Animate

Animate -  Version - 21.0.4Windows 10 - Version -10.0.1I've closed and restarted the program multiple timesI've uninstalled and reinstalled the programI'm been using Flash/Animate for 18 years - (I'm pretty famaliar with how it works)The pencil tool icon is simply not in my tool set. See attached (Pentool.png)When I hit the pencil hotkey (Y) it brings up a different icon. A brush. When I draw with it, it creates a dotted line and when I release from the stylus from the screen/tablet the line fills in as a line. Which is what I want. But is this the new penciil tool? Is this how the pencil tool functions now? See attached PencilToolline (png) to see what I mean when you are drawing the line. But when I release, all those dots form a solid line. See attached NEWPencilIcon (png) I couldn't screen cap the icon because everytime I would, the selection tool would dissappear. So I drew what the icon looks like when I hit the (Y) button. Hope someone can help. Thanks

HiI have a movie clilp with 3 frames.The first and the second are the choises selected.The third one has 2 butons to select.When I click on the mc, it goes to the third frame and display the options.Then when I click in any option, I made changes (this works) and I want the movie click to return to the selected option, but this doesn't workI have this code:this.control_mc.addEventListener("click", control_1.bind(this));function control_1() {         this.control_mc.gotoAndStop("select"); //this is working with no problems}this.control_mc.manual_btn.addEventListener("click", manual_sel.bind(this));function manual_sel() {       this.control_mc.gotoAndStop("manual"); //Here I have few more lines that works as well, but the control_mc doesn't go to "manual"} Any idea?Thank you

I have an animation that loads some XML from my web server using URLLoader (as3). All works perfect except when i try and render the film using Export Video/Media...The XML doesn't load it just hangs on the loading screen.Is this a bug or a security feature?Thanks so much for your help, been working on this for a while and got so close to it working 😞

I have made a background that is the exact size of my stage, but I when I hit "test", there is more space on the left and right than should be on my stage. I'm using ActionScript 3.0 and .swf files. I don't know what I did wrong. How do I make the animation only the size of the actual stage?

When I copy any object, text or shape in an Illustrator document and then try to paste it into Animate it crashes Animate and I have to re-open it. This is not just on my Mac, but on all our Macs. We are fully updated on all Adobe apps (2023 versions). What's wrong?

Hi !  I'm new to Animate - I used to work with Toon Boom, and I don't know if it's possible to modify the Z (depth) of a symbol to put over or under an other symbol when animating my puppet (e.g hand closer to camera, so over the arm in perspective). There's an easy option in Toon Boom, but I only see the Y and X in Animate.  That would be really helpful, thank you in advance ! 

I am extremely new to Animate. I am trying to animate an animal (a fox) that walks across the stage. I don't know how to do this. Should I make the whole fox a single symbol, or should there be one symbol for the body, another for the front legs, another for back legs and another symbol for feet? Will doing separate symbols allow me to move each part independantly? I am very confused about this.

Hi, I'm making a video in Premiere, and I want to place an animated title card I made in Animate over another video layer. The idea is for the title card to open like a two-way diagonal wipe from the center. I looked up how to export video from Animate with transparency, and it worked with another simpler clip (you could see the video layer underneath just fine. However, when I put this diagonal split title card over the video layer, there's a red layer underneath the vector elements as they split open. Once the sequence reaches the two second mark (the title card animation is three seconds), the video layer does show up underneath before the elements have completely left the frame. I have no red layer in my Animate file. I can't imagine why it's doing this. See attached images below. 

Hi, I'm trying to make a programmatic/dynamic banner with textfields that can be changed through a excel file. I want always the same spacing (15px) below the textfields even when the text, that is inserted via excel, is longer than the original one. At the moment the textfields are on top of each other when I insert a longer textfield than the original one.  Can I change that somehow or add code in the html or javascript so it shows the text underneath and with spacing? Here is the preview for the banner if that helps:https://livepreview.adform.com/68559935-1d33-48b1-bd18-98ce863ae5d5/ Any kind of help is very much appreciated!

Hello, I need help:I want to put a sound in the HTML5 banner, and have it play when the mouse passes over it.I also want there to be a one-second delay before activation and also that when they click on the banner they will go to a landing page.Thank you!

