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Animate - flipping the stage

  • June 6, 2018
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Is there a way in Animate CC (18.0.1) to flip an entire stage/movie. I have a 150 frame, multi-layer animation of a number of right-facing objects moving left to right across the screen. I want to be able to flip everything horizontally so that they become left-facing objects moving from right to left. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer JoãoCésar17023019

Hi.

Not the stage itself, but you can flip the main timeline using AS3 pasting this code in the first frame:

AS3 code:

if (!this.flipped)

{

    this.scaleX = -1;

    this.x += stage.stageWidth;

    this.flipped = true;

}

But the best practice in this situation is to select all objects at once and flip them. Like this:

- Go to the bottom of the timeline;

- Click the Modify Markers button;

- Select Marker Range All;

- Then click on the Edit Multiple Frames button (Shift + Alt + E);

- Press Ctrl/Cmd + A to select all objects;

- Go to Modify > Transform > Flip Horizontal.

This should do the job.

Demonstration:

I hope this helps.

Regards,

JC

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June 6, 2018

Hi.

Not the stage itself, but you can flip the main timeline using AS3 pasting this code in the first frame:

AS3 code:

if (!this.flipped)

{

    this.scaleX = -1;

    this.x += stage.stageWidth;

    this.flipped = true;

}

But the best practice in this situation is to select all objects at once and flip them. Like this:

- Go to the bottom of the timeline;

- Click the Modify Markers button;

- Select Marker Range All;

- Then click on the Edit Multiple Frames button (Shift + Alt + E);

- Press Ctrl/Cmd + A to select all objects;

- Go to Modify > Transform > Flip Horizontal.

This should do the job.

Demonstration:

I hope this helps.

Regards,

JC