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October 24, 2023
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Some symbols have glitched tweens or can sometimes disappear after exporting

  • October 24, 2023
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Hey, this is my first time posting something to the Adobe forum, so hopefully I'm speaking in the right place.

So, I'm playing a file that I had animated over the past month. Roughly 70-75 seconds long, uses just under 29 MB, and runs on ActionScript 3.0. When I'm playing a file inside, everything seems to be going normal except for some output lag probably caused by the density of symbols in some areas. That's not really my problem here. The problem I'm having here is that sometimes, the tweens of symbols (primarily nested symbols) tend to glitch and show themselves being extremely buggy. Not all tweens do this, but even if a tween looks completely normal in the file, it will tend to do actions post-export that should not be possible.

An example of this I will provide is a symbol that moves down through a Classic Ease. Some symbols nested within this symbol will pulse colour at specific intervals, but as a separate symbol they do not move other than the Color Effects being tweened (it just moves with the symbol it is nested inside of). Looks normal in the file, but after exporting, these parts of the tween will move in the opposite direction of what is displayed in the file, before jumping back to it's proper end position at the end of the tween. Some other symbols may also overshoot their designated tweens post-export, going too far in the tweening motion before jumping to it's intended spot at the last frame.

And then, the biggest exporting issue I'm having right now is that some symbols masked in the main file (aka. not nested inside any other symbols) will not show at all. What looks like a proper motion inside the file becomes mostly a black screen in areas where it is masked, but all symbols/objects that aren't masked still show. One reason I think this may occur is the fact that some layers inside the mask are locked to the camera tweens (I used the camera tool as well), and others aren't. But then again, if this really made such a massive issue, then shouldn't Adobe Animate prohibit users from individually changing whether or not masked layers follow the camera (as in, if the mask parent is locked to the camera, all masked layers must be as well, and vice versa, regardless of what layer changes this status)?

All symbols inside of my file are Graphics. Not sure if that may have anything to do with any issues, but if you believe it does, let me know! And if showing the exported files compared to the parent files to show what should show up would help, I can provide them. Same will go for any other questions you may have.

Thanks!

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Correct answer Mario_CR

Oh.
My.
God.
I legitimately thought we were talking about the Adobe Animate files being privated somehow. Turns out, I forgot to make the Google Drive folder public indeed.
I'm so sorry for all the confusion, because turns out I did, in fact, confuse myself. Let's try this again. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I8d1XtU9qIQKXxrK0iVpHVdR6S75H-oB?usp=sharing


Ok, I did some tests and it's clear we're dealing with two bugs here:

 

#1 Involves frame filters: At 0:12 - 0:19 a tint color effect is making "Symbol 18" tween incorrectly. No other frame effect seems to be bugging out as far as I can tell.

 

Workaround: Remove the effect on the frame and re-apply it at object level on the graphic symbol instead.

 

#2 Involves pin to camera: At 0:33 - 0:36 and 0:41 - 0:44 you have a mask layer with several masked layers underneath, with only some of them pinned to the camera. On the timeline it looks fine but on the SWF preview the unpinned masked layers are thrown off a corner outside the stage which is why they're not rendered.

Workaround: Pin all the masked layers to the camera; once you click the pin to camera button you'll see how the layers become misplaced, adjust them manually and move them to the center of the stage, after doing so the layers should appear on the SWF properly and hence on the exported video as well.

 

 

I'll make a bug report to the dev team about this and hopefully they can fix these in the future.

 

 

Here's the corrected file. Let me know if it works for you: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OO_F8Bla-b3x5ltLLgZY7zXuSWYhHefp/view?usp=drive_link

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Mario_CR
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2023

Hi, could you provide the file to pinpoint what the issue is? You can do so using a file sharing service like google drive, onedrive, wetransfer etc.

ChromatiXAuthor
Known Participant
October 24, 2023

I'm trying to link the .fla so you can access it, but every time I try to post it with that file, I get this message:

Mario_CR
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2023

It's not possible to upload these files in the forums, please use a file sharing service like I mentioned.