Simple (?) Motion Tween Problem

I am unable to do more than one transition for a
fade-in/fade-out effect. I'm trying to do a simple transition of 5
different bitmap images, with each fading out, followed by another
fading in, etc... I've tried saving the bitmaps as symbols in the
library. Still no luck.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Saringei,
I'm sure there is a better way to do this (maybe with
actionscript), but you can acheieve this effect by putting each
fade in/fade out in a separate layer. for example, have image1 fade
in and out in layer 1 going from frame 1 to frame 10, then image2
goes in layer 2 from frame 11 to frame 20, etc. Like I said, there
is probably a better way that maybe someone else can suggest, but
I'm pretty sure this will work.
Bob

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So I have been making an animation to a voice over for a project. Comes in at about 2000+ frames with each animations different "scene" location split into 16 layers.
If I play the entire movie from start to finish my 2nd to last "scene's" motion tweens play really fast and repeat randomly.
If I use a gotoAndPlay to the frame where this "scene" starts the motion tween plays as intended.
The problem "scene" is setup like all my others with the "scene" being in its own movieclip on the main timeline, and then nesting other movieclips inside it. When I remove the tweens from the nested movieclips there is no movement issue, but obviously there is also no movement which I need.
My fix so far has been to add a goToAndPlay on the first frame of the problem "scene", eg "gotoAndPlay(1895); above frame 1895" which plays the tween correctly but makes my audio stutter when it hits that frame. So is not exactly the desired effect.
Note: when I say "scene" I don't mean flash scenes more taking about the different shots/locations of my animation.
I've searched google for hours to try find a similar issues with no success. So really do appreciate any help or ideas from some more experienced flashers

You're trying to have different slices fade in? If you just
want the image,
as a whole to fade in, import it and convert it to a
MovieClip and fade in
the clip.
Dave -
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Hello all
I have been developing a game using flash CS3. It involves a
variety of objects, movieclips, buttons and motion tweens and a
whole bunch of actionscript. The development has been coming along
very nicely and I havent been experiencing many problems, until
now. I was close to finishing the game (with everything running
smoothly) and suddenly, the motion tweens on certain objects have
become broken. instead of smoothly tweening the object flickers
from on position to the next.
This all happened after absolutely no changes had been made
to the game source (.fla) file. What is strange is that even my
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now experiencing the same flickering on motion tweens as in the
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So, I have come to the conclusion that this is the result of
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My suggestion is to make sure you are using the current
version of Flash Player. If that doesn't work, try finding a legacy
version fo the Flash Player (since it used to work). If the legacy
version solves the issue, contact Adobe and submit a bug.
Personally I've never had such an issue. It is possible to delete
your preferences. If I remember right, they are located in both
your registry and on your hard drive. I don't recall where to find
the things you need to delete, and I remember I had a hard time
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Hi. I tried to create an animated stickman using Motion Tween
between these two frames:
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the center point is different between keyframes. this will
cause drifting. make sure the center
point (Free Transform tool) is *exactly* the same for all
keyframes.
Chris Georgenes
Animator
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Adobe Community Expert
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> Hi. I tried to create an animated stickman using Motion
Tween between these two
> frames:
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>
http://img457.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot00000nw4.jpg
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Apply a Tween to the next image as soon as it is loaded...
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Hi,
Select the last frame in your animation, open your actions
panel (F9) and type stop();
this should do it.
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Based on what I saw in the example you only have to worry about managing one tween and then create 6 or more of those managed tweens. The general scheme could be you have a tween with a finish listener that sets a timer with a somewhat random delay (between x and y seconds) that upon timing out sets a tween with a listener and so on and so on.

