Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Complex

Graphics

on a Single Layer

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In Chapters 2 and 4, you learned to make and

modify simple individual shapes from strokes

(lines) and  lls by using Adobe Flash CS4

Professional’s drawing tools. In your movies,

you’ll want to use many shapes together,

and you’ll need to combine strokes and  lls

in complex ways. You might combine several

shapes, such as ovals and rectangles, to create

a robot character, for example. To work

e ectively 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 di erent layers. In this chapter ...