Free Transform Tool

[F5 Beta Tester]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the preview!!!! :-)

Ok, with the free transform tool...

Basically, it works the same way as any shape tween... make a circle, distort it, shape tween, and everything looks right... but sometimes if the shape tween is to detailed the tween won't look right. Get what i'm saying? It has nothing to do with the actual free transform tool... the tool is used to help you distort vector objects.... works great for custom text effects, etc.

Hope this helps...

/: Ashley Michaud, FlashOutlet.com

[F5 Beta Tester]

opps, sorry about that... ment to post a reply, I havn't posted a message on Flashkit for over 2 years... lol Been sooooo busy :-\

Orignal Topic:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=277148

/: Ashley Michaud, FlashOutlet.com

[Brent Turbo]

So it wouldn't be possible to, say, drop an object on frame 1, free transform it on frame 60, turn on motion tweening, press play, and watch it transform before your eyes?

I've heard that the free transform tool only works on broken apart objects, not on movie clips or graphics. Is this true? If so, then why are they even advertising it?

[F5 Beta Tester]

Here how it works.

The free transform tool has 5 options.


Tool Names:

Option1: Scale
Option2: Rotate & Skew
Option3: Free Transform
Option4: Distort
Option5: Envelope


What can you use the tool on?

Option1: Works on Symbols and Groups of vector.
Option2: Works on Symbols and Groups of vector.
Option3: Works on Symbols and Groups of vector.
Option4: Works on Groups of vector.
Option5: Works on Groups of vector.


Can you Motion Tween to move from a normal pic to a distorted one?

Option1: yes
Option2: yes
Option3: yes
Option4: no
Option5: no


Can you Shape Tween to move from a normal pic to a distorted one?

Option1: yes
Option2: yes
Option3: yes
Option4: yes
Option5: yes

Hope this helps everyone to understand. Let me know if your still unclear.


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[Peter G]

distort is what everyone is talking about for perspective. it only works on raw shapes, not groups or symbols....as the guy who broke his beta agreements said..."Option4: no "

[F5 Beta Tester]

Peter, are you refering to me when you said "guy who broke his beta agreement" ?

If so, I did not in anyway. The preview was approved by Macromedia. Also Macromedia made Flash MX public news, everyone locked into an NDA for Flash MX can now freely speak about anything, period. Anyways, thank you for your concern.

/: Ashley Michaud, http://www.FlashOutlet.com


[Edited by F5 Beta Tester on 03-08-2002 at 10:27 AM]

[biochem333]

Is mouse wheel scrolling possible with Flash MX scrollbars? Are there now mouse events related to mouse wheels?

[Kraken]

You still cannot scroll anything in flash with the mouse wheel. It's a major shortcoming with Flash and DHTML scrollers, I think.

[F5 Beta Tester]

biochem333,

You asked this question on this post... check it for my reply.

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=277148


Kind Regards,

/: Ashley Michaud, http://www.FlashOutlet.com