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The bone tool no longer in flash pro cc?

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June 19, 2013
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Correct answer Devendra Kumar

Hi All,

Bone tool is back to Flash CC 2015.

Flash Professional Help | New features summary

-Devendra Kumar

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evanm74683038

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Yaaay!! Adobe heard its users and gave us back our beloved bone tool! Thank you

Subash Asokan

Community Manager

Learn more about the Bone Tool: Flash Professional Help | Bone tool

rezun8

Inspiring

as of today Flash CC 2015 it is back in Flash

_keyframer

Adobe Expert

That is correct - the Bone tool is back.

Animator and content creator for Animate CC

MACinTUTOR

Inspiring

Chris Georgenes' excellent book "How to Cheat at Flash" taught me to appreciate all the bone tool can do, I am very glad to see it back. Perhaps the Deco tool can also make a triumphant return in the new 64-bit Flash.
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Mahmood Zidan

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Bone tool is back to Flash CC 2015.

Devendra Kumar

Correct answer

Community Manager

Hi All,

Bone tool is back to Flash CC 2015.

Flash Professional Help | New features summary

-Devendra Kumar

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evanm74683038

New Participant

I am so upset that the bone tools have been deprecated! I used those tools every day to animate characters, and now that I've "upgraded" to the latest version, suddenly a tool I have relied on for years is no longer available. I am spending good money every month and I have to say between the issues I'm having with Illustrator CC and now this, I am really beginning to question my investment. Not just question, I am beginning to regret it.

Herbert2001

Inspiring

Yes, it is a loss. Flash's bone tools never were that subtle, but they were quite workable.

As an alternative, try Anime Studio - its bone tools and character animation options are far, far superior to Flash.

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evanm74683038

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I was hoping to leverage Flash's bone tools combined with its built-in ability to output directly to a PNG sprite sheet. It appears I'll have to animate in After Effects, which I generally dislike for character animation, and figure out my own method for outputting to a sprite sheet. I'm already paying monthly for CC, I can't afford yet another package to animate with, sadly. Thanks for the advice though.

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NFB_VM

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I guess this is for historic documentation at this point...the Flash Pro CC webinar on Jan 13, 2015 had no mention of bone tools, although the good news is that Adobe is still developing Flash Pro CC with export to a variety of platforms.

As for bones, Spine by Esoteric software Spine: 2D animation software for games is currently doing some incredible work in this area. It has bones, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Meshes, and Free Form Deformations. Best of all, elements are targetable by AS3 - perfect for games where you need to swap body parts out on the fly or programmatically transition between animations.

It's a shame that Adobe hasn't implemented something similar in Flash Pro CC - it's the next logical step in animation production workflow tools.

Adobe, if you're listening, please implement bones into Flash Pro similar to the way Spine is implemented. The animation market is evolving past you.

Herbert2001

Inspiring

One wonders if any bone tools are ever going to be reimplemented in Flash at this point. Seeing that Adobe is touting their new character animation tool aptly called "Adobe Character Animator", one muses why all that effort was put in a new product, rather than integrating similar features in Flash.

Adobe must have given up on supplementing character animation tools in Flash.

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Blaskotron

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Finally had a project with a figure to animate and the bone tool is gone, dammit.

Herbert2001

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@Blaskotron: try AnimeStudio Pro - it has excellent bone tools, and a full graph editor. Then export to Flash.

Well, it's been more than four months, and still no bones/motion graph editor in sight?

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ChrisGeorgenes

Participating Frequently

Hang in there a little longer. It may seem like it's never going to come but it could be seen as Adobe trying to hard to get it right by developing/testing/gathering feedback from beta testers.

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JeJuneH

New Participant

Adobe plans to release a more streamlined animation workshop than flash. Flash has not been updated (it's codebase) much since it's release, and it's too resource-heavy on the client machine.

Also, there has been major pressure from Apple (a long-time ally of Adobe) to drop flash, as they do not support it in their mobile i-devices (not including laptops).

Long story short, Flash is likely to be deprecated.

HelenWLee

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I think this was one of the more ignorant comments so far.

It would be nice if someone from Adobe could bother to comment on this.

Herbert2001

Inspiring

As to whether Flash will be dropped or not - I do not think so: merely its role has changed/ Adobe did drop the ball in regards to the animation market, however. I think the loss of the bones tool is in line with this change in direction.

Perhaps the devs will bring back similar functionality in a future version of Flash, but I doubt it. The animation market is quite specialized, and products like Toonboom and Anime Studio have filled the gap.

For those who miss the bone tool, I suggest to invest in a tool like Anime Studio (the non-pro version is very inexpensive), which has an excellent bone-based IK system with full contraints (and is far more controllable and powerful than the old bones system in Flash ever was). My workflow consists of animating characters in AS, then import into Flash if required.

HelenWLee

Inspiring

You can add DragonBones to Flash pro allthough it´s not the same and not all that useful for animators, for video and movies. For game animations and other small or scripted animations it´s a nice tool. http://dragonbones.github.io/getting_started_en.html