Animate

Hi! I've moved to a UI programmer position in a games company and I'm unused to Flash, though I used it a tiny bit back in the day to experiment with making games. I've inherited a bunch of flash files and would like to explore what's in them, but it seems like I can't do that, so I'm interested in what I'm misunderstanding, or not aware of, and also interested in ways to fix it. Here's what I think I know.- A flash file has a library, which is a set of user-defined archetypes.- There is also a scene, which seems to be recreated when opening a movieclip from the library for examination.- Movieclips can have children.- Looking at the timeline there are layers. These don't correspond to child movieclips but can own them in some ways, allowing you to hide/lock them.- There used to be a pane called "Movie Explorer" or something, in Flash, that got deprecated when they made Animate.- No substitute was made for the removal of this feature.- There is currently no way to see exp

I'm using Adobe Animate 2020 on different devices, but when I use it on my MacBook Air, it looks strange (see on picture). All icons and the stuff on the right and left are bigger than normal and I can hardly work like that, because my screen is not that big. Do you know how I can change that to normal?

I have a video that is played by the Adobe Animate video component. I would like that after the end of this video, the animation moves forward one frame. I need to control the time of the video. Does anyone know if this is possible in HTML5?

Even after using the correct way of accessing an object when Advanced Layers is ticked, I am not able to access the object. The comipler is not showing any errors but when testing, it won't even recognise the button as a button. It doesn't even change the cursor and when clicked, nothing happens. stop(); GrowButton.home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, start);function start (event:Mouse event):void{      gotoAndPlay(105);}

This must be really basic, but I can't figure it out. How do I switch to outline mode for onion skinning? Flash used to have its own button. I've found an icon that I think is supposed to control this (two overlapping squares) but it's always greyed out. 

Hi I've made a very simple animation. Followed the tutorial by CC. When I 'test' in web browser the animation works. When I click the little play symbol within Adobe Animate window, nothing happens. When I export an animated gif, nothing happens it's also static. Is this an easy fix. I have 3 simple things moving on the page. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

animate bug.jpgHi, Recently I got a Huion GT 221 Pro tablet and downloaded some of adobe's products onto it. The pen works fine in Photoshop however in animate it keeps drawing lines almost a couple of inches below where I put the pen, I'm not sure if this is a problem with the tablet or adobe nut I'd appreciate any help. Thanks,Blake 

When I open animate my wacom tablet thinks its being viewed over all 3 of monitors instead of just one. I'm using Animate 20.0.2 which should've included a fix for this issue but its still not working. Wacom works properly in every other adobe program.

I have a Wacom drawing tablet and I have it so I can use it on one monitor out of the 3 I have attached on my computer. For some reason though whenever I have adobe animate focused with my tablet the cursor goes to all 3 monitors on the screen instead of the one I have setup with photoshop and illustrator. Why is that happening?

Wacom pen mapping settings won't work in Adobe Animate 20.0.2, but will work for other Adobe programs (Photoshop and Illustrator). I configure the map to apply to only a portion of the tablet in the top left. This top left mapping works for other Adobe programs, as well as general OS navigation, Chrome, Spotify, etc. As soon as I enter Adobe Animate, it no longer uses the previously defined pen map. The pen acts as if the map included the tablets entire width and height. I have updated Wacom drivers.I have restarted computer.I have unplugged/plugged tablet in. Only fix: older versions of Animate (20.0) Please help.Thanks! I'm using a Wacom "Inutos Art, Comic, Photo, 3D (2015) on Windows 10 Home. 

Hi, recently I've been having a ton of issues with Animate and I'm trying to figure everything out. For some reason, Animate won't let me map my tablet to one monitor, despite all my other drawing programs letting me do so. This problem is fixed when I switch back to 19.2.1, but then I have issues with the line quality being extremely inconsistent.If there is a solution for the mapping issue or the line inconsistensy problem, either solution would work. Thank you.

Howdy, I need a bit of help. I'm trying to create an input field (text) that when you enter a number (say 50) and then action a button that the movie timeline goes to frame 50 and stops. Thanks Simon

I've created 2 layers in animate - one with colour, the other with 'multiply' blending effect applied.  I want to create a mask so both layers can be revealed but to do this I have to merge the layers into one, however when I do this, I lose the blending effect.  Does anyone know how I can merge the layers and preserve the multiply blending effect of the layer?  Thank you in advance!

Hey,So basically i have a walk cycle already created but at the monet the charcter just walks on the spot so that the background can move behind him to make it look like hes moving hower there is also a scene where the background stays still. How would i make my still walk cycle move along the screen while keeping all the arm and leg movments doing the same thing I dont know if that makes as much sense but hopefully you can help Thanks

Can SWF files be played in Microsoft PowerPoint?  If not, what would you suggest is the best format to export a FLA file to be presented in a PowerPoint presentation.

