Hello, There are many action scripts out there for snow falling, custom made by various individuals. however this one in particular that I came across seems to have done the snow fall effect very nicely. The individual posted a video on Youtube showing the steps to make in order to generate this effect on Flash CS6. I took the same steps from the tutorial on my Adobe Animate CC 2017 yet I can never pull off the effect, as in nothing happens to the snowflake layer I create. Even after exporting the video to preview the movieclip's effect, nothing happens. I am still new to action scripts so its definitely my fault for not knowing what to do. I am wondering if someone here can guide me in their own words from start to finish while still using this script. Link to the Youtube Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTeEPni05Y Here is a copy of the script used in the Youtube video: addEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME,snow); function snow (event:Event):void { var scale:Number=Math.random()*.6; var _sf:snowflake=new snowflake(); _sf.x=Math.random()*640; _sf.scaleX=scale; _sf.scaleY=scale; var speed:Number=Math.random()*2; var RA:Array=new Array(-1,1); var lf:int=RA[Math.round(Math.random())]; stage.addChild (_sf); _sf.addEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME,snowfall); function snowfall (event:Event):void { _sf.y+=speed; _sf.rotation+=Math.random()*20; _sf.x+=(Math.random()*2)*lf; } } ... View more

Hello everyone, Often times individuals come on the forums in search for a way to apply the Track Matte effect over multiple layers in their timeline, to which the response on the forums are usually "to just use the Set Matte effect, it should work just like the Track Matte command"... Often times, these individuals come back to the forums with complaints about how the Set Matte effect just is not working for them at all, to which the response on the forums are usually "to introduce some 'workaround' method that adds too many extra steps to ones workflow or just makes the entire situation more complicated than it ever should be" when trying to pull off simple effects in the program. I have conducted a test showing that Set Matte does not perform 100% like the Track Matte command, and those who claim it does are wasting other people's time. Set Matte does work like Track Matte, but only in certain circumstances as you will see from the Images I attach below. The 1st image is a screenshot of the After Effects Composition I have set up using: Shapes, Solids, Text, a .png, and a .mp4 file to compare how they act with one another when using both Set Matte and Track Matte. The other two images are of charts comparing how Set Matte and Track Matte differ when they are used with different types of layers. Take a look at the Set Matte chart, some layer combinations just do not work like how the Track Matte command works. In conclusion, when people say that the Set Matte effect works/doesn't work (without adding pre-comps to one workflow or other workarounds), it really depends on the types of layers they are using. In my case, I am making a composition in which I must use multiple Solids in my timeline to which I would like them all to be Track Matte'd to another Solid (that has a custom mask shape that alters over the course of the timeline) and I now know that it just will not work when applying the Set Matte effect to each of the multiple Solids. People might respond "oh just do this or pre-compose that", I have done enough trial and error to know what I will do and will not do as part of my workflow, my process is one I will undertake with many future projects and it kind of sucks to know that Set Matte does not really work like Track Matte with all types of layer combinations. Anyways, this discussion / test results are really for the rest of you out there who would like to pursue new solutions to the Set Matte dilemma. It is always awesome when tricky topics get discussed even deeper than one would expect and finally some decent solutions can come of it. Maybe this small test can prove useful to someone else, and if it does then that would be great. Cheers ... View more

So upon searching the forums regarding this subject, I came across a discussion made back in 2015. The poster asked if a keyboard shortcut could be given to the "swap color" tool on Adobe Flash (Animate). The poster did not get any effective solution other than being told to file a feature request to Adobe... Even today the keyboard shortcut option for swap color is still not present in Adobe Animate CC. Here is a link to the 2015 discussion for anyone's reference: Keyboard shortcut for swapping colors between fill and stroke in Flash Pro CS6? So far, with other discussions I have made regarding keyboard shortcuts that I wanted to have available on Adobe Animate, I have gotten some remarkable responses of people creating custom scripts that serve the exact function I was looking for. I have lightly practiced with script writing over the past month but I have still not quite perfected it yet.. and still produce some buggy scripts lol. What I have learned from these forums is that there isn't a problem that can't eventually be solved with a custom written script which I love. I am wondering, if someone here could possibly write up a script that simply allows users to swap between "fill color" and "stroke color". I'll assign a keyboard shortcut to it and easily be able to swap between my two most used colors (white and black) without without having to minimize my stage after using the F4 key to maximize it on my screen. Thank you all for reading this and helping me out. ... View more

