Macromedia Flash 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide

9. Animation with Motion Tweening

Drawing-Objects and Motion Tweening

Motion tweens require graphics that are in some form of container. In previous versions of Flash, to create a motion tween, the only graphic-container options were groups, symbols, or text boxes. Flash 8 gives you another choice: drawing-objects. When a drawing tool is set to Object Drawing mode, each shape it creates automatically winds up in a container. That means you can use a drawing-object directly in a motion tween without first converting the shape to a group or symbol.

Animating movement and changes to shapes by hand (frame-by-frame) is labor-intensive. Macromedia Flash 8 reduces the number of frames you must draw when you use a process called tweening. In Chapter ...