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MichaelMiles
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April 27, 2017
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Customize Camera Behavior?

  • April 27, 2017
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Adobe Support threw me to the forums for help here.  I enjoy the idea of the Camera view to Pan/Zoom for my animation, saves an enormous amount time.  Except that I also need buttons on the animation to control it.  Play and Continue.  The animation zooms into a detail, stops and explanation is listed for the detail.  When user is done reading, they would then click 'continue'

Issue is!  The Camera zooms/pans all elements, all layers.

Wouldn't it be great if you could have a layer that isn't affected by the Camera?

Anyone have a clue how to customize (Adobe Support's words, not mine) Animate to do this?

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Correct answer Colin Holgate

The thing that gets zoomed around is MainTimeline. That has a parent of Stage. I tried this:

this.parent.addChild(box);

where box was something on the main timeline. If I scrub the timeline the box gets zoomed and panned with everything else, but when I test movie, the box stays where it is.

That could be a work around.

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ClayUUID
Legend
April 28, 2017

Man, thar thread title is not at all descriptive of what you actually wanted.

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MichaelMilesAuthor
Participant
April 28, 2017

What would have been a better title so I can do a better job in the future?

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
April 28, 2017

I think your title was ok, given that Adobe support had told you that it was custom camera behaviour that you wanted. Your first post explained things well.

Colin Holgate
Colin HolgateCorrect answer
Inspiring
April 27, 2017

The thing that gets zoomed around is MainTimeline. That has a parent of Stage. I tried this:

this.parent.addChild(box);

where box was something on the main timeline. If I scrub the timeline the box gets zoomed and panned with everything else, but when I test movie, the box stays where it is.

That could be a work around.

    Asymetrical
    Asymetrical
    Inspiring
    April 27, 2017

    You're genius Colin!

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 27, 2017

    i don't understand the problem, but you can't control individual layers.  layers don't exist in the published files.   they exist for content creation convenience.

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