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Finally! Inverse Kinematics for Flash and Animate

Guru ,
Sep 11, 2021 Sep 11, 2021

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The Electric Dog team is proud to introduce Electric Dog Flanimate Power Tools v.6

 

EDAP Tools v.6 is a huge milestone not only for us and the constantly evolving Smart Magnet Rig system, but a turning point in the history of Flash Animation.
For the first time ever, with the release of EDAPT Tools v.6, professional-grade Inverse Kinematics tools are available for the Flash / Animate platform.

 

Here is an incomplete list of some of the more important new features:

  • Professional-grade implementation of Inverse Kinematics, available as a premium feature.
  • Full integration of Layer Parenting into the Smart Magnet Rig workflow.
  • FreeStyle Rigging tool – now a separate tool, with improved stability and performance.
  • SMR Helpers panel – a new interactive panel with a customizable set of buttons.
  • SMRize Parented – an automated script, which converts a Layer Parenting rig into a Smart Magnet Rig.
  • Layer Parenting Toggle – a new toggle command which works with SMR.
  • Make Edaptable – an automated script, which unifies the positions of Registration and Transformation Points.
  • Element Welder – a function which welds a child element to its parent for all KineFlex transformations.
  • EDAPT Commands panel – a new interactive panel providing alternative access to commands.

 

For the full change log and details, please, visit:

https://flash-powertools.com/whats-new-in-edap-tools-v-6-0-0/

 

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

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Guru ,
Sep 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021

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Just to add one more video with a longer demonstration how the IK tools are used for animating.

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

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Explorer ,
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021

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Have you got this to work in conjunction with the warp tool (bitmap or vector warp asset?) yet? That's the only thing stopping me from using it daily.

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Guru ,
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021

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You can nest the warped assets inside graphic containers and that will work just fine.

 

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998
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Guru ,
Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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And one more 🙂

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998
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Community Expert ,
Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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Awesome, Nick!

 

I wish Animate had tools and and workflows like these.

 

Please keep it up!

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Mentor ,
Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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? This is a plugin for Flash/Animate, so Animate now offers these tools via Flanimate.

Or am I misunderstanding something?

 

Anyway, excellent release, Nick!

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Community Expert ,
Sep 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021

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Hi.

 

Yeah, it's a set of custom tools and extensions/plugins for Animate.

 

What I meant is that I would like Animate to have tools like those natively.

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Guru ,
Sep 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021

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Element Welder and nesting techniques for organising multi-part elements of a single object.

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998
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Sep 18, 2021 Sep 18, 2021

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Techniques to clean up the movement of elements during Classic Tweens in SMR.

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998
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Guru ,
Sep 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021

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SMR Effectors and IK Chains:

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998
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Guru ,
Sep 26, 2021 Sep 26, 2021

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How joint constraints work:

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998
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Guru ,
Nov 01, 2021 Nov 01, 2021

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Our friend, the amazing Matt Fryer, has just published this super super cool video on TipTut: "The Revolution has begun!"
Don't miss out! Hurry up to see it and post a comment below it 🙂

 

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

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