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Inspiring
June 8, 2018
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Classic Motion Guide does not work as expected

  • June 8, 2018
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Hi there,

I am using a Classic Motion Guide in HTML 5 Canvas project but I have encountered a problem.

Please have a look at the image. When I test it in Animate CC with Enter it all looks good.

When I test it in browser or publish, the plane goes straight from point A to point B.

Thanks for your help

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    Correct answer Colin Holgate

    there u go

    https://we.tl/R6hEzwjk2U


    Lines that loop, like in your original and in my test, do work fine. But dotted lines don't. Either redraw the lines as a solid line, or change the line style to solid, and you would also need to delete any left of blobs from the dotted version. Then it will work.

    Animate, and SWFs, know that a dotted line is a regular line that looks dotted. CreateJS doesn't know that, so the line gets converted to a lot of short vectors, and the guide breaks. At least that's my guess! Old tutorial videos on how to use guides may have used dotted lines without running into problems, if they were for SWF.

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    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    June 8, 2018

    I tried a test of that, and it seems to work for me. You could use the developer tools in the browser to see if there are any errors. Or, if you have somewhere you could post your FLA, and give us the link, we could look for what is wrong.

    Inspiring
    June 8, 2018

    Hi Colin

    Thanks for that. Which tab should I use from the Developer tools

    Is it when I test in Browser or I should publish it on a network?

    Thanks

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    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    June 8, 2018

    Just do a Control/Test Movie/In Browser from Animate, then show the browser's Console/Errors.

    The first part of this article shows how to get the developer tools in different browsers, though I think you got that far already:

    How to access the developer tools in your web browser and collect a 'HAR' file for escalation - Sophos Community

    You're just looking for any errors that show up. If there's one about favicon, that's ok. If there are other errors it might give us some clues.