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daniellec11772128
daniellec11772128
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July 10, 2019
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Trouble with a shape tween!

  • July 10, 2019
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Hello everyone,

I am trying to rotate a rectangular prism in adobe animate. I made a 3D shape with the pen tool, then used the direct selection tool to move the vertecies where I want them to go. When I apply the other types of tweens, nothing happens, it just jumps to the next frame. But when I use the shape tween, my prism travels through the fourth dimension as seen below. None of the points overlap on their travel paths. It looks so simple on the tutorials, but I'm at a loss. HELP!!

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Correct answer n. tilcheff

Hey mate,

Shape hints are easy. Just start with only two keyframes and one pair.

Make sure your shape is broken apart, i.e. is not a drawing object.

Hints come in pairs. When you add a hint to the first key another is automatically added to the second key.

Have object snapping on (the little magnet) and just drag the hints with the V-tool.

There was a shape hint bug in one of the recent versions, but I just tried on the main timeline in 19.2.1 and they seem to work fine.

Arrange them from top-right in counter clock-wise direction.

Good luck!

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ClayUUID
Braniac
July 10, 2019

This is exactly what shape hints are for.

Shape tweens

daniellec11772128
daniellec11772128Author
New Participant
July 12, 2019

Thanks for the reply. I've tried those, but they just wont snap to the object. Even with object snapping on (I've also tried different combinations of snap settings with no luck) the hints stay red. I read that they are a pain to use in Animate CC, but is there anything I can do to specify the point to the program?

n. tilcheff
n. tilcheffCorrect answer
Braniac
July 12, 2019

Hey mate,

Shape hints are easy. Just start with only two keyframes and one pair.

Make sure your shape is broken apart, i.e. is not a drawing object.

Hints come in pairs. When you add a hint to the first key another is automatically added to the second key.

Have object snapping on (the little magnet) and just drag the hints with the V-tool.

There was a shape hint bug in one of the recent versions, but I just tried on the main timeline in 19.2.1 and they seem to work fine.

Arrange them from top-right in counter clock-wise direction.

Good luck!

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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