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Hi !
I tried to refresh my little flash knowledge -- but I stumbled upon a problem with the new Flash CS4!
When I try to make different blur or alpha effect on one keyframe I got after making the motion tween -- Flash adjust the other keyframe as well (got the same reaction on both keyframes as if it was the same instance of movie clip -- and not as in old flash; the keyframes created separated or independent instances)
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Hello Maria,
You sort of answered your own question:)
"got the same reaction on both keyframes as if it was the same instance of movie clip"
That is exactly right and is the proper way of looking at new motion tweens. It is one instance of the movieclip for the duration of the tween. It takes awhile to get used to this.
New motion tweens allow you to set up a a very simple tween initially without keyframing ending values / position. Once you start making changes after the tween is set, you are going to have to get familiar with adding "property keyframes". Property keyframes are displayed with those little diamond icons in the timeline. Poperty keyframes allow you to "lock in" certain specific properties at key points in your animation without affecting other properties. With the old classic keyframes, a keyframe placed mid-tween would create a whole new instance of a symbol with all properties (rotation, scale, alpha etc) set in stone for that point in time. The benefit was that you could easily have all properties tween TO and FROM that keyframe if that's what you wanted. Now you can make adjustments to a symbol mid-tween and only specifically adjust a single property. So you can adjust the alpha of an object mid-tween without interrupting say a rotation that you wanted to happen all the way through.
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CLASSIC TWEEN
-place symbol on frame 1
-keyframe frame 10
-in frame 10 move the symbol to the right
-add classice tween
Ok, that works, now add alpha fade in
-go back to frame 1 and set alpha to 0
-classice tween automatically adjusts alpha from 0 in frame 1 to 100 in frame 10.
-done
MOTION TWEEN
-place symbol on stage
-create motion tween
-playhead jumps to last frame
-move symbol to the right (no need to f6 / keyframe)
Flash automatically adds something called a "position" keyframe (notice the little black diamond)
Ok, that works, now add alpha fade in
-go to frame 1 and set alpha to 0
-test movie
-oops - wrong. As you noted the alpha will stay at 0 throughout the whole tween.
-you need to additionally go to the last frame and set the alpha back to 100
-this will automtically create a "color" property keyframe on the last frame
When just doing this now I noticed something odd as well
As soon as I do the position change and move the symbol to the right, if I try to add the "color keyframe" on the last frame of the tween, I am not allowed to do so. "color" and "filter" are greyed out. I would prefer to lock the alpha at 100 in the last frame while the playhead is in position before setting it down to 0 in frame 1. Oh well.
Seems you are forced to
-go back to the beginning of the tween
-adjust the alpha
-then go to the end and manually bring the alpha back up.
hmm maybe i'm missing something too:)
the best way to do this would be to have the foresight ahead of time to do the alpha
-place the symbol
-alpha 0
-add motion tween
-in last frame move the symbol set alpha to 100 (alpha and position keyframes are automatically set)
So if you do it right the first time, its easy. If not, well.
Keep in mind an object will maintain the properties it has set in frame 1 unless a subsequent property keyframe enforces some adjustment.
If you have have an object that is moving from point a to b to c to d:
If you alter the alpha at point b, the alpha will tween from point a to b, but will maintain the new alpha to c, to d.
If you scale the clip by 200% at point, its scale will tween from point a all the way to point d, NOT just from c to d
To scale from point c to d only, set a "scale" property keyframe at point c (this will lock the objects scale at 100) THEN scale to 200% at point d
It takes a good deal of practice. I found the hard way that you just can't "wing" it. It isn't very intuitive coming from a classic tween approach.
These articles really helped me:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/motion_migration_guide.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/learning_guide/animation/
Take note of the tips on "cntr-clicking" frames and "shift-dragging". You have to really get used to a few keyboard modifiers when editing the timeline.
Stick around the forums. A lot of good info comes through daily.
Carl

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I'm having a problem which has made me struggling for two days. I hope i can get some new ideas for my problem here.
I created a fla which includes several 3d motion tween in CS5.5, when it's compiled it works perfect. But when i try to load this swf into my main project, images get blurry and distorted. Below is the screenshot of the situation. The first one is the correct one, and second one is loaded into main project. I read that scaling 3d tweens might cause such problems and tried to fix it by two solutions. As first, i tried to retransform the tween by: myContainer.transform.matrix = new Matrix(); but didn't work out. As second, i tried to rescale the stage which mentioned as a solution is some blogs.
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Simple tutor for motion tween in AS3

i am searching one simple tutor for motion tween in AS3. Does any body know website ?

Assuming you are creating your tweens using actionscript I would highly recommend using the external animation engine TweenLite, developed by greensock. You can download it and read a tutorial on it here: http://blog.greensock.com/get-started-tweening/
If you are just creating tweens using the timeline then try this one: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-professional-cs4/getting-started-13-creating-motion- tweens/ I've not watched this one in a while but I seem to remember that the tutorials in this series were quite helpful to me.
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Experts out there, please help.
I have migrated from Flash CS3 to Flash CS5. Unlike in CS3, in CS5 when i use motion tween i am unable to use multiple 'ease in' and 'ease outs' in a single tween span. The tween span has to be divided by the 'split motion' command at 'properties keyframes' into smaller tween spans to further apply ease in/out to each one of them. This is not the case with CS3, you just select one keyframe after another and apply the ease in/out command, no divisions required.
Lets say i want control the accelaration and deccelaration of a bouncing ball without breaking the tween span. How do I do it in CS5 without wasting all the sweat?
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The classic tween is the same as the old Motion tween was in CS3 and earlier. You can grab a keyframe and drag it along he timeline to extend or reduce the tween.
The "new" Motion tween was invented to allow for 3D tweening and to allow you to save the tween action exclusive of the elements that were being tweened, so that you can easily replicate a tween on the timeline.

