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‎Aug 03, 2021
10:24 AM
I've created a jar in Photoshop 2018 using the 3D tools by revolving a shape through 360°. When I map an image onto this extrusion by pasting it into the Extrusion Texture document it appears twice on my extrusion, once on the front and again on the back, both versions being horizontally scaled so that there is room for both of them. This is despite the fact that the image only appears once in the Extrusion Texture document and it fills the whole width. This has happened to me a couple of years previously I was able to fix it by changing a setting somewhere, but I can't remember what this setting was or where to find it, and unfortuanley randomly clicking on stuff doesn't bring up anything familiar. Please someone tell where to find the setting I am looking for, and what to change it to to allow the image to wrap once around the whole extrusion. Thanks!
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‎Jun 19, 2021
03:25 AM
Adobe seems to be pushing the Properties Panel as the panel to use for object information and manipulation, so why do the attributes available in both the Properties Panel and Transform Panels work differently when scaling? If I change the width or height of an object in the Transform Panel and hit either Tab or Rturn whilst holding down the Command Key (on Mac) the object will scale proportionately, even if the Link Icon is not seleted. Why doesn't this behaviour also work in the Properties Panel? The only way to scale proportionately is to have the Link Icon selected before changing the height or width values. This makes no sense to me. Surely the same key modifiers should work in the same way in all panels. Am I missing a setting somewhere or have Adobe missed a trick here?
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‎Aug 14, 2020
09:06 AM
I've been able to unmark the answer is correct, so hopefully that will stop people being confused. What version of Dimension are you on? I have had to revert to V1.1.1 as the later versions don't work on my Mac despite being able to download and install them. It may be that the most recent version has sorted this out.
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‎Aug 14, 2020
08:56 AM
I couldn't get this to work, despite further searching very much seemed to indicate that Translucency was the right direction to be going in. It worked in the preview but not in the actual render. Finally I got around it by rendering twice. Once with the decal removed and using transpaency settings based on those supplied above, and then again with the decal applied and tranparecy removed and comping the two results together in Photoshop. Not the ideal solution but it got me a usable image in time to meet my deadline.
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‎Jul 06, 2020
07:54 AM
1 Upvote
Thank you. That was a remarkable piece of lateral thinking and exactly what I needed. BTW what exactly does ~F do?
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‎Jul 06, 2020
06:30 AM
I am laying out a peotry book and I need a way to automatically place a paragraph at the bottom of the text frame on a page but in a way that it is attached to the rest of the text on the page and will move with it shhould I need to move the text to another page. I had thought to use the footnotes function, but while it is easy to hide the footnote number reference in the text - I place it at the end of the last line and create a character style with no fill or stroke colour, I can't find a way to make the number at the beginning of the actual footnote "disappear" without leaving an obvious indentation at the start of the footnote line. Is there a way to do this? Or alternatively is there a better way to do this? I want to force to last paragraph in a text frame (that is linked to all the other text frames in the book) to the bottom of the frame whilst keeping all the other paragraphs in that frame in their normal position hanging from the top off the text frame. The space between this final paragraph and the one before is variable from page to page so I can't use paragraph spacing. Hopefully that makes sense and someone has a solutions for me. Thanking you all in advance.
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‎Apr 30, 2020
01:30 AM
I've done that. It appears that I am one in very long line of people with a similar problem. While Adobe fixes the problem where can I get hold of a copy of Dimension 1.1.1 from? It worked perfectly and unlike the other Creative Cloud applications doesn't appear to have kept the older version on "upgrade".
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‎Apr 29, 2020
08:57 AM
Help! Adobe Dimension 3.2.1 will not start on my Mac. I get as far as the Welcome to Dimension screen and then I can't do anything. Nothing I click on works. I upgraded from 1.1.1 but despite having selected keep old versions the old version has gone - where? I tried dowloading the oldest version now available (2.3.1) but that won't start either - I don't even get to the Welcom To Dimension screen. I'm on Mac OS 10.13.6 running a Mac Pro 2010 5,1 with 64GB RAM and 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 graphics card. Is there any way of getting hold of version 1.1.1? That worked fine for what I need. Thanks!
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‎Apr 26, 2020
04:39 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks. Turning Overscroll off sorted out the zoom centering problem, although it did reset my view to the centre of the canvas when I exited the preferences dialogue box! I can't help thinking this behaviour is a backward step. I had overscroll on in Photoshop 2018 and it didn't affect the centring of the zoom.
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‎Apr 24, 2020
09:12 AM
I have overscroll on because I need it for other things. Is that the culprit? It wasn't a problem in CC 2018.
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‎Apr 24, 2020
08:19 AM
Thanks but neither setting makes any difference. Zoom is always centred on the canvas instead of my current view.
