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stacking inside frames

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unnatural

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Dec 7, 2004
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Umm ok, total noob here. Making signatures for a gaming forum. Anyway I create a new document and animate it to say 50 frames. No problem. Then I want to stack text(or another picture) on top and have that stay there for say 25 frames. Here is where trouble starts. It is only there for the first frame. After that it somehow goes behind original and I cant get it come to top and stay there? Darn it. I will tell everyone how wonderful you are if you could assist me. Thank you very much [peace]
 
you need a copy of each object on each frame that you want it to appear on, the frames are not transparent unless you create them that way, the easiest way to create what you want, is to make the first layer, drag the layer (in the frames object box) down to the duplicate symbol, so that it create another complete copy of that frame. You can do this as many times as you want, and you can alter each individual frame without it affecting the one before or after.

If you are say, trying to get text to move from left to right, start with one frame, place the text to the left, duplicate the frame, shift the text duplicate THIS frame, and continue.



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Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..
 
Thank you for your reply. I didnt know you could do this. I have used this animate thing previously on 2 different files but now it doesnt work and I thought I may have something turned on or off. It makes it so easy to use. Click modify, animation, animate selection. Either that or I m so mixed up I should just go lay in the street.
 
you should be able to animate as long as you have an object selected- ensure you have a blue selection line around the object you are trying to animate (for the quick anmation you are talking about)

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Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..
 
Should I not be able to import a picture and paste it on top in any frame? It either goes to back or turns invisible (im not sure which) except in first frame, where it seems to work fine. I am convinced there is something somewhere in this program set so that when I try to add another picture or text it makes it either go behind or turn invisible after the very first frame. ( I wish my street was busier, its really cold out there lol)
 
are you using frames or layers?
if you are using layers, then shift the object layer to the top in the layers box. If you are using frames, then the object should only appear on the frame you selected and placed it on.

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Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..
 
Ok, like the first post says frames. Anyway I deleted my whole program and reinstalled it. It works beautiful now.So this is how I do it. If I want a signature that is 50 frames I import a pic, animate it to 50 frames. I set it so there is no movement, no direction, no anything. Now I have a pic that is 50 frames long. Then I import another pic or text onto it. I can animate it the same as first pic if i want, or set movement or opaqueness(is that a word?)to whatever. I have tried using layers but do not really understand that. anyway thanks for attempting to help me. I am not sure I could get my point across. I still believe something was set wrong so I could not do what I wanted. Unless there is some kind of glitch and as I sift through forums I am thinking it could be. Thanks again. Peace to you and yours.
 
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