Duplicating an animated shape
Hey guys... I really want some help, it's driving me insane.
I have an animated shape that I want to duplicate multiple times as well as MODIFY slightly the duplicated shape...
I know you may be confused since you see I've duplicated them...but the issue for me is to be able to duplicate these shapes fairly quickly and to be able to modify them without affecting the original... It seems that when I PRECOMP the duplicated shape and try to remove or add a circle, it affects the original set...
What am I doing wrong? I just want to be able to create a shape, animate it - and duplicate it and modify the amount of shapes in the quickest possible way.
Thank you
Ok I was quick to get excited...what did I do wrong here by following your example. I should've been a lot clearer in my pursuits...
the ellipse shapes animate in increments, they go from one to another.
So the very first shape moves moves off screen INTO the screen, followed by second, third, fourth, til the last...
when I follow your example Rick, from the very first keyframe I get all 9 shapes... instead of them animating..
What did I do wrong in keyframing the positions? I can't figure it out even by reorganizing...
Nevermind - I realize the effect I'm going for is best done with multiple shape layers such as before.
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import java.awt.geom.*;
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public JComboBox colourJComboBox, sizeJComboBox, shapeJComboBox, speedJComboBox;
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private String[] shapeA = { "Normal Rectangle", "Normal Circle", "Normal Oval","BIG Rectangle", "BIG Circle","BIG Oval","small rectangle","small circle", "small oval"};
private String[] speed = { "Fast", "Normal", "Slow"};
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" number of different situations.\n"+"\n Please " +
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else if(x == 1)
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colourChoice="Blue";
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flag = 3;
colourChoice="Green";
else if(x == 3)
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flag = 5;
colourChoice="Orange";
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flag = 6;
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helpJPanel.add( shapeJComboBox );
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startTestJButton.setText( "START" );
startTestJButton.setBackground( Color.YELLOW );
helpJPanel.add( startTestJButton );
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testJPanel.setVisible(false);
contentPane.add( testJPanel );
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timeJLabel.setBounds( 440, 330, 100, 35 );
timeJLabel.setText("Time:");
testJPanel.add( timeJLabel );
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timerJTextField.setBounds( 480, 335, 60, 24 );
timerJTextField.setText(String.valueOf(timeLimit));
timerJTextField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.CENTER );
timerJTextField.setEditable(false);
timerJTextField.setBackground( Color.YELLOW );
testJPanel.add( timerJTextField );
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resultsJPanel.setVisible(false);
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* this will compete with your animation
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Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
AffineTransform at = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(x, y);
if (RT.flag==1)
{g2.setPaint(Color.red);// changed colour here***************************
else if (RT.flag==2)
{g2.setPaint(Color.blue);// changed colour here***************************
else if (RT.flag==3)
{g2.setPaint(Color.green);// changed colour here***************************
else if (RT.flag==4)
{g2.setPaint(Color.yellow);// changed colour here***************************
else if (RT.flag==5)
{g2.setPaint(Color.orange);// changed colour here***************************
else if (RT.flag==6)
{g2.setPaint(Color.black);// changed colour here***************************
xfoI'm (being lazy and) using the older RT app posted on your last thread. I removed the
TimeNow timer from the RT class and used System.currentTimeMillis (as you requested) to
determine the elapsed time during the animation (see "startTest", "stop" and
"movingObject" methods). Also changed the DecimalFormat to NumberFormat and set the
"maximumFractionDigits" to "2" so it will truncate the fraction to two digits (more simple
than before). Made arrangements for the ShapeMovingPanel class to update the
"timerJTextField" during the animation (RT.updateTime method).
