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Jamoky:
hey twentyfour, I actually have a question about exporting animated GIFs in flash. How do you export if you are using movie clip symbols? 'Cause those only work in .swf
twentyfour:
I'm not 100% familiar with animated gif works, but I'll tinker with Flash when I get home. :) I've been away at my sisters wedding so I'm kinda way behind on emails, this forum and most importantly.... my comic :(
First thing I'm gonna offer though is the most underused symbol of all time, the "graphic" why use a movie clip when you can use a graphic symbol set to 'play once' or 'loop'. A movie clip should mainly just be used if the symbol needs to be clickable(like in a game or something) and you don't need that in an animated .gif. A movie clip remains static while you are in the .fla so when you scrub back and forth it just sits on frame 1, a graphic set to loop or play once will scrub properly so it's easier to synch ytour timing up with other portions of the anim
*phew*
that help any? If not hit me up in a PM :)
For that matter if anyone has any questions about Flash animation fire em off at me, I'll try and offer as helpful advice as I can(just don't ask me about actionscripting, I'm not too strong with that)
jhocking:
--- Quote from: twentyfour ---if anyone has any questions about Flash animation fire em off at me, I'll try and offer as helpful advice as I can(just don't ask me about actionscripting, I'm not too strong with that)
--- End quote ---
Whereas ActionScript is the part I'm strongest at; the animation features, like how to set up tweening, sometimes don't make sense to me.
twentyfour:
Heh, tweening is easy once you get the hang of it, although making it look really good is something very few people can handle. Tween's have a helluva bad rap(check the newgrounds forums for 300+ post threads about why tweening sucks ass :P), but it's all just animation.
Crazy internet and it's mass of 14 year olds who think they know everything :)
thermodynamics:
yeah, if you are having doubts about tweening, don't sweat it. i got playing with flash 4 hours a day for two or three days. now it is like second nature. you just have to practice.... its like anything else. but, definitely don't be discouraged.
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