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Easing can be done using the < and > symbols:
"Accelerating and Decelerating
Usually the tween steps are evenly spaced between keyframes, producing a linear animation from one keyframe to the next. By appending < and > symbols to the front of the object name, you can make objects speed up or slow down. So naming an object >Name means that it starts fast and slows. The opposite, <Name, would start slow and speed up.
You can even use these in combinations. So an object name <>Name would start slow, speed up and then slow down towards the end of the frame period. In traditional animator's terminology this is called 'easing', so you can ease in or ease out, and the command <> would be an ease in/out.
You can control the degree of acceleration or deceleration by using numbers from 0 to 9. So <2Name would be a very gentle acceleration, while <9Name would be extreme acceleration. Similar >2 in front of the name would give a slight deceleration. Using the name >Name (with no number) is the same as >5Name.
Example: there is an example file called Pendulum in the Flash Examples section of the Designs Gallery (click the Disc Designs button on the Designs Gallery). The pendulum group uses a combination of <> and the rotate command. Another example called "Zoom.xar" is also worth examining."
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it works in version 19; I only had a quick look out of curiosity and it appears to me that you can only apply easing frame by frame [not across frames unless I did something wrong]; if that is so then combined with 9 discrete levels only [no curves] it's not very flexible... [which is not to say it isn't useful]
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That's just awesome, Egg. I remember using flash many years ago.
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Animation looks brilliant.
The barrier motion looks very natural.
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Thanks again everybody, good to see so much interest.
Yes, I'm not using Xara for these creation but SVGator which has numerous Easing types. I always disliked gif animations as there's no tweening. You could create it in Xara as Simon states but this was only of use if you were to export as a Flash .swf file which is now long dead.
The train is not only crap but I believe it's too small. I'll try it with a better, larger train.
I wouldn't want to let Acorn down so here's a hand-driven trolley he requested. Can't add it to my level-crossing animation it would require far too much work:
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