Strange animation after formtween

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November 13, 2025
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Hi,
I try to animate a line to a pyramide but the form makes strange movings after I add the formtween.
It looks like that Animate is animating the wrong bezierpoints.
How canI get it to proper work?

Z

Zack_Kev8642

Inspiring

Yeah, this usually happens when Animate guesses the wrong points. Adding shape hints in a clean order fixes most of that weird twisting. Sometimes dropping in a simple middle shape also helps the tween settle down. It takes a minute to set up, but it makes the animation much smoother.

n. tilcheff

Legend

Experiment with adding more Shape Hints - starting with top-right and going counter clock-wise.

Organize your keyframes better, so that you don't transition from a rectangle to a triangle.

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

Jan-Frederik

Participant

I forget the function of the shape Hints. It's been years since I used animate aka flash.
Good hint with the counter clock-wise!

Organize your keyframes better, so that you don't transition from a rectangle to a triangle.

What exactly do you mena with better organize?
I could try to animate the triangle as own object and not directly from the rectangle which I have scaled.

Best