tweening is that the object should be break apart, so if ur object is first moving (motion tween) the frame at which u want to start it to morph(Shape tween) u should first create two keyframes one is teh ending poing of that object and the other is the starting point of shape tweening but u should know that in motion tween the object&nbsp;&nbsp;must be grouped and in shape tween the object should be break apart.Hope that ur problem is solved now.
 
Not an answer, but a nice extra effect tip...<br><br>Another little trick that you may want to try, is to get the blood looking a little 3D.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can do this by obviously filling the second keyframe, that nabeel was talking about, with a gradient fill to create the dark and light highlights.<br><br>When you create your far keyframe that you are morphing TO, select the fill tool, then the button to the right of the fill lock button on the left.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you now click your morphed image, you can rotate, squash and manipulate the shading so that it looks more realistic.&nbsp;&nbsp;This will tween smoothly with the shape that you have created.
 
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