drawing a rectangle from a dot..

hi everyone, this is my first post here

i'm trying to make a movie which is about drawing a rectangle starting from a dot. this is what i did, and how i failed:

i started with a line at lower right corner (height:0, width:1) then i created a tween from it. i managed to draw the line from right corner to the left corner at bottom but when i try to go up now with a new layer, i have to make (i think) height: 300px width:0. and when i do that, the line becomes huge in both width and height.

am i thinking all wrong? i'm sure there is a better way, if there is not, can you help me in turning my drawing to up there? thanks

kale

Welcome to Flashkit Kale. :)

One way to do would be to draw the rectangle to start off with, then add a frame and erase a little, not too much though, then add another frame and erase a little more, then just keep doing this until the rectangle has totally gone. You'll have a line of keyframes, select them all and 'right-click' and choose 'reverse frames'.

Now when you play it back it looks like it is being drawn, and not erased as you originally did it. ;)

thank you,
i'll definately try that

kale

Draw your outline..and use masking to 'fake' like it is being drawn...just tween your mask to reveal your outline...one side at a time. :)

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