Flash animation

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How can flash developer make the small square block (bottom) that form a ring, been forced to move in a circle?

How to do animation makes many small squares move in circle (each square form a layer)?

I also saw graphics object move in 3D circle with zoom in / zoom out (each graphics form a layer), do people do it frame by frame using hand?

How can people do it so smoothly with frame by frame using hand??

flash script attached -
http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/circle.swf
http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/circle.fl

2

if they are doing it frame tweening they are silly, plus it is possible with tween easing

its ask 20 questions in one thread game

3

good point,

  1. math approch - if never need to be change, code can re-used
  2. frame by frame approch - need change everything from start if things/scene need to be change

is that true?

4

are there chance people is using 3rd party software to do the animation? I heard swift3D can do 3D stuff then export to flash frame by frame automatically
http://www.erain.com/products/swift3d/

also take a look at the animation of the circle (make from 7 square, each square move in circle perfectly) is there any third party tool people using and then export to flash (is it very possible?)

http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/circle.swf

otherwise, it would be too hard to do it frame by frame using hand isn’t it? (if you take a look at the Timeline) everything of the 7 box is do my hand!

http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/circle.swf

5

yup could be…

with AS you would be using flash API