I’m brand new at Flash and I’m trying to tween two shapes (.png files I converted to symbols) and it just won’t do it! 
Can someone please tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong? I’ve broken them apart until it says they’re shapes and replaced the first symbol with the next one on the keyframe it will tween to. It won’t tween though.
Thanks for the help! :hangover:
I’m not sure if tweening bitmaps will give a good result but just for you to know you can only tween lines and fills! So break them apart until you have plain fills! No symbols or groups allowed!
your not trying to tween symbols are you? Shape tweening only works on simple lines and fills, and motion tweening only works on symbols 
Okay, thanks for the heads up! Does anyone know another good way to make an animation and then make(import) it into a flash movie? There’s an effect I’m after that I saw on another website. It’s in the intro movie of www.webbasis.com . There is an animation of flowing lines that dissolve into a still picture. I want to make an animation similar and keep it looping in a box on my webpage. The website was designed by 2advanced Studios, www.2advanced.com/flashindex.htm . Any more help in this matter is appreciated!
what intro? all i got was a “nothing to see here” page 
Doh!:stunned:
I didn’t even check before I wrote down the link. Go to www.2advanced.com/flashindex.htm and look at his portfolio. About all the way down is the link for webbasis. It must just be on his site. And how does one make the flickering?
im assuming you mean the flickering of the globe? how it fades in and out? That just involves either using AS to change the _alpha up and down or making a looping MC that uses a tween to fade in and out whichever way you feel more comfortable with… im not sure what you mean about the flowing lines, but im guessing its the optical illusion they’ve created? Dont know about AS, but you could use a MC that has some lines zoom in, and just muck around with different layers morphing into a similiar shape as the lines “merge” with them, then have the similiar shape fade out as the image fades in… heh, if you get me?
Again, thanks for the advice. As far as flickering goes, I just meant ANY text flickering. And the animation I was talking about was this…
im pretty sure the easiest way to do that at your level would be to have 2 lines tween across the page, then have the shape of the image like, a rectangle for example, that tweens out into its full size (so it starts out with the width/height set to 5,5, then as the lines pass across it it tweens out to its enlarged height/width) and as it reachs almost at the maximum width/height, a new tween of that shape converted to a symbol (on a new layer) fades out as the picture (turned into a symbol) fades in on yet another layer
note: The little rectangle is only visible for the frames from when the lines hit it to when it the picture finishes fading in.
The lines disappear as they hit the rectangle.
Hopefully you get what i mean… Ill see if i get a chance to do up a sort of example, but im at tech uni atm so might be busy…
(note the whole thing is being done with MC’s/Tweens, someone might be able to show u a good way to do it with AS, but i dont think either of us are at that level yet 
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Thanks Yoshi for all the assistance! I think I might need to take a class in AS. My ideas are always grander than my skill level! :sigh:
nah you could do it with tweens alone just needs some fidling to get right, would be a bit less intensive to use AS for some of the MC’s but if its beyond your scope, dont stress, thats why theres that ability to create the effect without mucking with script
give it a go with tweens, i dont mind helping you through it but i’ve only got 2 days before i go on holidays where my free time will be used up, so sooner you start more i can help
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