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In this
tutorial, you will learn how to work with rulers and
guides, use oval tool to create effects for different
parts of the image, adjust vector curves, use shape
tween with radial gradient fills, create motion tween
in combination with advanced color style for movie clips,
use instance name and arrays to randomize the animation.
You'll be amazed how fast you learn Flash MX!
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| 19. Press
and hold Shift and draw a circle . |
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| Select the internal
part of the circle. Delete it.
Select "View > Guides".
Uncheck Snap to Guides and Show
Guides. |
| Minimize Timeline
and Properties windows. Zoom in your
image. |
20.
Adjusting.
Using Arrow Tool:
1) Select whole stroke and move it using arrow
keys.
2) Deselect stroke, place the pointer on the part you
want to adjust.
When a curve appears next to the pointer,
you can adjust the stroke.
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| Using Subselection
Tool (press A): Select the stroke. |
| Select the anchor point.
Move it using arrow keys |
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Place the pointer on a tangent
handle. When the pointer changed drag the tangent
handle. To drag tangent handles individually
press and hold Alt.
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| Using Pen
Tool (press P) add anchor points
if necessary. |
| Tip: you
could make several copies of the stroke, place them on
separate layers and try to adjust each stroke. Then choose
the best result and delete unnecessary
strokes. |
| 21. Select Paint Bucket
Tool (press K) and fill circle. Delete
the stroke. Lock Layer. |
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| 22. Unlock
Layer 1, copy instance of "space"
Movie clip, insert new Layer and paste
in place the copy. Select Layer where the circle
is placed, Right-click and choose Mask. |
| 23. Unlock masked Layer and
click on the first keyframe. Change Tween
to Motion in the Properties
window. |
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| 24. Select the
instance of "space" Movie clip on the stage.
In the Properties window change Color
to Advanced, click on Settings. |
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In the Advanced
Effect Dialog make changes you like. For additional
information about advanced effect take a look at
Help > Using Flash > Index > Advanced
effect, for symbol instances.
Lock masked Layer. The color
of the planet is changed to advanced
while rest of the image is not.
Insert about 90 frames for all 3 Layers.
Insert keyframes (F6) for masked Layer
at frames 4,7,10,13. Unlock masked Layer . Set the Color
of the instance to None at keyframes
1,7,13. Test your Movie. You should
see the effect.
Also you can try to apply Advanced Color Effect
on the Layer 1.
Save .fla file
DOWNLOAD .fla (planet_start.fla) |
| 25.
It's time to add some glow to the planet.
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| Select
Layer 1 and make it invisible, then insert
new Layer. Change Background Color to
black or dark blue in the Document Properties.
Unlock Mask Layer and click on the first
keyframe: circle is selected on the stage.
Copy it, deselect and
lock Mask Layer. |
| Select Layer we'
ve just created, Paste in Place (Ctrl+Shift+V)
the copy of the circle. |
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| Open "Window >
Transform" (or press Ctrl+T).
Check Constrain and set 150%.
The circle size is changed and we can see it. Make all
the other Layers invisible. |
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| 26. Open Color Mixer(make
sure the circle is selected). Set Fill Type
to Radial. Set Color of both gradient
pointers to white and Alpha to 0%. |
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| Add a pointer
to the gradient (click on or below the gradient definition
bar). Set a color for the new pointer to white, Alpha
to 0%. |
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