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alyssa1
03-07-2009, 09:23 AM
am attempting to create a flash
site and although I do have a rudimentary understanding of flash I have a couple questions. What I am attempting to do is have a butterfly move across the screen. coming in from the right and making a couple of circles and stopping at a point to become a valid button. I have my background, butterfly, motion guide, and motion tween. The BF is moving and following the path but it is doing it in a stationary position. I would like the "head" of the butterfly to move along the path with the body turning along the path.
The animation is jumpy as well. How do i smooth it out so the BF move gracefully along the path
I would like the wings to flutter or fly as well and have found a tut on how to make that happen but am not sure how to save the file in flash so that I can import it into the new document and move along the path while still flapping.
And finally, how do i tell flash to stop moving it and make it a valid button for the site. Any tuts on how to make an animated flash element into a static web object would be very much appreciated.

The animation is jumpy as well. How do i smooth it out so the BF move gracefully along the path
I would like the wings to flutter or fly as well and have found a tut on how to make that happen but am not sure how to save the file in flash so that I can import it into the new document and move along the path while still flapping.
And finally, how do i tell flash to stop moving it and make it a valide button for the site. any tuts on how to make a animated flash element into a static web object would be very much appreciated.

kkbbcute
03-08-2009, 05:08 AM
An MC can behave as a button while being animated at the same time, there is no need to turn a flash element into a static object as you say. Just use an onPress function like so:

butterflyMC.onPress = function():Void {
//any code here
}

To make the wings flutter, just nest another animation of the wings fluttering inside of the butterfly MC. The distorting tools in Flash found under the Free Transform tool comes in really handy here.;)