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May 8, 2013
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Sprite Sheet?

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Decided to try using CS6's Sprite sheet exprter and hoping I am missing something - basically I have an animation of a baseball coming to home plate. The ball is a movie clip that is composed of 11 frames, so that the ball rotates as it moves. However when I export to sprite sheet only the movement of the clip is exported, and not the sub-animation contained in the clip - the rotation. Is this just a FOL and the sprite sheet exporter simply doesn't work? That's what I'm thinking... So anyone know of a sprite sheet export that does work properly? Anyone tried Spriter? I know it's standalone, but it looks promising.

Thanks

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Correct answer kglad

you'll need a spritesheet for your rotating baseball and a spritesheet for the ball moving across home plate. 

or, use a graphic (not movieclip) of the rotating baseball.

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kglad
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May 9, 2013

you'll need a spritesheet for your rotating baseball and a spritesheet for the ball moving across home plate. 

or, use a graphic (not movieclip) of the rotating baseball.

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Anonymous
May 9, 2013

Not sure what you mean about needing two sprite sheets - you can't combine sprite sheets - at least not in the engine I'm using (Impact). I've found one tool called SWFSheet that pretty much does what I need, but it has some flaws so was looking for something better. I'd like for Flash's sprite sheet export to just work properly... but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.

kglad
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May 9, 2013

>>a flash graphic object as in movieclip, button, graphic.  the kind of object most developers never use and frequently used by designers.

Yeah, I guess most developers don't, since I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no idea how to animate something without a movie clip... feeling dumb about now.


on the timeline of the baseball moving across home plate, click on each keyframe containing the rotating baseball movieclip and select the baseball movieclip on-stage and, in the properties panel, change the object from a movieclip to a graphic.

then create your spritesheet of the baseball moving across home platemovieclip.  preview it to make sure its rotating as it moves.

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