How to create an animation on Webdesigner ? I'm lost

[ewsg]

Hi,

I purchased Xara Webdesigner 6, and I am totally lost on how to create an animation on it.

I was accostumied with Adobe Flash, and: where are the timeline? hehehehe

I don't get to create a simple animation on Webdesigner 6. Is there some thread or discussion/video describing it, please?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

[Big Frank]

Hello ewsg,

XWD is a web design package. It doesn't create animations (not in the strict sense of the word), you have to create your animation in another application (like Flash, or animated GIFs created in Xara apps) and then embed them into your HTML pages.

I hope that helps

[covoxer]

Frank you are wrong.

Web Designer has all the animation capabilities of the Designer Pro.
You can create simple animations quite easily.

Please see the "Flash Animations" topic in the Web Designer help for details.
Alternatively you can find some tutorials on this forum: http://www.talkgraphics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=49
(check the locked threads at the beginning).

[Big Frank]

Frank you are wrong

I most certainly am! And how!!

[steve.ledger]

I don't get to create a simple animation on Webdesigner 6. Is there some thread or discussion/video describing it, please?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Who better to talk about Xara/MAGIC's flash capabilities that Charles Moir himself.

Enjoy
► http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x62...oto-g_creation

Then have a look at this thread:
► http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=25088

[Dr_Who]

Up until now I have been ignoring the animation part of XWD6 because it looked rather daunting...but now after the threads I have read and the magnificent Sledger posting that video...wow a whole new part of the program just opened up for me.

Thank you

[ewsg]

Hello friends,

Thank you very much for the informations and for the videos.

Fantastic! I will now start to (try) make animations on Xara Webdesigner 6, and see what I can do!

Thank you again!

[ewsg]

Hi,

I am starting now some animations on Webdesigner 6, but, is there effects we can use?

If so, where can we find them, please?

Thanks!

[ewsg]

Hi,

I own both Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 and Webdesigner 6.

Today, I was totally unable to create a simple animation on Webdesigner 6.

I only got this on Photo & Graphic Designer 6. The same procedure I done in Photo & Graphic Designer 6 to create the animations was made on Webdesigner 6, but nothing was animated.

And, another question I would like to ask, please, is regarding animation on Photo & Graphic Designer 6. Are there effects we can use?

And, regarding the frames, a simple animation with around 20 seconds takes more than 110 frames, and I noticed that I don't get to create fluid animations.

To move a simple text from a place to another is extremely complicated, and I don't got to do the interpolations that the Xara's CEO done on his video.

To change an object from a color to another was impossible, to me. At least, in that fluid and perfect way. I tried to play with the duration of each frame, etc, but... I could not do a perfect job.

I followed the video instructions created by the Xara's CEO, which is regarding an older version, and done the same.

But, I found the above problems.

Could someone help me, please?

[steve.ledger]

Thread merged.

Remember that objects to be animated need to be named so that they will smoothly 'tween' from one position to the next in flash.