Animating Gradient Fills not showing

[Inélsòre]

Dear all,

I am following the Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book, LESSON 9 Animating Shapes and Using Masks.

In the subchapter Animating Color > Adjusting the gradient fills, in page 384 the book says to move the playhead along the timeline between the first and second keyframe.

What happens for me is that the flame disappears between those keyframes either in symbol-editing mode or in the ordinary Timeline. 

What am I missing?

I'm on macOS 12.6.8, Animate 23.0.2

Thank you!

[kglad]

is the lesson for an as3 project and is that your project type?

[Inélsòre]

I'm using the assets provided by the book.

The book says it is indeed an ActionScript 3.0 project.

How can I check if this is the case? What may I do if it is not?

[kglad]

copy and paste a screenshot of animate showing your file name.

[Inélsòre]

Page 364 says to call it like that.

[kglad]

good. you have an as3 project.

now, is there a tween on the problematic timeline?

[Inélsòre]

On the main timeline there appears not to be because the lesson made me change the layer into a symbol in an earlier stage. This is the main timeline:

And this is the symbol's timeline after entering symbol-editing mode from the Library:

The curious thing is that the tween between keyframe 1 & 2 is apparently not working (I'm animating the gradient fill with the Gradient Transform Tool) while the tween between KF 2&3 is working as expected (I'm animating the colour of the gradient via the Color panel). All this following what the lesson says, no independent thinking so far 🙂

[kglad]

when you scroll the timeline of the symbol with the tween, you see a problem?

or when you scroll the main timeline you see a problem (which is probably expected if your symbol is a movieclip and not a graphic symbol).

[Inélsòre]

As stated in the OP, yes, there is a problem. Copy-pasting from above:

"the book says to move the playhead along the timeline between the first and second keyframe.

What happens for me is that the flame disappears between those keyframes either in symbol-editing mode or in the ordinary Timeline."

In case this is not clear, here is a video of what I see: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/078ekeOx_-HObXUAM5XoFVdEQ#Screen_Recording_2023-08-08_at_18.27.45

[kglad]

you have tween problem. what kind if tween? (motion, shape, classic)?

[Inélsòre]

Shape. 

All lesson is about shape tweens.

[kglad]

copy and paste (don't attach) 2 screenshots. one showing the start frame and the other the end frame.

[Inélsòre]

Start frame:

End frame:

[kglad]

when you double click that shape on stage (in each keyframe), do you see an empty stroke in the properties panel?

or do you see:

[Inélsòre]

I see "fill only", and I recall this was the instruction at the beginning of the lesson, to have the shape without stroke.

[kglad]

ok, just to clarify: on the timeline with the flame screenshots, you fail to see a flame in frames 2, 3 and 4.

if that's correct, upload your fla to a file server and post a link here.

[Inélsòre]

That's correct.

Here's the file: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0eeyYnXT0aN_AcHQbcpXaHQVg#09_workingcopy

[kglad]

as far as i can tell, that looks like an animate issue.

to fix: 

create a new layer in flame with keyframes at 1 and 5

copy the on-stage shape from the original frame 1 and paste to the new layer frame 1

copy the on-stage shape from the original frame 5 and paste to the new layer frame 5

add your shape tween. 

[Inélsòre]

I'm not sure I understand.

Should the new layer be created in symbol-editing mode?

How can I copy the on-stage shape from frame 1 and 5 if they are not accessible, since the layer has become a symbol?

[kglad]

edit your symbol timeline.

[Inélsòre]

Creating a new layer in the symbol timeline, then deleting it (because I thought I had followed the wrong instructions) apparently fixed the issue... 

[kglad]

glad it's resolved.