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Motion Path Tutorial

The document provides instructions for creating a motion guide in Adobe Flash CS4 to animate a ball along a path. It involves drawing an oval, converting it to a graphic symbol, adding a classic motion guide layer, drawing a path on the guide layer, placing the ball graphic at the start and end of the path on different keyframes, and creating a classic tween to animate the ball along the motion path.

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Motion Path Tutorial

The document provides instructions for creating a motion guide in Adobe Flash CS4 to animate a ball along a path. It involves drawing an oval, converting it to a graphic symbol, adding a classic motion guide layer, drawing a path on the guide layer, placing the ball graphic at the start and end of the path on different keyframes, and creating a classic tween to animate the ball along the motion path.

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Adobe Flash CS4

Motion Guides
1. Open Adobe Flash CS4 and click on Create New Flash File (ActionScript 3.0).

2. Select the Oval Tool and create a small circle in the upper left corner of the stage with
any stroke, stroke size, and fill you like.

3. Click on the black arrow from the toolbar.


4. Double click on the oval. Make sure the fill and stroke are both selected. They will be
filled with white dots.

5. Go to Modify > Convert to Symbol.

6. Name the symbol Ball and choose Graphic as the Type. Click OK.

Your symbol should now look like this:

7. Double click on Layer 1 on the timeline and change the name of the layer to Graphic.

8. Right click on the Graphic layer and select Add Classic Motion Guide.

The layers should now look like this:

9. Click on the Motion Guide layer (the new top layer) to make it the active layer. Click
on the Pencil tool on the toolbar and draw a path on the stage for the ball to follow.

10. Click on frame 50 on the Motion Guide layer and press F5 to add frames.

11. Click on frame 1 of the Graphic layer and select the black arrow from the toolbar.
The layers should now look like this:

12. Drag the ball to the beginning of where you want the path to start. While dragging,
you will notice a bubble on the symbol. That bubble should snap into place on top of the
path.

13. Now click on frame 50 of the Graphic layer and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.

14. Click on Modify > Transform > Scale and change the size of the ball to something
larger or smaller.

15. Click the black selection arrow again and drag the ball to the other end of the path.
Again, the bubble should snap on top of the end of the path.

16. Click on frame 1 of the Graphic layer.

17. Right click on frame 1 of the Graphic layer and choose Create Classic Tween.

18. Press Enter to preview the motion tween.


19. If you want to view it without the motion guide showing, click the dot below the eye
on the Motion Guide layer to turn off the visibility of that layer.

Save as: yourname Motion Guide.fla

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