My first Flash!

**WolfMoonHP** · 27 November 2006, 04:17 AM

Thanks to many of you, Raymond, Egg, Bill--and especially Sally, I got up the nerve to post my very first Flash animation made with XXPro.

**Intbel** · 27 November 2006, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by WolfMoonHP

Thanks to many of you, Raymond, Egg, Bill--and especially Sally, I got up the nerve to post my very first Flash animation made with XXPro.

That works nicely!
Um, suggestion, if I may - using clipview would have kept the horizontal blingthing within the frame ..

**sallybode** · 27 November 2006, 06:12 AM

Now you have your feet wet, you can find out all kinds of adventures you can have with Xara.

**WolfMoonHP** · 27 November 2006, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by Intbel

That works nicely!
Um, suggestion, if I may - using clipview would have kept the horizontal blingthing within the frame ..

Thanks, Raymond...it was after midnight when I finished this, and I used clipview on the left, but forgot to do it on the right...

For the horizontal blingthing (I can't think of a better name for it than that either), does anyone know how to make it flare? I tried feathering, but Flash doesn't support that.

And Sally, thanks for the encouragement. I still have much to learn, like how to make things rotate properly, etc., but I'm having so much fun with Xara that I'm actually totally neglecting my oils and watercolors...sigh...
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Will

**Soquili** · 27 November 2006, 07:36 PM

Will, very nice for your first flash animation.

Try using circular transparency instead of feathering for the flare.

1. Circle with circular transparency 100% center 100% perimeter
2. Circle with circular transparency 50% center 100% perimeter
3. Circle with Circular Transparency 0% center 100% perimeter
4. Circle with circular transparency 100% center 100% perimeter

**Soquili** · 27 November 2006, 08:05 PM

Another flare with colour transitions.

**WolfMoonHP** · 27 November 2006, 08:33 PM

Bill...

Thanks a lot! I will definitely be playing with these flares.

This version uses circular transparency on the moving ellipse, and clipview on the right-hand side as Raymond suggested.

One sort of neat effect I stumbled on by accident (wish I could claim brilliance, but everyone here would know better

). Notice that the ellipse starts out wide, tapers to be very narrow, then widens again?

This happens when I inverted the ellipse. As it tweens, it shrinks then expands again!

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Will

**Soquili** · 27 November 2006, 08:38 PM

Will that animation is great. I love the sparkle that floats down to the top of the exclamation mark. The ellipse effect is very effective in the animation.

**pauland** · 27 November 2006, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Another flare with colour transitions.

That is definitely creepy.

**WolfMoonHP** · 27 November 2006, 10:34 PM

Bill, thanks for the compliment!

Believe me when I say that if I had not discovered this forum, I would not even be attempting this sort of work! It is thanks to you and many others who are willing to offer help and advice that many of the members of this forum are learning far faster than we could otherwise.

I know that I am grateful, and I'm sure that is true of most of the others as well.

Thanks again!
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Will