How To Draw PT.7 - Animation Setup

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IN THIS LESSON:
you will see how a larger scaled flash animation is layed out, and you'll hopefuly find some ways to make your setup more organized and animation better quality!

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[Reilly Moore]

Cool! What frame rate do you use?

[JazzaStudios]

average 30 fps

[TheLittleSpanishFlea]

You sir are my flash hero! Been searching for ages to find a tutorial from someone who's barable to watch and you're prefect!

[AlexTehGr8]

This is EXACTLY what i needed :)

I'm starting a very big project and I've been looking for tips on how to start off, thanks!

[domsuyang]

I imported larry 2 swf into flash to see how you did panning and camera zooming in Larry 2 as opposed to the composer.

i noticed you use a big frame (Mask?) with a cross hair which seems to simulate a camera.

i cant seem to find any tutorials online on this method of zooming and panning.

but it seem alot easier than resizing all my objects.

how do you do it?

[funnyjunk64]

thanks but i already found out lol but this still helps

[Anthony Pillai]

wrong, a graphic can be seen on the scene. a moviclip can be animated inside itself, like if you want to make a fire animaton, but dont want to copy and paste it into each frame, just make it within a movieclip and drag and drop it onto your stage. graphics are stationary and cause less lag. get your facts straight dodo.

[Anthony Pillai]

Its Flash Professional, if your using flash, just select your whole picture and hit F8 to convert into a movieclip (if its animated) or graphic (if its stationary) then you can move it around. if you dont have flash, then your screwed. if you didnt know this maybe this video is a little advanced for you.....

[Anthony Pillai]

its flash CS4.

[Anthony Pillai]

@funnyjunk64, It depends if you want a simple or complex preloader, a complex one takes a while to explain, but a simple one is easy. make a moviclip with the word LOADING inside of it, open the actions tab and add this code:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) { ifFramesLoaded("end") { root.play(); }

}

then flag the last frame in your movie/game as "end".

[if you want a more complex one, download it from newgrounds[dot]com or google it since my char count is running out. :P]

[freebierotator]

Wacom tablet!

[dyunior]

man i've seen this in NEWGROUNDS!!. great!!