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mdhawan
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July 1, 2020
Question

How to change the color multiple frames in a symbol

  • July 1, 2020
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So my issue is that I created an animation in black, it had symbols and frame by frame animations within the symbol. I then decided I want to make the animation in white instead. I tried to highlight all the frames within my symbols to change the color but that did not work. So instead, I had to go frame by frame and change the color of every single frame (each symbol had 115 frames)

 

My question is, is there a feature that would have allowed me to do this more efficiently and if not can i give product feedback to develop the functionality?

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n. tilcheff
n. tilcheff
Brainiac
July 1, 2020

Hi mate,

 

You can use Find and Replace Color from the Edit > Find and Replace menu:

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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    mdhawanAuthor
    New Participant
    July 2, 2020

    Hi mate!

     

    Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately it did not work for me 😕😕 

     

    I have 3 screenshots below:

     

    1st - Shows the black color present in most frames below

     

    2nd. Shows me selecting all frames and trying the find replace functianlity with current scene selected

     

    2nd. Shows me selecting all frames and trying the find replace functianlity with current document selected

     

    Let me know what you think, thanks!

    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
    Brainiac
    July 2, 2020

    It's hard to tell what the reason for that might be, mate!

     

    Make sure you colour pick your black, just in case if it's not 100 black.

     

    I can see you have some symbols. If you have just created them but have never entered them, the stuff inside might be invisible to Animate. You may need to manually enter each one of them and deselect the content.

     

    Try Find and Replace in a new file with a few boxes to get and idea how it works and make sure that it actually works.

     

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