The MouseMotionListener is causing the animation to appear jerky and uneven. The
"mouseMoved" method is very busy while the mouse is moving. You might consider recording
the "mousePressed" events instead of the "mouseMoved" events, ie, the events where the user
is attempting to click inside the moving shape. It would allow the app to be more
responsive and might eliminate the uneven motion of the animating shape.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class RT extends JFrame implements MouseMotionListener
//declares a number of swing componets to be used for the JFrame
private JTextArea infoJTextArea;
private JPanel showJPanel, startJPanel, helpJPanel, resultsJPanel;
private JLabel de4JLabel, de3JLabel, mainTitleJLabel, nameJLabel, ageJLabel,
deJLabel, de1JLabel, de2JLabel, timeJLabel,nameResultJLabel,
ageResultJLabel, timeResultsJLabel, ratingJLabel;
private JTextField nameJTextField, ageJTextField,nameResultJTextField,
ageResultsJTextField, timeResultsJTextField, ratingJTextField;
private JButton exitJButton, showJButton, loginJButton, startTestJButton,
tempObjectJButton;
private JScrollPane scroll;;
// creates and sets up a number of varibles to be used by the class
private long startTime;
private long endTime;
public int timeLimit = 0;
public int age;
public String name;
private JTextField timerJTextField;
ShapeMovingPanel testJPanel;
NumberFormat timeDec;
Random seed;
Shape shape;
Shape[] shapes = {
new Rectangle2D.Double(50, 30, 75, 25),
new Ellipse2D.Double(175, 125, 50, 50),
new Ellipse2D.Double(90, 100, 75, 35)
public RT()
timeDec = NumberFormat.getInstance();
timeDec.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
seed = new Random();
shape = shapes[0];
createUserInterface();
private void createUserInterface()
Container contentPane = getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout( null );
// set up infoJTextField
infoJTextArea = new JTextArea();
infoJTextArea.setBounds( 20, 420, 550, 170 );
infoJTextArea.setEditable( false);
infoJTextArea.setText("\n Welcome to the reaction testing program, this " +
"program is designed to test your reactions in a \n"+
" number of different situations.\n"+"\n Please " +
"enter your name and age, or select show previous results.");
contentPane.add( infoJTextArea );
scroll = new JScrollPane(infoJTextArea);
scroll.setBounds( 20, 420, 550, 170 );
contentPane.add( scroll );
startJPanel = new JPanel();
startJPanel.setBounds( 16,16, 560, 375 );
startJPanel.setBorder(
new TitledBorder( "WELCOME -PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME AND AGE:" ) );
startJPanel.setLayout( null );
contentPane.add( startJPanel );
//sets up a JPanel
mainTitleJLabel = new JLabel();
mainTitleJLabel.setIcon( new ImageIcon( "title.png" ) );
mainTitleJLabel.setBounds( 30, 10, 520, 170 );
mainTitleJLabel.setHorizontalAlignment( JLabel.CENTER );
startJPanel.add( mainTitleJLabel );
//creates a newJLabel
nameJLabel= new JLabel();
nameJLabel.setBounds( 52, 200, 70, 35 );
nameJLabel.setText("Name:");
startJPanel.add( nameJLabel);
//creates a new JTextField
nameJTextField = new JTextField();
nameJTextField.setBounds( 130, 200, 300, 24 );
startJPanel.add( nameJTextField );
//creates a newJLabel
ageJLabel = new JLabel();
ageJLabel.setBounds( 52, 245, 100, 35 );
ageJLabel.setText("Age:");
startJPanel.add( ageJLabel );
//creates a new JTextField
ageJTextField = new JTextField();
ageJTextField.setBounds( 130, 245, 300, 24 );
startJPanel.add( ageJTextField );
//creates a JButton
loginJButton = new JButton();
loginJButton.setBounds( 440, 200, 90, 24 );
loginJButton.setText( "Login" );
loginJButton.setBackground( Color.YELLOW );
startJPanel.add( loginJButton );
loginJButton.setEnabled(true);
loginJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() // adds an action listener,anonymous inner class
// event handler called when search is pressed
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
// not necessary to pass events to these methods...