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‎Apr 24, 2020
07:13 AM
Since upgrading from Photoshop CC 2018 to CC 2020, using Command + to zoom in and Command - to zoom out now takes me to centre of the canvas rather than being centred on the view I had previously. This very frustrating on large documents where I need to work at high magnifications and quickly zoom in and out to see what I am doing as each change in magnification takes me away from the area where I am working and drops me in the centre of the canvas. What setting in preferences have I missed to re-enable the old way of using maganification? Macintosh OS - High Sierra with Photoshop CC 2020.
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‎Dec 10, 2019
12:11 PM
I'm trying to make a transparent wrapper in Dimension so you can see the contents within. The wrapper has a Decal applied so I can't use the transparency setting. A search tells me to use the translucency setting. In the Design window playing with this parameter gives me the look I want is rather crudely rendered. However when I do a proper render the wrapper just ends up white opaque. What am I doing wrong and while I am at it can someone give me some decent settings for a crear plastic wrapper with relections on it? I'm using Dimension 1.1.1 which is the highest version my Mac supports. Thanks!
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‎Oct 29, 2018
03:04 PM
Many thanks. Unfortunately I'm finding JavaScript particularly impenetrable. If I have to apply this function to 3 different Text Input Components which bit do I need to change in order to address each Component? Also do you have any ideas on how to restrict the number of characters that can be typed into each Text Input Component field. In AS2 I could limit the number in the Text Field Properties, but of course this is not available in HTML5 and JavaScript. Thanks!
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‎Oct 29, 2018
02:58 PM
I'm sorry ClayUUID but I simply do not understand a word of what you have written. What is an argument in JavaScript (or ActionScript) and how exactly does it work. To me those are just two random words that do not appear to connect with the rest of the function. And why do I need to write (e) instead of just ()?
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‎Oct 29, 2018
01:00 PM
I'm sorry. You must think I am stupid beyond belief, but I can't make this work and I can't understand why. I assume that I have to replace "#inputText" with the instance name of my Text Field? (which is "#pets_txt") I've done that and the Text Field remains blank when I run the file. I know that my instance name is right because I've been able to style the input field using an external CSS file. Any ideas? I realise that I am trying to run before I can even crawl let alone walk, but this was all so easy in AS2 and just seems to me completely impenetrable in JavaScript.
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‎Oct 29, 2018
11:59 AM
I don't think so. I'm trying to convert my AS2 bit by bit so I can see what works and what doesn't. At the moment I am falling at the very first hurdle. I have this very simple function which is supposed to look at the contents of an Text Input Component (called pets_txt) and if it is blank, insert a "0". And if there is something in the field it passes it to a variable called "pets". if (this.pets_txt.text == "") { pets = 0; } else { pets = this.pets_txt.text; } The biggest problem I have is that firstly my AS2 is very rusty - haven't used it for about 5 years, and I simply don't understand most of the JavaScript I'm being offered. I was told that if I understood AS2 I would find JavaScript easy, but I simply not finding that to be the case. In your example above why is there an "e" in brackets in line 01? And what does this statement ("tick", tickHandler) in line 06 actually mean/do?
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‎Oct 29, 2018
11:39 AM
Thanks. However it's not working for me with even a very simple function inside the "tickHandler". Am I supposed to be changing any of the code other than dropping my loop code where it says?
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‎Oct 29, 2018
11:15 AM
I am repurposing an old Flash AS2 project which now needs to run as an HMTL5 one. My main function entirely revolves around the AS2 "onEnterFrame" command. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent in JavaScript. How do I trigger a function in the same way?
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‎Oct 29, 2018
10:47 AM
Thanks. Unfortunately my curved path is more complex than the one in the example, and my understanding of JavaScript is far too basic to be able to see if the example linked to can be modified to my needs.
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‎Oct 26, 2018
01:21 PM
Many thanks for this improved version. I managed to get mine to work by changing: (this.button.x - this.bar.x) to (this.button.x - this.bar.x - 1) but I suspect this only works because the movie clip is so wide (1625 pixels) that removing 1 pixel from the calculation I could keep everything contained without it looking wrong. Is there any way to get the slider to move freely along both the X and Y axis while only tracking the x position? Thanks!
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‎Oct 26, 2018
12:56 PM
I used the following example as a starting point: Slider to control timeline However my slider needs to travel along a curved path. In my original version that wasn't interactive the slider simply animated along the path using a guide path. So using the linear example above I can control the movie clip using a second slider, but obviously that is constrained to moving along the x axis only, and with a rising curved bath the controlling slider and the animated sliders diverge. What is the best way to stop this from happening? My initial thought was to make the controlling slider invisible and then when released it would snap to the position of the visible slider on the y axis, but I have zero idea of how to make this happen. If there is a better way of doing this I'd be happy to use that, but please bear in mind that I know almost zero about javascript, so if I have to have to modify something existing I'll need it spelled out for me. Thanks!
