Tracing Motion Guide

[juuuugroid]

Hi,

I am trying to make a 2pt pixel follow a motion guide and laying down its track as it moves across the screen. Basically, frame 1 will start with the one dot, and when the movie is over on frame 40 the output on the screen should look exactly like the motion guide.

This may be really easy, but I cannot figure a way to do it.

Thanks!

[ASWC]

Create your guided motion tween and give the dot the instance name "test_mc" then put this in the action panel:
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
test_mc.duplicateMovieClip("test"+this._currentframe, 10+this._currentframe);
}

[juuuugroid]

I gave that a try and it works to some degree. The dot movies along the path, but it only drops a point every once in a while - I think every frame. I increased the frame rate, but had to kick it up to 400 before it made a solid line.

Any other suggestions to make a solid line?

[Barry_Bilmore]

You could always draw what you want it to look like in the end then create a keyframe, erase abit, create another keyframe keep doing it untill its all gone (the less you rub out each time the smoother it will look) the highlight all the frames and reverse them, it'll look like its drawing itself... if thats what your after?