Login(); // calls the Login method
//creates a JButton
showJButton = new JButton();
showJButton.setBounds( 200, 320, 180, 24 );
showJButton.setText( "Show previous results" );
showJButton.setBackground( Color.YELLOW );
startJPanel.add( showJButton );
showJButton.setEnabled(true);
showJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() // adds an action listener,anonymous inner class
// event handler called when search is pressed
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
showData(); // calls the showData method
//sets up a JPanel
showJPanel = new JPanel();
showJPanel.setBounds( 16,16, 560, 375 );
showJPanel.setBorder(new TitledBorder( "PREVIOUS RESULTS:" ) );
showJPanel.setLayout( null );
contentPane.add( showJPanel );
//sets up a JPanel
helpJPanel = new JPanel();
helpJPanel.setBounds( 16,16, 560, 375 );
helpJPanel.setBorder(
new TitledBorder( "HELP DETAILS:" ) );
helpJPanel.setLayout( null );
helpJPanel.setVisible(false);
contentPane.add( helpJPanel );
//creates a newJLabel
deJLabel= new JLabel();
deJLabel.setBounds( 23, 390, 530, 35 );
deJLabel.setText("Details:");
contentPane.add( deJLabel);
//creates a newJLabel
de1JLabel= new JLabel();
de1JLabel.setBounds( 25, 100, 530, 35 );
de1JLabel.setText("You are about to start the reaction test, when you " +
"press the start button it will begin.");
helpJPanel.add( de1JLabel);
//creates a newJLabel
de1JLabel= new JLabel();
de1JLabel.setBounds(160, 145, 530, 35 );
de1JLabel.setText("Simply catch the moving item and click.");
helpJPanel.add( de1JLabel);
//creates a newJLabel
de2JLabel= new JLabel();
de2JLabel.setBounds( 20, 380, 70, 35 );
de2JLabel.setText("Details:");
helpJPanel.add( de2JLabel);
//creates a JButton
startTestJButton = new JButton();
startTestJButton.setBounds( 185, 205, 180, 60 );
startTestJButton.setText( "START" );
startTestJButton.setBackground( Color.YELLOW );
helpJPanel.add( startTestJButton );
startTestJButton.setEnabled(true);
startTestJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() // adds an action listener,anonymous inner class
// event handler called when search is pressed
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
startTest();
//sets up an animation panel
testJPanel = new ShapeMovingPanel(this);
testJPanel.setBounds( 16,16, 560, 375 );
testJPanel.setBorder(new TitledBorder("Click the moving object:"));
testJPanel.setLayout( null );
testJPanel.setVisible(false);
contentPane.add( testJPanel );
// this is causing the animation to appear uneven
// you can try the app with and without this to see
// testJPanel.addMouseMotionListener(this);
//creates a newJLabel
timeJLabel = new JLabel();
timeJLabel.setBounds( 440, 330, 100, 35 );
timeJLabel.setText("Time:");
testJPanel.add( timeJLabel );
//creates a new JTextField
timerJTextField = new JTextField();
timerJTextField.setBounds( 480, 335, 60, 24 );
timerJTextField.setText(String.valueOf(timeLimit));
timerJTextField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.CENTER );
timerJTextField.setEditable(false);
timerJTextField.setBackground( Color.YELLOW );
testJPanel.add( timerJTextField );
resultsJPanel = new JPanel();
resultsJPanel.setBounds( 16,16, 560, 375 );
resultsJPanel.setBorder(new TitledBorder("HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS:"));
resultsJPanel.setLayout( null );
resultsJPanel.setVisible(false);
contentPane.add( resultsJPanel );
de3JLabel= new JLabel();
de3JLabel.setBounds(20, 200, 530, 35 );
de3JLabel.setText("Below is also the movements you made with your mouse, " +
"you may exit the program now.");
resultsJPanel.add( de3JLabel);
de4JLabel= new JLabel();
de4JLabel.setBounds(135, 245, 530, 35 );
de4JLabel.setText("Thank you for trying the Reaction Testing program");
resultsJPanel.add( de4JLabel);
//creates a newJLabel
nameResultJLabel= new JLabel();
nameResultJLabel.setBounds( 62, 55, 50, 35 );
nameResultJLabel.setText("Name:");
resultsJPanel.add( nameResultJLabel);
//creates a new JTextField
nameResultJTextField = new JTextField();
nameResultJTextField.setBounds( 140, 55, 300, 24 );
resultsJPanel.add( nameResultJTextField );
nameResultJTextField.setEditable(false);
//creates a newJLabel
ageResultJLabel = new JLabel();
ageResultJLabel.setBounds( 62, 90, 100, 35 );
ageResultJLabel.setText("Age:");
resultsJPanel.add( ageResultJLabel );
//creates a new JTextField
ageResultsJTextField = new JTextField();
ageResultsJTextField.setBounds( 140, 90, 300, 24 );
resultsJPanel.add( ageResultsJTextField );
ageResultsJTextField.setEditable(false);
//creates a newJLabel
timeResultsJLabel = new JLabel();
timeResultsJLabel.setBounds( 62, 125, 100, 35 );
timeResultsJLabel.setText("Time taken:");
resultsJPanel.add( timeResultsJLabel );
//creates a new JTextField
timeResultsJTextField = new JTextField();
