Nesting Symbol Not Animating In Timeline?

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March 18, 2017
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Hello,

Recently, I have been working on a simple animation that mainly consists of motion tweens. I have a boat, water, clouds, rain, sun and rainbow layers on my stage. I need to make the sun a nested animation, meaning to convert it into a symbol and then alter the brightness so it looks as if the sun is getting darker. I have created the symbol and embedded the colour changing animation within the symbol. When I play it within the symbol itself, it works. However, when I drag the symbol (the embedded animation is saved in it) onto my stage, it doesn't animate. Any ideas what this could be? I'm using Adobe CC 2017 Animate.

Thank you in advance for your reply, it is greatly appreciated.

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Andrew Payson Composer

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A nested animation in a movie clip won't be visible in the main timeline. You have to use the "test movie" button to see it.

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Festive_youth16B8

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My nested movie clip wasn't playing because I had given it a color effect on the parent movie clip timeline. Once I removed that, it played. Then I went to the nested movie clip and changed the color effect to what I wanted on its (the child's) timeline. It still played fine. This was with an html canvas file. I had the same assets working with the color effect on the parent timeline when it was an actionscript file.

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ahmad al haj qasem

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Hey

regarding the nested animated symbol

1. when create your design first you must convert it to movie clip symbol

2. you you double click to make the animation inside your main symbol and then design the object inside the main symbol then don't forget to convert it also to symbol then make the animation.