Re: FLASH: help: shape hints

[Karin Christensen]

I've found with complicated shape tweens you need to nudge it along.

If you try to use just one tween on a complex shape it distorts along

the way.  Tween small changes at a time, check along the way to see

how it is going and use shape hints as needed.  When it gets distorted

it seems to be where you have many line segments that are tweening at

the same time.  If you click on a line you can see that you have short

areas that that make up the whole line.  Just tween that one area in

one tween, then tween another short area in another tween.  Sometimes

it helps to add a new keyframe next to the ending keyframe of a tween

then add in a small change that isn't tweened to go on to the next

tween. You can get better results too, if your shape doesn't have an

outline.  It is much easier to do than explain.

Karin


> This is surely a dumb questions, but...does anyone have any advice

re:

> shape hints? I'm trying to do a simple morph (a lightbulb into a

> question mark) but it seems like the more shape hints I add, the

more

> distorted it becomes. I thought if i added tons of hints t would

make it

> easier for Flash to interpret my intentions, but is this assumption

> incorrect? maybe just a few well placed hints works best? Any

> suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

>

> Matt Spiegler




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