FLASH  CS4-CS6

Alejandra Jarabo
MAT 116
Multimedia Arts & Technologies. Santa Barbara City College
WORKING WITH MOTION TWEEN PATHS
 

You can do many things with paths in Motion Tweens. Here I am showing you some helpful examples.

You can curve them, scale and rotate them.

     
DUPLICATE MOTION TWEENS
  

There are many ways of doing a given thing in Flash but you can duplicate a motion tween the same way that we generally copy/paste animation.

 

  
Copy frames pasteFrames
 
 
     
SAME PATH TO A DIFFERENT OBJECT
In many case-scenarios you will need to apply the exact same motion/transformation to 2 different objects.
To do so, you can copy/paste the motion tween to a new layer and then SWAP THE SYMBOL.
You need to have your second object converted to symbol BEFORE you begin this process.		  

 
 
 
REVERSE THE PATH (to move in the opposite direction)
  
You might also need to create a loop where your object does something and needs then to return to the original position.
For that, you copy/paste your motion tween into a new layer,
Then you reverse the path.		  
 
   
 
   
OTHER PATH OPERATIONS
  
There are more things you can do to the path itself, here some examples.