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SuperGenius
Sun May 30, 2004 2:29 pm

Applying tweens to text
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Hey guys, I have a new project in Flash I'm working on, which I need some help on. 

What I want to do is make a banner for my signature. I would like to start with initials and have the rest of the words grow out from them.

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Tony
Sun May 30, 2004 3:17 pm


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you'd have to break the link and turn text into bitmap before you can tween it. I forgot the proper term used for that in Flash, but I suspect its one of the options on rightclicking text object :think:

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SuperGenius
Sun May 30, 2004 3:21 pm


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this is what i did but it's messed up. The font looks nice just by pressing enter but pressing control > enter (and published) it is wrong. I like the flipping effect, and how do i get it to do that without the letter flipping horizontally again in the last frame?


Edit: you cant really see what I'm talking about so i'll include the fla. I know that I made the B face backwards, but the flipping effect is lost if I turn it the other way; this is to show what my intent is.

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Tubs
Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:54 am


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this is what i did but it's messed up. The font looks nice just by pressing enter but pressing control > enter (and published) it is wrong. I like the flipping effect, and how do i get it to do that without the letter flipping horizontally again in the last frame?


Edit: you cant really see what I'm talking about so i'll include the fla. I know that I made the B face backwards, but the flipping effect is lost if I turn it the other way; this is to show what my intent is.

quick fix is just make a keyframe at the last frame inside the tween and delete the keyframe that has it horizontal, then add one frame to the tween.

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SuperGenius
Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:55 pm


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Either I am doing something wrong, or that doesnt work, because i selected frame 23 and tried to convert it to a keyframe but it messes up the tween.... I read that flash does not like you messing with tweens like this..... so now I'm even more confused than before. 

Why do the fonts get messed up when I try to test the movie?