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‎Oct 26, 2018
08:47 AM
1 Upvote
And here I am with questions. I have several but I think it's best to try and fix the problems one at a time. I've used the code from the example and even used the same instance names and your slider and percentage text which is helping me see what is happening. The first problem is the fact that if I drag beyond the right hand side of the movie clip it will go back to frame one. The slider that I am dragging stays where it is as it can't move beyond 100% but the elements inside the movie clip that is being controlled all go back to the first frame. If I drag back to the left, when the mouse pointer re-enters the right hand side of the movie clip the contents jump back to the last frame and I can drag back through the movie. This problem doesn't happen if I drag past the left hand bound of the movie clip. Any ideas why this is happening?
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‎Oct 25, 2018
07:39 AM
1 Upvote
Thank you JC. I didn't spot that the bar itself was a movie with a timeline. However I'm sure I'll be back with more questions when I can't make my movie work properly.
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‎Oct 25, 2018
07:23 AM
I have a project that I original created in Flash CS5 (ActionScript2) to update and I'm completely stuck. It shows a graph with a curved path and a slider that travels along this path which is linked to other events happening along the timeline. In the original version this was non-interactive and as the movie played the slider simply moved along its curved path backwards and forwards, and other elements animated in sequence with it. Now this needs to be revamped in HTML5 Canvas, and not only that but the client wants the animation to be interactive, so that as the user drags the slider the other move to their relevant positions in the timeline in synchronisation with the position of the slider. I hope that makes sense. The position of the slider links to the position of the playback head in the movie clip. I hoped, since I already had the basic animations all linked together on the timeline, that I could have some way by which the position of the slider corresponds to the position of the movie timeline, so that when the slider is fully left the timeline is at frame 1 and fully right it is at the last frame. Also as the user drags the slider the other elements move in real time as the slider moves from frame to frame. I had a look at the example in this discussion: Slider to control timelinebut there's no timeline in the movie clip and the slider is constrained to horizontal movement only, whereas mine needs to travel along a curved path. What I was thinking was to have an invisible button over the top of my slider that can move along both the X and Y but only the X position is tracked and when it is released it automatically jumps to the correct X Y position of the visible slider, but I can see how to bind any of this to the timeline position within the movie clip. Is that the correct way to go or is there a simpler or more elegant solution? If so some pointers please. Please bear in mind that last time I did anything serious like this I was using ActionScript2 in Flash CS5, so not only am I very rusty when it come to writing script, but now I need to use JavaScript for which I have very limited experience. All help greatly appreciated.
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‎Oct 24, 2018
10:00 AM
Thanks I've figured that bit out. Now how do I make the background for the component transparent while keeping the contents (text) visible?
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‎Oct 24, 2018
08:57 AM
Where does this styling code go? Can I put it in with all the JavaScript, or will I need to manually add it to the HTML file every time I publish?
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‎Aug 10, 2018
10:29 AM
Thanks. The project has been delayed for a couple of weeks and having discovered some more about what is required there's going to be quite a bit redesign for both the graphical elements and the functionality so much of what I created previously will have to be completely reworked. Anyway, now I've got a chance to get my head down and start doing some learning without being on a tight deadline for answers. I'll post new threads as and when I have questions.
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‎Aug 08, 2018
10:03 AM
1 Upvote
Thank you everyone who has replied so far. Having followed kglad's advice I converted my original Flash files to HTML5 compatible versions and as a result of all the errors and warnings I got I have a whole host of follow-on question before I even get into converting my ActionScript to JavaScript. Is this the right thread to post them in or should I start a new thread for each individual question?
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‎Aug 08, 2018
04:26 AM
Ten years ago I was creating lots of things using Adobe Flash with complex animations and ActionScript 2 coding for added functionality. However, I haven't done anything new with it for about 5 years, so I'm way behind when it comes to the latest practices and functionality. One of my clients has got in touch with me about re-puposing some Flash interactive animations I created as pat of bigger project, but of course now for maximum compatibility I need to publish them as HTML5 rather than SWFs. Last time I needed to do this I used the Swiffy Flash conversion tool, but that is no longer available. Having had a play about with the latest version of Animate CC, it appears that in order to output my animation as HTML5 I need to start the project from scratch as an HTML5 project, and I won't be able to simply republish my existing .fla files. Also unless I'm mistaken I will have to do all my coding in JavaScript and not ActionScript. Can someone at least confirm that this correct? Also can someone please recommend a good book for both the latest version of Animate CC and JavaScript as it applies to Animate CC. For Animate I just need something that will catch me up from Flash CS5 to the latest version, but for JavaScript I'm very much a beginner I would like to find something that is specifically geared towards people who want to use it in the Animate authoring environment. I would prefer physical books, but if there is an excellent web resource that can be accessed at times when I am off-line that would be acceptable. Thanks in advance.
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