Animation in Xara

[dcahall]

I made the animated flag by using the techniques you outlined in the "An Experiment in Photographic Special Effects" article. First I created the flag object and gave it a name (which you must do to animate something in Xara) and then I used the Mold tool as you outlined in your article to change the shape of the flag in a series of frames. I am sure that if I played around with it a little more, I could get it to go a little smoother but I was trying to learn how to do something like this and thought it came out as "acceptable". I also got some ideas on the subject from another tutorial I had watched (can not remember who wrote it) about a bouncing ball. This was my first real attempt at animation using the PGD tool. I am attachig the .xar file if anyone wants to see how it works.

BTW: I think the subject of animation would be a good thread. I would like to see some type of enhancements in the Xara products for animation and even some combination of the PGD and Xara 3D to strengthen what could be done.