In Class Mon Jan18th

Examples

Story of Stuff

Home on the Range

Project 1 & 2 Due Thursday Jan 21st

Motion Path, the 4th Animation Style

1) Create a Symbol on a layer

2) Click the 'Add Motion Guide' button

3) Select a frame on the Guide layer that matches the fame of your Symbol and create a Key frame

4) Using the Pencil tool draw the path you want the symbol to follow on the Guide layer

5) Attach the Symbol to the beginning of the line

6) Select a Frame as an end point on the Symbol's layer and create a key frame

7) Insert a Frame on the Guide Layer that matches the last frame on the Symbol layer

8) Attach the Symbol to the end of the path

9) Insert a Motion Tween on the Symbol's layer

Good Luck!

Buttons Symbols

- Up - How the button looks Normally

- Over - How the button looks when the cursor is over top of it

- Down - How the button looks when the button is pressed while over top of it.

- Hit - The area sensitive to cursor.

Basic Actionscript

- Timeline Actions

--- look under 'Global Functions' --> 'Time Line Control'

- Button Actions

--- look under 'Global Functions' --> 'Movie Clip Control'

Both can use 'Global Functions' --> 'Browser/Network'

Controlling the Timeline

On the Timeline

- Stop();

- gotoAndPlay("frame #");

- gotoAndStop("frame #");

ie.... gotoAndStop(134);

On Buttons

- on (release) {"what you want to do"};

ie... on (release) {    gotoAndPlay(1);     }