timeResultsJTextField.setBounds( 140, 125, 300, 24 );
resultsJPanel.add( timeResultsJTextField );
timeResultsJTextField.setEditable(false);
//creates a newJLabel
ratingJLabel = new JLabel();
ratingJLabel.setBounds( 62, 160, 100, 35 );
ratingJLabel.setText("Your Rating:");
resultsJPanel.add( ratingJLabel );
ratingJTextField = new JTextField();
ratingJTextField.setBounds( 140, 160, 300, 24 );
resultsJPanel.add( ratingJTextField );
ratingJTextField.setEditable(false);
//creates a JButton
exitJButton = new JButton();
exitJButton.setBounds( 235, 310, 90, 24 );
exitJButton.setText( "Exit" );
exitJButton.setBackground( Color.WHITE );
resultsJPanel.add( exitJButton );
exitJButton.setEnabled(true);
exitJButton.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() // adds an action listener,anonymous inner class
// event handler called when exitJButton is pressed
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
System.exit(0); //closes the programme
}); // end anonymous inner class
addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
System.exit(0);
// set properties of application's window
setTitle( "Reaction Tester - CMT3991" ); // set JFrame's title bar string
//setSize( 1280,995 ); // set width and height of JFrame
setSize( 608, 650 ); // set width and height of JFrame
setVisible( true ); // display JFrame on screen
//** set up of method main */
public static void main( String[] args )
RT application = new RT();
application.setDefaultCloseOperation( EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
} // end method main
private void Login()
try
name = nameJTextField.getText();
age = Integer.parseInt(ageJTextField.getText());
startJPanel.setVisible(false);
showJPanel.setVisible(false);
helpJPanel.setVisible(true);
infoJTextArea.setText("\n Welcome "+name+" you will soon know how " +
"fast your reactions are");
catch (NumberFormatException exception)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,
"There is either a blank field or a number hasn't been entered",
"Input Type error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
//shows this is something has been entered wrong
private void startTest()
helpJPanel.setVisible(false);
shape = shapes[seed.nextInt(shapes.length)];
testJPanel.setShape(shape);
testJPanel.setVisible(true);
testJPanel.start();
startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
infoJTextArea.setText("");
* called by animation panel after shape is clicked
public void stop()
endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
movingObject();
* called by timer actionPerformed in ShapeMovingPanel
public void updateTime()
long timeNow = System.currentTimeMillis();
double elapsed = (timeNow - startTime)/1000.0;
timerJTextField.setText(timeDec.format(elapsed));
* this will compete with your animation
* ie, it will slow it down or make it appear jerky
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
saySomething("\n Mouse moved", e);
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
saySomething("\n Mouse dragged", e);
void saySomething(String eventDescription, MouseEvent e)
infoJTextArea.append(eventDescription
+ " (" + e.getX() + "," + e.getY() + ")");
infoJTextArea.setCaretPosition(infoJTextArea.getDocument().getLength());
private void movingObject()
testJPanel.setVisible(false);
resultsJPanel.setVisible(true);
nameResultJTextField.setText(name);
ageResultsJTextField.setText(String.valueOf(age)+" years old");
double elapsedTime = (endTime - startTime)/1000.0;
timeLimit = (int)elapsedTime;
timeResultsJTextField.setText(timeDec.format(elapsedTime)+" seconds");
String mouse = infoJTextArea.getText();
String tick = timeDec.format(elapsedTime);
try
// create a file called welch.txt
final FileWriter outputFile = new FileWriter(name+".txt", true);
final BufferedWriter outputBuffer = new BufferedWriter(outputFile);
// converts data to a formatted string
final PrintWriter printstream = new PrintWriter(outputBuffer);
printstream.println("The person's name is: "+name);
printstream.println("There age is: "+age);
printstream.println("Time taken: "+tick+" seconds");
printstream.println("The mouse moved as follows: "+mouse);
//states what needs to be printed to the new file
printstream.close(); // closes teh printstream
catch(IOException eio)
//catchs the IO exception
if(timeLimit<5)
ratingJTextField.setText("Thierry Henry");
if(timeLimit>5)
ratingJTextField.setText("Average");
if(timeLimit>10)
ratingJTextField.setText("You gotta be fat or something");
if(timeLimit>20)
ratingJTextField.setText("See a doctor");
String rate=ratingJTextField.getText();
private void showData()
// String results = "";
// infoJTextArea.setText("Here are your results:\n"+results);
startJPanel.setVisible(false);
showJPanel.setVisible(true);
