How to use motion guide in flash
Download the project source motion-guide.zip
We will learn how to use motion Guide to guide our tweened animation.
Note: Please make sure you have already read and understood the tutorial on “Motion Tweening” .
Step 1
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Start by clicking on the first frame of “Layer 1“, just to be sure the object we are going to draw will be placed there. You will see the example on Fig 1.
- Draw any object you desire and add “motion tweening” to it, 15 frames. As show in Fig 1.
- Right-click on the layer that holds your object “layer 1″ and select “Add Motion Guide”
Fig 1
Step 2
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ok, now click on the first frame of the new layer and use the “Pencil Tool” on your left to draw any form of lines, straight or a curved.
I used the “Line Tool“. This will be the guide that our object (yellow circle) will follow when it’s on motion. Look at Fig 2 please.
Fig 2
Easy no?
Step 3
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Good, now right click on the 15th frame of the “Guide” Layer and select “Insert Keyframe“.
This is the result:
Step 4
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Click on the first frame (A) of the motion-tweened object and drag the object to the starting point of the guide line you created.
- Click on the last frame (B) (15th frame in our case) and drag it to the end of the guide line.
Example Fig 3.
Fig 3