I know that .swf is a format that doesn't work in most web browsers anymore because of no more flash player, but, when I use ActionScript 3.0 for an .fla document, I try to export and the result is an .swf file. I have no clue how to open this to work. I tried using the Flash Projector to make it work, but a button that I programmed does nothing. The button is meant to take the user to an external URL, but I either get an error message or nothing happens when I click on it. Why does this happen? Are there other .swf players that it will work on, or is there a different format I can export ActionScript 3.0 on? I cannot use JavaScript HTML because this is a college assignment. I have to use ActionScript 3.0

I have a dedicated object. How do I get its path and name in the library if the selected object is located in several folders in the library? I searched in the documentation but didn't find anything, maybe I just didn't notice the desired objectI was thinking something like this: fl.trace(fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].pathInLibrary) /*The output should be: 'LOGO/qwerTTT/asd'*/ 

I think after the MacOS Venture 13 update it's slowed down or is incompatible with Animate. I checked my specs and clean install the entire thing and it's still insanely laggy?

For some background, I am an absolute beginner with Animate's interface, but I use After Effects on the regular. My goal is exploring workflows surrounding importing/exporting game sprites while familiarizing myself with Animate's interface. For this little test, I'm importing individual animation frames of a character (they're .PNGs) in Animate, adjusting their timing, and exporting a .SWF Library for use in After Effects. My question is, is there a way to drag or rearrange the order of keyframes on the timeline without those frames overwriting other keyframes? I apologize, I'm not sure of the correct terms are for wording the question, so I've included my thought process: I've imported the frames onto a layer and "Distributed them to Keyframes." Each keyframe is an indivdual .PNG file. With this particular animation, I want to drag these three keyframes (see the highlighted selection in the timeline within the screenshot) between keyframes one and two. Anything past ke

I am trying to use the Adobe Support's online User Guide.  The web page is not displaying or working properly.  Any link I try returns to the same page. https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/user-guide.html I tried Chrome and Safari with the same results.  

when I insert audio and get to aroud frame 150-200 it just freezes my pc for a few seconds then closes the app, and also its never able to find my autosave.

Hello, my animate is successfully creating the auto recovery files for my project (sometimes) but when it does, it doesn't do so to the configuration folder in appdata, it posts them into a file recovery folder on another drive, this is bad because it's constantly at risk of being overwritten, how can i change where it autosaves to?

Hi everyone – So I'm kind of stumped on this one. I'm building this animated logo, and I want the "Q" in the middle to reveal itself...I set a mask to unveil the letter in a series of frames....and it operates correctly in the AA window. However when I export it out to HTML or an MP4, the mask doesn't function, all I get is this (i've attached a screenshot).Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've included the working file as well. Help would be greatly appreciated. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZHEzVjAyo2FxTvBuP7ZlOn0ya5lB6a-/view?usp=sharing

Looking for file that was on the app

I tried out Clip Studio Paint and honestly the vector eraser that deletes partial line segments is amazing and increases my work flow drastically. It makes clean up feel extremely rewarding and fast, however I much prefer Animate CC's animation process and would like to see it intergated into Animate CC. I know it already has an eraser for whole lines and maybe simpler to impliment. I'd love to see it become a part of my favorite animation Software. Thank you!

My issue is a bit complicated, and i couldn't find anyone with a similar problem here:My Project has a lot of nested movieclips. The point is, you're supposed to be able to pick multiple options, which then have their own multiple options. For example, you can pick between the type of furniture, the size, and the color.   The hierarchy of the clips looks like this:   Each timeline has a short script with this.stop(); on a separate layer,In the main script each timeline has a gotoAndStop(); that specifies the "default" frame i want it to start on.It works fine by default, but when i try to select other options, the "default" returns to 0, and the next button i press makes everything play through their timelines once.I'm guessing that pressing the buttons overrides the stop() and gotoandstop(), but i don't know how to prevent that.Does anyone else know what to do?

HiI'm trying to expose my logo using mask and I'm struggling.Can someone help me? how am I supposed to do this?I want the Q to be exposed with mask. thanks. 

when i out two different lines together, it auto connects and i cannot seperate them using ungroup. anyone know why??

Hello,  am having issues with Adobe Animate since last update, I cannot open an existing .fla file i have created yest on the app. the app is actually open, i can create new file, or choose to open the recent ones, (i need to keep on working on the recent files) so i open the file but nothing happen as if the laptop was struggling opening it... if any of you can help it would be great...thank you   

I want to make an array of all the boxes on screen but it's also counting the mouse trails. This is the code I'm using which I don't understand in depth because I'm not an expirienced coder. How do I make it only count boxes, do I use an if statement? stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, eee);function eee(event:Event){function getCircles(container:DisplayObjectContainer):Array{for (var i:uint = 0; i < container.numChildren; i++)if (container.getChildAt(i) is box){var array:Array = new Array();array.push(container.getChildAt(i));}return array;}blah.text = String(numChildren - 2)}