class ShapeMovingPanel extends JPanel implements ActionListener
RT host;
Timer timer;
Shape shape, xformed;
int x, y, dx, dy;
public ShapeMovingPanel(RT rt)
host = rt;
timer = new Timer(25, this);
x = 0;
y = 0;
dx = 2;
dy = 3;
setBackground(Color.pink);
addMouseListener(new ShapeTender());
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
int w = getWidth();
int h = getHeight();
if(w <= 0 || h <= 0)
return;
checkBoundries(w,h);
x += dx;
y += dy;
repaint();
// update RT.timerJTextField
host.updateTime();
private void checkBoundries(int w, int h)
Rectangle r = xformed.getBounds();
Insets insets = getInsets();
if(r.x + dx < insets.left || r.x + r.width + dx > w - insets.right)
dx *= -1;
if(r.y + dy < insets.top || r.y + r.height + dy > h - insets.bottom)
dy *= -1;
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
AffineTransform at = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(x, y);
g2.setPaint(Color.red);
xformed = at.createTransformedShape(shape);
g2.draw(xformed);
public void start()
if(!timer.isRunning())
timer.start();
public void setShape(Shape s)
shape = s;
Rectangle r = shape.getBounds();
x = r.x;
y = r.y;
repaint();
private class ShapeTender extends MouseAdapter
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
if(xformed.contains(e.getPoint()))
timer.stop();
host.stop();
} -
Simple shape morphing in Keynote...?
Hello,
I am seeking help with what should be a simple task (I reckon), but which is turning out not to be...
I use Keynote 9 for my teaching presentations. I need to show semi-transparent coloured regions – superimposed onto maps – that change through time, and I would like to make that change into a fluid animation: simple semi-transparent blobs that change shape. That's all! Simple, huh.
Here are the problems...
- The shapes are irregular (so Magic Move won't do it)
- Keynote 9, so no Flash
- I can get Adobe Illustrator to generate Flash animations and then I should be able to convert them with VideoMonkey into .mp4s... except that VideoMonkey utterly refuses to convert the .swf files generated by Illustrator... No idea what's going on there... Tried everything I can think of, no go.
- Downloaded a trial version of Mac SWF Video Converter, but this seems to make mp4s with black backgrounds... I couldn't see any way to maintain the transparency (and of course Instant Alpha doesn't work on video files)
- I can generate single animation frames in Adobe Illustrator then use Preview to combine them into animated GIFs, but Keynote will not import the result with a transparent background (yes, I can *make* them with a transparent background, but Keynote renders it solid white on import...)
- I can convert the animated GIF to a QT movie (using GIF2MOV), but then I lose the semi-transparency on the shapes themselves.
- I could place each of my Illustrator-generated animation frames onto a separate Keynote slide and have them auto Transition with no Effect – so use Keynote itself as the animation software – but for a halfway decent smoothness in the animation, we're talking a lot of frames and this approach seems pretty inefficient to me... Not to mention a pain to do (as the image on each slide has to be independently aligned... take me for ever!)
For a relatively simple visual effect, this appears to be implausibly difficult to do... Unless someone out there can see another way of doing it...
Many thanks for any suggestions.Interesting idea... I managed to achieve the effect I was after (I'll explain how below) only to realize that what I was actually aiming for was even harder than I had realized...
What I am trying to animate is changing ethnic "territories" over time in South East Asia. These are complicated little shapes that merge into one another and shift about all over the place. As I am dealing with historical territorial (or perhaps more accurately, "distributional") data, I project it onto a purely physical map of Asia that has no modern political boundaries (as they are irrelevant). But this also means (if you are not so good at geography) that your normal visual reference points have gone, and for my students (French university-level language students, not geography majors) I'm sure that the result can be a little difficult to assimilate.
For the past few years, I have been happily fading different, often visually disjunct arrangements into one another, but I have always been only moderately satisfied with the result: the changes can be hard to track visually, which defeats the whole purpose of displaying them this way... I wanted the shapes to flow without interruption (like blobs of wax in a Lava lamp! - Theres an image for you!) – to be visually coherent.
I began therefore thinking about morphing, and Flash animations...