Hello, This is an issue I have researched here on the forums and the only other relevant thread I found was created back in Feb. 2010 and it is still labelled as "unsolved".. Here is a link to that if anyone needs the proof: Re: Eraser tool erase stuff on all layers....  To start, I am using Adobe Animate CC and my issue is with the eraser tool. I am working on 5 different, overlapping layers for a character that I am drawing out. While working on one of the layers, I decide to use the eraser tool to erase part of a mistake I made. However, upon attempting to erase just the elements on that specific layer (which is also the only one I have selected, the eraser tool ends up erasing everything from all other layers in addition to the one I have selected. This forces me to have to lock all other layers before erasing the target layer and then unlocking those layers again afterwards to then be able to work on them again. In the long run, this will suck up a lot of my time (locking and unlocking) and will only get worse as the character I am drawing gains more layers of detail. I have experimented with the 5 other Eraser Mode options, yet each of them serve their own unique purpose and don't really solve my issue. A good example of what I am looking for in my eraser tool is similar to the eraser tool in Pohotshop. There I can erase, edit, add adjustment layers, overlay shading,/colours etc. etc. to a single layer that I have selected and have it not affect any of my other layers whether on top or beneath the target layer I am working on. Perhaps there is a simple way of fixing this in the Adobe Animate settings, although I am unsure of where to look and what settings to adjust. If there are no such settings, I would like to ask how people cope with an eraser tool that erases everything on all layers it touches? Thanks for the help. ... View more

Hello, I have created an animation in Adobe Animate CC that lasts for exactly 60 frames. Upon exporting the Adobe Animate Scene into a GIF, I then import the GIF into Adobe Premiere onto one of my video tracks. I right click on the GIF clip that is on the video track and select "Speed / Duration", and there in the pop up window, I see that the GIF clip is exactly 53 frames long. This tells me that the GIF lost 7 frames when I exported my Adobe Animate Scene into a GIF. Why does this happen? I have over 10 other Scenes on Adobe Animate to export as GIF's and I would like them to all be the exact length of frames that I set them to in my Adobe Animate project. Any help to explain why this happens or a solution as to how to fix this loss in frames would be a great help. Thanks again ... View more

Hello, I am working on an Adobe Premiere project: an 8 minute long video that consists of footage I shot on my DSLR camera. I am also using Adobe Animate to create some animations of hand drawn characters that I intend to import into my video on Premiere (think of the movie Space Jam - something with this concept of blending live action footage with animated characters). Throughout the 8 minute video on Premiere, I will be importing roughly 50 short animated Scenes all at different times. So I create my first animated Scene on Adobe Animate, drew out the characters and animated them. I then go to "Export to Video", and generate a .mov clip of that first Scene. I then import the .mov clip into Adobe Premiere and place it where it needs to be in my video. Perfect! Now I move onto creating a second Scene, draw out the characters and animate them. I go to "Export to Video" but it ends up exporting both the first and second Scene together as one .mov clip. Now I figured something like this might happen, however, knowing that I have another 48 Scenes to make, I was adamant on finding a solution to this so that I may export each of the 50 Scenes individually. So I thought "hey it shouldn't be too hard to research a way to Export individual Scenes into their own .mov clips".  Though, after endless research, I have not found any truly simple way of doing it. I have read about going to "Control > Test Scene" to export individual Scenes into an .swf and then convert the .swf into a video via Swivel or other software conerters. Though despite this being a workable alternative, it's quite obvious to me that no one would like to use this method as part of their workflow when they have 50+ Scenes to go through and export separately. For the life of me I cannot find a true solution to this issue on the forums except for maybe a few less effective work-arounds such as the one noted above, and even if I did consider them, they would eventually force me back onto these forums searching for a real solution all over again. I am unsure if this discussion will bring about some creative solutions to make exporting individual Scenes as .mov videos from Adobe Animate any easier but it's worth a try. Thank you all for your time and help. Regards. ... View more