Hi, I'm trying to mask a layer with another animated movieclip in a masking layer. The masking layer is made up of a number of concentric circles that are scaling in relation to each other. The problem is that animate doesn't seem to consider the outer outlined circles in the mask (I've converted the outlines to filled shapes rather than strokes so it's not that I'm trying to mask with a stroke). Instead, animate masks using only the center filled circle. (I've attached an image to help demonstrate what's going on)Is this a limitation or a bug in Animate or am I doing something wrong? 

Hello everybody,I will first apologize if the question has already been asked before on this forum, I am a complete rookie. ^^' So a week ago I decided to buy the Adobe Creative Cloud package for students, for around 20.00€ per month. I was mainly looking for Adobe Animate and Photoshop so I started by downloading Animate CC. I went on my account page on the Adobe website, downloaded "Animate_and_Mobile_Device_Packaging_Installer.dmg", opened and followed the instructions. Then, after that I registered another time, and gave a few information about me, the downloading process started. It reached about 20%, but then completely stopped. The remaining time was about 45 minutes according to Adobe, so after 2 or 3 hours where nothing happened (still blocked at 20%), I decided to restart from scratch. Same process up to the beginning of the download, but this time, it reached 0,6% and, like the first try, stopped progressing at this stage. It was also written this time "error P81",

Hello, I am hoping you wonderful people can help me, again. I am having an issue with the output I get from one of my animations. As you can see in the video below when I export it, what is supposed to be a flying car does not display properly. It appears to be the correct image, just not rendering at the right scale. It’s difficult to explain, the video shows it clearly. As you will also see, the preview when I scrub through the timeline displays it mostly correctly, although as I zoom out, it disappears. I’ve had the disappearing issue before, but its always exported correctly. I just assumed that the live preview cut down on detail. At the end of the video you can see that I do have a work around, if the camera is zoomed in far enough, it renders correctly. I can make do with this, but I’d rather understand the underlying problem so I can fix it for future projects. I have tried my usual choice for exporting, a jpeg sequence, I’ve tried PNG, GIF, SWF, all to

I am trying to simulate a dice roll in an activity for my class. I can generate a random number between 1 and 6 and place it in a textbox on the canvas.What I need help with is how to display a series of numbers in the text box before it stops at the final numnber (sort of like a dice roll) Here is where I have got to: function rolldice(){     for (i=0; i<10; i++){.    // the idea here would be to display a series of 10 random numbers between 1 and 6 with a short pause in between.          this.num1.text=randomIntFromInterval(1,6).      //this is a function I use and it generates the random number. num1 is the name of the text field.          setTimeout ....... //this is where I have trouble ... I don't know if I am using the correct idea.     }} I wonder if someone can give me a hand with this. Thank you 

I want to create a book within Flash Animate on letter size paper. What are the stage  dimensions in pixels so when printed will fill letter size paper? Thanks

When I test my animation using ctrl+enter the swf file doesnt show exactly where I'm placing my camera. Say I want it to just show the top of the triangle, itll show the top and more. The camera tool just isn't lining up with where I place it in the swf file. Please help!!! thank you!!!

The AMPHTML Ads BETA extension for Animate does not launch. Please update us Adobe on when we can create AMPHTML Banners in Animate. thanks.

As the title suggests, I am struggling to stop the frame picker from looping the frames when I test the animation. Everything is fine when I play the animation in the timeline. The single frames would play as intended. however, the test animation window tells a different story. Is it suppose to that? How do I fix this problem?

I have seen similar questions about this on forums from years ago, but I have not seen an answer that solved this problem. Maybe someone now has a solution. I am trying to add voices to characters in my animation, and when I play the animation in the frames, the voices are in sync, but when I hit "test movie," the voices fall out of sync after the first few lines (the sound begins too early). I even tried pushing back the sound in the frames to be behind, but it does not have an equal effect at the "test movie" stage. My sound files are MP3, they are set to stream, repeat x1. I also tried adjusting the frame speed to 23.98 per second as another forum suggested. Nothing works. I spent 5 weeks on the animation just to be stopped by this issue as I was about to finish. Very frustrating. Feeling like Adobe Animate is ripping me off. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I am working on a project that needs to shape tween the letters 'be' into the letter 'a'. The only instructions I can find in the Animate tutorials has a box become a circle. I have converted the letters into symbols but it doesn't work. I have tried the process with the letters un'symbolized'. The 'Shape Tween' option is not available to me in either instance.  Help!