...and ran into all the problems that the tiff between Apple and Adobe has currently left us with. (Don't you like the play on words there... tiff... )
I gave up on trying to animate just the transparent blobs, with a view to overlaying the animation on a static blank map in Keynote, and instead tried animating the whole lot, background map and all, using Adobe Illustrator. The process involves Illustrator's blend tool, and exporting to .swf, then recapturing the .swf files with Snapz Pro X in .mov format, which allowed Keynote to import them.
BUT! The result was still not what I wanted (picky, eh). Illustrator's blend tool does a superb job of translating any form into any other, no matter how complex, but groups of humans moving over land don't move like that! For instance, a circluar region moving to a coastal region, when "morphed" will progressively adopt the shape of the coastline before reaching it, which is just silly. It looks as if the population being represented distribute themselves to neatly match the coast when still about 500kms away (and over the space of several generations). Call me stickler, but it doesn't look right. It isn't right, and it's not what I need...
Sure, any such representation is a vast oversimplification in any case, but superimposing such a specifically impossible visual trait onto the presentation runs counter to the whole idea of doing it for me. It should be iconically plausible (even if not accurate).
So... I'm in a pause... Looking to understand animating shapes better...
I like your screen shot idea tho'. I will have to try it out...
Cheers,
Colin -
how can show animation (shape and motion tween) witch i was created in Scens1-MovieClip in time line?
there was an option (looping) in CS5 but how can i do it in CC and CS6?shape tweening can only be applied to raw drawn shapes, no movieclips. IF you wanted to do a shape tween to a movieclip it would have to be done within the timeline in the movieclip.
-
Width animation in After Effects
I already revealed my logo with a mask. The mask is with a line.
So as the line (it's just a thin rectangle) goes to the right, it reveals the text.
Next I want the line to grow thicker into a box.
Except after I add the keyframe, I change the width of the line and the Rectangle goes all the way to the left off the screen. Or I try to change the width and it doesn't change it for that key frame but throught out the animation like with the mask.
I don't get how this works, How can I animate it so that it won't move so wildly? All I want is to animate the thin rectangle to grow wider to the right side. Help? Adobe after effects Creative Cloud I'm using.Mylenium wrote:
How can I animate it so that it won't move so wildly?
Well, by using the right tools and methodology. It's as simple as that. You are too bound trying to do everything on a single layer with a single mask, which rarely ever works. Also masks have this odd thing with mask interpolation, which might well explain your difficulties. To reveal your layer, one would simply use a linear wipe or another layer as a matte, which by all means could be an animated shape layer. therein also lies the answer to yopur otehr problem: Simply animate the properties of a parametric shape layer rectangle. Much more controllable.
Mylenium
Well, yeah, that's the problem. I"m okay with the linear wipe mask revealing the text, I feel I've done that fine, it's just the animation of the rectangle now. -
Animated GIF - Sync, Control, or Reset?
I have a CP7 project with animated GIFs in it. The GIFs are invisible by default and become visible through an advanced action (Show) attached to a Button object on the same slide. But when I preview the slide and click the Button, the GIFs start animating in the middle of the sequence instead of at the beginning. Is there a way to tell Captivate to start those GIFs over when the button is clicked, or to not start the animation until the objects become visible? I could swear I've done this before but I can't seem to recall how I made it work properly.
I've been wrestling with this for a while, and I thought I would share this if it helps anyone besides me:
If an animated GIF is set to be NOT "Visible in output," then the animation will wait until a "Show" command causes the GIF to be displayed.
HOWEVER, at that "Show" command, ALL instances of the Library item representing that GIF will start (even if you have other instances still hidden).
I worked around this by duplicating my animated GIF in the filesystem, then loading it into the library as different instances. Once I did this, each Library item had its own GIF timing, which allowed me to make sure each GIF started the animation when I showed it and not before. That achieved the desired functionality. -
Animated Trim Paths cannot render out - bug or else???
Hello everyone!
I have encounted a huge problem with the exporting (rendering out) all contents of the Composition in After Effects CC.
My workflow outline:
1) Created a Composition of 1920x1080 size.
2) Created a Solid Layer of 3840x2160 size.
4) Animated Scale and Position of the Solid Layer over duration of the Composition.
3) Created a Shape layer containing the Shape 1 using the Pen Tool. The Shape 1 is just an unclosed path from point A to point B
with the Stroke of 20 px width and no Fill applied.
4) Made my Solid Layer as the Parent of the Shape Layer.
