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How to replace a PNG with a Vector animate file and have it retain its position in the timeline?

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December 6, 2018
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So I made some assets for a character in Adobe Photoshop and it doesn't look great. It has a strange hard edged outline of the colour behind it as shown in the screen shot below.

As you can see they're all PNGs in the file Test 1. However, I have already done a bit of animation for it using those assets. Is there a way I can redraw the assets as symbols in Animate and have them retain the same position in the timeline as the current PNGs?

I'm using Action Script 3.0.

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Correct answer JoãoCésar17023019

The download link is in the video description:

Swap External Bitmaps.jsfl - Google Drive

Download the script and place it in the commands folder.

<disk letter>:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC <version>\<language>\Configuration\Commands

Example:

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2019\en_US\Configuration\Commands

Regards,

JC

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You should be able to open the Library panel, locate the bitmap in question and "Edit with Adobe Photoshop..."

Once you edit and save it, it should auto-update in AnCC. If not, right-click again over the bitmap in the library and select "Update".

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_keyframer

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To answer your question specifically about re-drawing the asset while keeping it in the same place, assuming the bitmap is inside a symbol already, then double-click that symbol, insert a Blank Keyframe in frame 2, turn on Onionskin and redraw it. Or you could try the Trace Bitmap feature. But I recommend redrawing for cleaner vectors...

I attached a video of me doing this for you....

ForAlexa_AnCC.mp4 - Google Drive

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alexa50707689Author

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Hi, Thanks for your reply. That's great. Would there be a way to make it so that my redrawn assets as you've done would retain their position through multiple frames, or would I have to redraw every single frame?

JoãoCésar17023019

Community Expert

Hi.

Please have a look at this thread and tell us if it helps you.

Re: Importing overlaying Photoshop layers produces unwanted artifacts

Regards,

JC

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alexa50707689Author

Inspiring

Hi. Thanks for your reply. In this video: Animate CC - Script to replace imported PSD bitmaps - YouTube in the video you click command and swap external bitmap, but I can't see that in Animate CC 2018.

JoãoCésar17023019

Correct answer

Community Expert

The download link is in the video description:

Swap External Bitmaps.jsfl - Google Drive

Download the script and place it in the commands folder.

<disk letter>:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC <version>\<language>\Configuration\Commands

Example:

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2019\en_US\Configuration\Commands

Regards,

JC

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