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willc36308498
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August 17, 2020
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Shape Tween not recognizing Shape Hints

  • August 17, 2020
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I'm new to Adobe Animate and attempting to create a simple test animation of an isometric cube-button squishing in place.

Intended Frame 1 & 3:

Intended Frame: 2

I've set up my file with each polygon on its own layer. Animating the 'top' up and down is easy enough with a classic tween, but I'm unable to consistently deploy the shape tween for the left and right 'sides.' 

 

The 'right side' animated easily with a shape tween, without using shape hints at all. But the left side wants to switch corners in a way that ruins the effect:

I have tried to use shape hints to prevent this from happening, but to no avail:

I even tried switching hints b and c on Frame 2 just in case something counter-intuitive was happening, but the issue persists:

Can anyone help me troubleshoot what's going on here? If I can't achieve something as simple as pressing a 3D button, I'm a bit discouraged about using Animate for the projects I have planned. I'm working in Animate version 20.5.1, and the polygons were created in Adobe Illustrator and copy-pasted into Animate without much fuss.

 

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    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
    Legend
    August 18, 2020

    Hi mate,

     

    Make sure you put the hints in counter clockwise manner starting from top-right corner.

    Try with only one or two at first.

    The way you have put them now is most likely causing more harm than good.

     

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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    willc36308498Author
    Participant
    August 18, 2020

    Thanks for the tip, Nick — somehow I hadn't encountered that in any of the tutorials I looked at. Unfortunately, it has not had the desired effect.

     

    I tried it with one hint:

     

     

    And also with two hints:

    ...to similar effect.

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    willc36308498Author
    Participant
    August 18, 2020

    Things get slightly better with 3 hints, but no cigar:

     

    But then it works with 4 hints!

    So it looks like 4 is best, but the counter-clockwise, start in the upper-right trick is key to success!

     

    Thanks for your help resolving this. If you have any recommended resources on getting the best out of shape tweens, I'm all ears.

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