5) Added a Trim Paths to my Shape 1 in the Shape Layer (containing Stroke 1) and animated End over the Composition duration.
I have also animated the Stroke Width from 20 to 30 px.
The Composition is playing back perfectly in Composition window inside After Effects CC:
Animated Line is going from point A to B while the Solid Layer changing position and scale all right!
6) Rendered the Composition out (using Render Que as well as Media Encorder CC) into a movie file.
When I play the resulting file I cannot see my animated Shape 1 Stroke (Trim Paths) in the Exported (Rendered out) Movie file:
no Animated Line is present while the Solid Layer changing position and scale...
However I can see the Solid Layer animation (Scale and Position) in the Movie file.
Why the animation can be seen in the Composition playback inside the AE CC but I cannot export it?
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you very much in advance for your advice!to
Just the recent update to my post:
1) I have just opened this project in Mac OSX environment (Lion 10.7.5) and found the same issue:
the animated path is missing in the rendered .MOV uncompressed while clearly visible and playable in
the Composition window of After Effects....
2) I have just also created an absolutely new project and a composition from scratch following my own workflow from
my the very first post and it the newly created project is working all right with the animated path showing in the rendered file as it is showing in
the Composition window...
But the problem still remains with the first weird project:
what is so wrong with the project and composition to screw up the After Effects proper functioning?
I would also highly appreciate if someone from Adobe team can have a look at my mistical project... -
High CPU usage: Animation with background
I experience a high CPU usage when animating a shape over a background. If I disable the background or the animation, the CPU usage drops to almost zero. It seems like the combination of background shapes and an animated shape is very costly.
Is there a way to improve this performance? Can I indicate that the animated shape is always on top? Adding the smooth and cache tags did not improve the performance.
Thanks in advance.
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.animation.Interpolator;
import javafx.animation.*;
import javafx.animation.transition.*;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
var nBackgrounds = 20;
var screenWidth = 1024;
var screenHeight = 800;
def animatingRectangle = Rectangle{
width: screenWidth
height: screenHeight
fill:Color.BLUE
def background = for(i in [1..nBackgrounds]) Rectangle{
width: screenWidth
height: screenHeight
fill:Color.RED
def liveView:Scene = Scene {
width: screenWidth
height: screenHeight
content: [
background,
animatingRectangle,
] // content
} // Scene
Stage {
title: "Example"
scene: liveView
} // Stage
var fakeImageTransition:TranslateTransition = TranslateTransition {
fromY: bind animatingRectangle.translateY
toY: bind -screenHeight
duration: 10s
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Any ways, I am building my progress bar window like this:
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I searched forum and found Update() option. But this only works for Window objects. However, if I change my "Palette" to "Window" that problem still appeas.
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But that's irrelevant to AE, is it? Becouse it throws me an error when I try to add app.scriptPreferences.enableRedraw = true.He didn't use Mocha, these clips aren't too recent...
Well, I know that the animated parts were done literally by hand, stop-motions, then saved as little transparent movies or animated gifs then loaded onto the filmed video..
So you think there isn't tracking really?? How could I make something pop up a book like this, when you look at it in slow motion, the animated shapes actually change perpectives and sort of disappear into the book... Does simple motion tracking tweek the "tracking object" as its tracking area interpolates??
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If all of this is greek to you. See this tutorial http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/animating-shape-paths-masks.html
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As I stated in the topic title, the search items for (still image interlacing) did not help with my problem. I'm trying to animate a bunch of stills for a slide show. The one thing I read over and over was that the pictures should be bigger than the viewer size in FCE.
I'm set for NTSC DV so 720 x 480, and the pictures are in the thousand pixel range (something like 2000 x 3000, high quality photos). I still get the interlacing. I read Tom Wolsky's FCP book entry however it did not help with the interlacing issue. If I do a batch edit in photoshop and change all the pictures to 720 x 480, would this solve the issue? I'm sure many of you have had this problem before, as I have, please let me know what you did.
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if you are moving them around and resizing them.
That won't affect the interlacing, but at least you won't
see the pixels from the still.
While doing motion and resizing, however, it's usually best to work
in a progressive format. In fact, it would be best if you
could stay progressive to the end. What format will
your final master be?
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you will usually see interlacing artifacts on a computer. But that's
not necessarily bad. When played on a regular analog TV,
the interlacing will function correctly and you won't notice it.
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