Adobe Flash CS3 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 5. Complex Graphics on a Single Layer

In Chapters 2 and 4, you learned to make and modify simple individual shapes from strokes (lines) and fills by using Adobe Flash CS3 Professional’s drawing tools. In your movies, you’ll want to use many shapes together, and you’ll need to combine strokes and fills in complex ways. You might combine several shapes, such as ovals and rectangles, to create a robot character, for example. To work effectively with complex graphics, you must understand how multiple graphic elements—merge-shapes, drawing objects, and primitive-shapes—interact when they’re on the same layer or on different layers. In this chapter, you learn how to work with multiple graphic elements on one layer in a Flash document. (To learn ...