Animation in Xara

[Gare]

Thanks!

Now that's participating! I like it when a post shares techniques and extends what the original tutorial was all about.

I don't know of a lot of people who have created a bouncing ball tutorial, but there's one right here on the Xone:

Having a Ball with Xara

As far as enhancements, the Request Department is >>>right here<<<

As far as animation goes, Xara is capable of keyframing shapes (and groups of shapes) as long as you've named the shape with the Name Gallery, and that the transition you want to create is a "legal" one in Shockwave (swf) file format. It's not really a constraint, because as you've shown with the flag animation, sometimes you can get away without keyframing. Other times, no keyframes produces an animation that's too choppy.

Perhaps if the demand is great enough, we could host a special tutorial, or a main one, in the months to come on animation.

My Best,

Gary

[dcahall]

Yes, that was the bouncing ball tutorial that gave me the idea (of course combined with your techniques).

Off topic: Have you ever looked at a program called ArtRage (not really a competitor for Xara - ArtRage is more of an "art" tool)? Your tutorials are much better than the tutorials for that product. I would love to see you do some for that product as well.