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CaptainCapitalism — CC's Shape Tween Tutorial
Published: 2007-03-29 02:21:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 31307; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 468
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Well, this was kind of boring to make, and probably more boring to read, but hey, it's a utilitarian venture, what're ya gonna do?A few people asked me how to do Flash Movies like mine. Really, I got my start when somebody showed me Shape Hints, part of the focus of this tutorial. So anyway, I thought I'd share some knowledge. If you have Flash, watch this. If you don't have it, you won't know what's going on, and you'll be bored to tears.
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i found this about a year ago... didn't send it to anyone... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SPOOKS
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God damn it, NO. NO NO NO. OMFG, no fucking chain letters. Just...NO.
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that really helped! thanks
i wish i read this tutorial earlier = =
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Adding this to my favs if I do falsh stuff. Nicely done and I like the detail work in it.
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Hmmm... pretty insightful, I remember some of this in my flash classes a few quarters back. I guess now I've got a reference.
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Is there a way to make the shape hints bigger? When I tried it, they were too small to see the letter.
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Not that I know of. They stay the same size no matter how much you zoom in. Although, I don't really have any trouble seeing the letters. Maybe its your monitor or something....
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Yeah my monitor isn't the best in the world. =/ Oh well
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Well, all my animations really are is mostly a lot of simple, individual shape tweens stacked on top of one another. Remember, Layers are your friend.
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so whats why my shape tweens are all messed up . . . whats the long cut for ctrl + shift + h? Can you tell em i wanna know as much as possible about flash
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I don'tthink there is a long cut. I'm fairly sure you have to do the ctrl + shift + H move.
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... Now I DO want to "falcon punch an infant."
FALCON.... PUUNCH!
Thanks for this. I barely ever use shape tweens, but the ones I do tend to lag on slower computers and whatnot because of jumbly jiggers like the ones displayed, only a whole bunch of 'em.
Goes to show you, you learn something new everyday. I just wish I knew this before I became obsessed with symbols and motion tweening.
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Oh man, I love symbols. They're pretty much the only way I know right now to get jointed limbs to move with any realism. I'm pretty sure there's another way, involving guide layers and such, but I have yet to find it.
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How did you get yours onto DA?
Da will not let me post mine!
Like what do you save it as? Or just tell me how plz.
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Well, did you try to upload the flash file or the swf file? You have to export the movie into a .swf first. Then you need a preview image, normally a PNG or JPEG. Use Paint or PS for that part.
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I tryed to upload the swf file. Isn't that the one that you have to do? Do you have to have a preview image?
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Yes. A preview image is necessary.
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How do you get it? I dont have one for mine... Or could I use one of yours?
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Well, just make a normal image file that you want the preview to be. Personally, I normally export an image from my movie, pick a roughly square section of it that I want to be a preview, resize it to be about 200x200 pixels, and save it as a PNG. Then, when you get asked for a preview, just upload the file you made. Its pretty simple.
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Oh...
That I could do...
Thanks for the help. I'll message you again if I need help.
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Hi 
I knew about shape tweens and hints but I never quite envisioned how or when I could actually use them for anything.
So I found how you used those things to make the '3d' cube look like it's turning to be really neat. Thanks for this quick tutorial!
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