shape hint

[Guest]

hallo, , is there anyone who has trouble with SHAPE HINT? I have been trying for two days but it doesn't work, I followed tutorials and even your suggestions, but nothing ... the suggestions in the second frame remain red and don't work. I followed all the suggestions, I work only with shape tweens, with ungrouped shapes, everything that is said in the guide and in the community, is there any bug in the updated version 2 days ago? thanks

[n. tilcheff]

Hi mate,

Just tried them here on An 20.0.1 and see no obvious problem. Hints work as expected.

Make sure you have 'snap to objects' ON when you try to attach a Shape Hint.

If they still refuse to work, try a different file, different version of Animate and so on until you isolate the cause.

[Guest]

ok thanks

[_keyframer · Accepted solution]

I have noticed many issues regarding shape tweens even with the added benefit of using shape hints. It's a voodoo science for sure and even with the simplest of shapes, shape tweening with using hints most often fails for me. It's never been 100% reliable and with the latest release I do think it might even be worse. I just tried to shape tween a square between 2 keyframes using shape hints on all 4 corners and it produced an animation that was very unexpected. 
I'm also trying to animate a character that uses Layer Parenting and strokes. One stroke per layer (2 vector points) and often the stroke flips upside down even when only shape tweening one point across 2 keyframes and when I try to apply shape hints to the stroke, it never snaps no matter what. 
If you can provide a screenshot maybe we can suggest a specific work-around based on what you are trying to do?

[Guest]

thanks, maybe it's only a "snapping" problem

[latostadaok]

Shape hinting + Parenting layers DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK TOGETHER.

When the shape layer has a parent, the shape hinting tool doesn't snap de hints, nor uses its.

Does anybody have a "hint" on  this problem?

[n. tilcheff]

You're not supposed to parent anything other than symbols, which have real matrices.