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Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008Beginner animation problem
I was trying to reproduce a training procedure for making an animation. The procedure starts by adding a symbol to a frame, reproduces the frame and changes the symbol a bit (making it a little narrower), and repeats that process in a series of frames. When I tried this, any change I made to my symbol (rotating it) for some reason made the same change in all of my onion frames. So the frames are connected in some way, and my shape is actually the same object in all of them. How do I make independent copies of the shape so that I can make it change in each frame? next to the onion frames button is an edit multiple frames button, make sure that is not on if you don't want to edit multiple frames at one time Thanks! It's not the "frames" that are "connected" - it's that the one and only symbol you have is what is referred to as an "instance" of the object in the library. Symbols are a powerful feature of Flash - you can reuse them as many times as you like without bloating the file size of your SWF. Now, if you have 100 instances of this 1 symbol on stage, then edit the object inside of it - all the other 99 instances will be affected. What you want to do is DUPLICATE (right click over it) and give it a new name. Then edit the duplicate. -chris  SignatureAdobe Certified Expert www.keyframer.com www.mudbubble.com ----------------------------------- (if you want to email me, don't look) - >I was trying to reproduce a training procedure for making an animation. The > procedure starts by adding a symbol to a frame, reproduces the frame and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > so > that I can make it change in each frame? |
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