Help with a morph

[kalasdojan]

I would like to make a smooth shape tween/morph between the 2 states in my attached image.

Can I do it with the shape tween or will I get better results using other software and then importing the result into Flash?


thanks!

[Noct]

You could certainly do it with a shape tween, but I'm not sure it would produce the results you're after.

Your second shape has no lines apart form the outline, so it is tough to say what flash would do with all the detail of the globe.

I have seen shape tweens where it kinda implodes or twists itself inward and then forms the second image, which does not end up looking like a morph and would probably not maintain its circular structure the entire time. On the other hand if you have both images as perfect circles, it may just drop the detail on the globe all together and flip to the solid color of the second image with no real tweening at all.

If you want to give it a shot, just select the image of the globe, right click > break apart, then select the frame it resides on in the timeline, right click > shape tween, then insert a keyframe and add your other shape.

If it does not stay as a circle you could always grab the outline from your second image and copy/paste it into your first in the same spot. As long as you remove any data that bleeds out of said circle, Flash should keep the circular shape throughout the tween, but again, since the second shape has no detail, it might just do a one frame swap of the inner detail to the solid color, which wouldn't look very good.

It if does actually produce a full-on tween, just know that it may be quite processor intensive and would most definately need to be preloaded to play smoothly.

Alternatively, you could always slpit the orginal image into seperate clips and animate them as you see fit to reveal the solid colored ball underneath. You will probably get better results that way.