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The animation side of things is definetly not the focus of what knowledge I have but here goes...
A shape tween sounds like what you want. Create the base shape, and secondary shapes for a gap in each direction you need. After that you setup the timeline into sections for each of the directions and label them, and finally use goToAndPlay to choose which direction to unveil.
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Message was edited by: LastNameLeft3000

If you are interested in getting decent results at some point youwill have to looke into the Bone-Tool or use a extension like DragonBones
The reason why you are having "Displacement"-problems lies in the "Math" behind how AnimatorFactory (the system behind Motion Tweens) handles transformations different from Tweens (Its outright misleading to call them Tweens, and Adobe did a poor naming job).
Right click one of the Motion tweens and chosy "copy as Actionscript 3.0" from the context menu then paste the code in any available textEditor and you will see sth like:
import fl.motion.AnimatorFactory;
import fl.motion.MotionBase;
import fl.motion.Motion;
import flash.filters.*;
import flash.geom.Point;
var __motion_Symbol1_9:MotionBase;
if(__motion_Symbol1_9 == null) {
    __motion_Symbol1_9 = new Motion();
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    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("y", [0]);
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    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("scaleY", [1.000000]);
    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("skewX", [0]);
    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("skewY", [0]);
    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("rotationConcat", [0,3.91304,7.82609,11.7391,15.6522,19.5652,23.4783,27.3913,31.3043,35.2174,39.1304,43.043 5,46.9565,50.8696,54.7826,58.6957,62.6087,66.5217,70.4348,74.3478,78.2609,82.1739,86.087,9 0]);
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    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("cacheAsBitmap", [false]);
    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("opaqueBackground", [null]);
    __motion_Symbol1_9.addPropertyArray("visible", [true]);
    // Create an AnimatorFactory instance, which will manage
    // targets for its corresponding Motion.
    var __animFactory_Symbol1_9:AnimatorFactory = new AnimatorFactory(__motion_Symbol1_9);
    __animFactory_Symbol1_9.transformationPoint = new Point(0.499943, 0.500000);
    // Call the addTarget function on the AnimatorFactory
    // instance to target a DisplayObject with this Motion.
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    // will play - the default value of 0 means it will loop.
    // __animFactory_Symbol1_9.addTarget(<instance name goes here>, 0);
    // Call the addTarget function on the AnimatorFactory
    // instance to target a DisplayObject with this Motion.
    // The second parameter is the number of times the animation
    // will play - the default value of 0 means it will loop.
    // __animFactory_Symbol1_9.addTarget(<instance name goes here>, 0);
This is only the code for simply rotating a rectangle over the duration of 24 frames.
You notice 2 two problems right away: while having the registration point in the center, Flash distorts the values:
    __animFactory_Symbol1_9.transformationPoint = new Point(0.499943, 0.500000); //should be (0.5, 0.5)
you can imagine that this "error" gets worse when inherited from nested symbol to nested symbol, it "exponentially" grows with each nesting, and it will soon reach a point were it gets visible.

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Hello,
I'm new here and to Flash CS5. I'm having a lot of trouble stopping motion tweens. (No troubles with a Classic Tweens). When I have a layer with the animation, and then use the code snippets to insert a stop(); ...it won't stop. If I create a layer below the motion tween, put a keyframe in and place a stop there, it stops just fine. However, I've been told this isn't correct, that all actions should happen on the Actions layer. I'm sure I'm over looking something fairly simple, any help would be appreciated. I've added a couple of screen shots to try and clairfy the situation, if you need anything else let me know
This dosen't work
This does work
Thanks
Billy

as far as flash is concerned, you can put that stop() in any layer. layers don't even exist in your swf. they exist in the ide strictly for user convenience.
that said, it is a good practice to centralize code as much as you can. so, if you're coding on a timeline, putting the code in its own layer is better than spreading it across several layers. but, your code will work without problem when spread across several layers or when placed in your background layer.
anyway, if code in your Actions layer fails and code in your background layer works, the code is not the same in each layer.

How can i let a move clip complete his motion tween movement after dragging and dropping it

hi how can i let a move clip complete his motion tween movement after dragging and dropping it
i am using this code and there is a motion tween applies to the movie clip r_mc
r_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,fun); r_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,fun2); function fun(event:MouseEvent):void { stop(); r_mc.startDrag();
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play(); r_mc.stopDrag();

i have a simple .fla file wich contains MC that has
a motion tween(its moving from the left to the right of the stage)
this motion tween covers the whole time line ( there is only 50 frames in the time line)
i mean in the frame 1 the MC appears in the left of the stage
and in the frame 50 the MC appears in the right of the stage and there is a motion tween between them
every thing till now working well
i want to make that MC dragabble
so when i drag the MC i will use stop()
and when i drop it i will use play()
but the problem is that the mc doesnt move and complete
his motion tween movement when i drop it
for example the MC will be in the middle of the stage in frame 25
in this frame (25) i am draging the MC ,stoping the timeline,dropping the MC and resum playing the timeline again
but the MC freezes in the middle of the stage and doesnt go to the right of the stageo until the flash loops and start from the frame 1 again
here is the example wich i am worikng on
http://www.mediafire.com/?ia47r4owha7sz8v
thank u very much and sorry for my bad English

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