Question on tweens

[Tgibs2]

Had a student with a question. Tried to effeciently give her a way to attack a scene. I have a file quick test file, will post the link to it.

1. Tried to have a torch with a loop, nested flame animation tweened, make a graphic symbol out of it.
2. Then on the main time line have a bunch of instance copies of the symbol
3. Paralax the torches lined up going across the scene. 

What's happening is when I go back to the main timeline, and I have all the instances, I try to classic tween a paralax of the torches going across the screen and it's forcing me to create another tween symbol. Once I do that, the nested looping flame animation stops animating. Ugh, help. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xQT60v6pjNBfcLq9Uf5jWo0hxaIkDGPt/view?usp=sharing

[kglad]

is that forced symbol a movieclip?

[Tgibs2]

No I made sure to make them all graphic symbols. 

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

If you have more than one instance in the same layer, you either need to have all of them inside of a single symbol or you need to place each instance in its own layer to get the tween working.

So make sure you're not trying to create a tween between frames that have more than one instance each.

Please let us know.

Regards,

JC

[Tgibs2]

That sounds like the right answer to me! Thank you.  Follow up question, so when it essentially made another symbol out of the group of torches on a single layer, why did it stop the nested animations I had in the instances?

[kglad]

if you fail to use movieclip, not having sufficient frames on the parent timeline will prevent child animation from displaying.

[Tgibs2]

I'm seeing it now. So when the new graphics symbol was created, even though it was a group of graphics symbols already, it created a new graphics symbols "tween" to which I then have to go into that new nest and extend the frames....? This either seems like a very poor design or there reasons for it that I'm not privy too. Surely there is a more efficient way in Animate to do all this?

[JoãoCésar]

This is how Graphic symbols work. Their instances are synced to the parent timeline.

[JoãoCésar]

You're welcome!

The newly created symbol should be a Graphic that has its looping set to loop or to play once.

You can also use a Movie Clip but you would only see the animation at runtime.

[JoãoCésar]

And the timeline of this newly created symbol has to be extended so that the animations of each torch can play along.

[Tgibs2]

Yes, I saw that. Thanks for the replies.

1. So I create an instance. Drag them in.
2. I have to create another single graphic symbol of all the instances.
3. Next, once that symbol is created, I then have to go into it's nest and I have to extend that timeline to the length of the instance graphic symbols inside that... Man. How on earth can I even teach this to students. Thought Animate/Flash was better than this. Any advice is much appreciated.