Would you, please, provide a screen shot of "properties - advanced settings and you will see the anchor settings where you can select the center"? ... View more

Hi mate, As far as I know, this (Animate CC not working with MS Surface Pen) has been a long-standing issue with tens of people reporting it. As far as I know there have been multiple announcements that it has been fixed. But after the announcements more users report that they cannot use the Surface Pen to draw in Animate. I have seen some reports for fixes, but then more users jump in and ask the person how they did it and never receive an answer. I don't have a Surface device, but from what I have seen in forums, it seems that at this stage An CC does not work with MS Surface Pen and there is no fix to it. I may be wrong, but these are my impressions from multiple posts over a long period of time... ... View more

Sadly, this is how things work: People who like certain features quietly enjoy them. People who dislike these same features criticise them loudly and persistently. The brush had been receiving so much hate for so many years and finally the ones who shouted the loudest were listened to. Whether they are happy with the new brush is unknown. Now the people who loved the old brush suddenly realise they've lost something that they valued. (Same applies for many other features.) ... View more

Most likely with the next update. But when that can be expected, I have no idea. Maybe someone from the dev team will cast more light on the matter, probably Mohan? Mohanaraj​ ... View more

Yes, with very simple script and label, I believe, you can set any portion of your Timeline to loop until you press a button to go to a new location and play from a new label. Basically like this: Section 1 - frames 1 to 300; label A on 280, script on 300 telling it to go and play label A When it reaches frame 300 it goes back to 280 until you break the cycle with the press of a button. Button tells it to go to Section 3 which starts at frame 600 and ends at frame 900, where we have another script to tell it to go to label C which is at frame 850. And so on... There are people here who are much more knowledgeable than me in the the area of interactivity, so I will leave the specifics to them. ... View more

ClayUUID said: I was unaware there was any confusion on this subject. 1) Put the transformation point where you want the symbol's center of transformation. 2) Keep that point exactly the same across any linked tweens. Pretty simple. Yeah, mate, that's exactly what I meant with the second half of the first sentence: "... not well-understood within the Flash animation community, even among many industry professionals with decades of experience." The robot on the right illustrates the results of this 'pretty simple' approach. ... View more

Hi mate, you should have posted at least the model of your drawing tablet. See if anything said in this topic brings helpful information: drawing ANYTHING creates a line in it I believe that Animate has had input issues with some non-Wacom drawing devices for years. Good luck! ... View more

Glad you got it working, mate! It's good to leave some more specific details what exactly you did to fix it so that others with the same problem could benefit from our exchange. Best NT ... View more

What input device are you using? ... View more

I'm so sorry for such loss of work! You should get into the habit of saving as... a new file 2-3 times a day. Even in the worst case you only lose several hours of work. Also it's good to do nightly backups to external devices before shutting down, in case your computer does not wake up (or boot) on the next morning. It probably won't help with the masks, but have you tried to switch off Advanced Layers in that file? Best NT ... View more

ps. No, you were correct the first time - it's the Transformation Point that may drift away - the little white circle which you can move on the outside of a Symbol instance. The Reg Point is the little cross that you cannot move. The Transform Point snaps back to the Reg Point when you double-click it with the Q-tool. ... View more

Scenes... I understand. Next time Best approach would be to keep each scene a separate FLA. Since you are working on such a huge and important project, just another warning: Keep saving as.. and having versions of your file as you go, several times a day, as there have been many reports of AnCC corrupting files during save lately. Make backups and take all possible precautions. Good luck! ... View more

Hi mate, I'll address the issues that I believe I have some information or opinion about, but before that, just like you, I'll say I've been using Flash for 20+ years and some of the frustrations with it motivated us to start the EDAP Tools project. If you're unfamiliar with our work, come have a look! 1. Transformation point and all other 'inexplicable' small changes that happen as you progress, I believe, are due to poorly implemented rounding of calculations. They vary from version to version. Best practice here is to register your symbols properly, using the Reg Point as the important one and not rely on Transformation Point unless it is some temporary exception. Because if it starts drifting away you can always double-click it and it will snap back to the Reg Point. I have an in-depth article in the making about "Understanding symbol registration" If you are working inside a container, i.e. if your content is nested inside a symbol, the further you are from that symbol's Reg Point the bigger the anomalies will be. Pay attention to this and you might notice a pattern. 2. There are some improvements to audio in the newly released AnCC 2019.2. I have not checked that out yet. 4. I have 3 simple commands to switch between Single frame, Play once and Loop and have mapped those to 1, 2 and 3 on the NumPad. Very fast and handy. Never worries me at all. Here they are. Put them in your commands folder and assign shortcuts. 5. Using Scenes is a bad practice. Don't use scenes for any serious work. 6. Performance drop has been huge, starting in An CC 2018. If you install An CC 2015.2 you will notice it is significantly faster than 2018. In fact if you go to Flash CS6 you will be blown away by its speed and reliability. Animate CC feels and behaves as a perpetual beta. I work on serious character animation with huge timelines and I can't move on past CS6 for my work. You can have CS6 alongside your latest An CC. I have all the AnCC releases to test and they are not performing to a satisfactory standard to be able to make the switch. We have reported the performance drop to the dev team. Whether they will be able to improve it I have no idea, but they are aware of it and I think that they are genuinely trying to improve Animate. Hope this is of some help! NT ... View more

History panel will work just out of the box, mate! It creates a clickable list of all your actions, so with one click of the pen you can jump 1 or more steps back. Just like this: ... View more

This was a confirmed 'known issue' in the last pre-release of 19.2. I thought they would have fixed it before pushing the update If you tend to use groups, you'd better go back to the previous version, mate! ... View more

Thank YOU, resdesign! The support and the friendly welcome are very much appreciated. My landing here a few weeks ago was quite accidental, but when I think about it I should have come a long time ago. ... View more

Hi Christian, I'm very much interested what others would reply to your inquiry... Just one question: If I understand correctly, your animations don't seem to be interactive. Is this correct? If they are linear movies are you not considering rendering them as video (MP4) to be a viable option? You can embed those videos anywhere on the web. Maybe you should give more specific info about the type of animations you do. Best regards NT ... View more

What exactly are you struggling with, Jane? A rant helps release some steam, but if you really want help, calm down and ask a question. Animate has some good resources and tutorial pages. Animate Get Started Animate tutorials | Learn how to use Animate CC As for youtube, sadly I tend to agree - it is full of very active and confident amateurs with huge followings, spreading misinformation and sub-optimal practices. This is the nature of de-centralised, democratic and unvetted information-sharing. The one who shouts the loudest and appeals to the lowest common denominator gets pushed to the top. My advice in this regard is to look for written articles, which may have videos as illustration, but also serious textual part. This indicates that the authors have invested some time in this, rather than just screen-capturing. Also there are some good books, like Chris Georgenes' "How to cheat in Flash / Animate" series. Hope this helps! NT ... View more

I love to sperg, mate! It's popular in this forum. No such thing as Russian characters. It's called the Cyrillic alphabet and does not originate in Russia Кирилица - а, б, в - азбука. ... View more