Ok, I want to do this very very simple animation, but I cant get a thing right. I want vertical lines to start at the top of the screen and drop down, then when they get about 3 inches from the bottom of the screen, they turn to the right and go to the end of the movie. The only way I can do this successfully is to draw the 2 lines off the screen and then like 30 frames later, put them where I want them in place, and create a motion tween. Is that the best way to do it or is there something better?
doing what you said would be the easy way to do it (using tweening)
a bit harder but much better way to do it is to move the lines using actionscript, you change the y position at first, untill you reach the y you want, then you change the x position untill you reach the one you want.
if you have any experience with actionscript, then this should not be soo hard. if you don’t then i doubt you would be able to do it.
in case you can’t do it with actionscript, let me know and i will send you a sample fla of what i believe your trying to do