Move Effect

[MelJacks]

I am trying to create a small swish movie for a real estate company. It is almost complete. Part of the movie involves a golf ball landing on the green. I am having a hard time figuring out how to make the ball roll in a straight line, instead of curving. Can anyone help me?

The movie can be found at http://www.palmerrealestate.com/waterwood.htm

[Dead Rabbit]

Try changing the Motion At Path option on the Move effect from Smooth to Sharp. Should help.

[MelJacks]

It is on sharp. My properties are:

lasts 20 frames
Continue from previous effect
Move to x (125)
Path = Sharp
Everything else unchanged

Thanks for the input. Do you have anymore suggestions?

[Dead Rabbit]

Post the .swi so we can take a look. If it won't fit here, post it to your server, then put a link to it here.

[MelJacks]

It can be found at http://www.palmerrealestate.com/waterwood.swi.

Thank you for your help!

[Lys12]

hi,

the path of the place actions should have bee set to sharp as well.

i played around with the file, to make the ball fall in a hole instead of fade out. an approach that needs some tweaking. in case you like it, copy the objects in the attached swi and paste them inside your file.

[MelJacks]

Thank you so much for your help. I figured it was probably something that simple. I couldn't open your file because you must most likely use Swishmax, whereas I have Swish 2.0. I did work on my ball dropping and hope it does look a little better. I am still kind of a newbie to this stuff. I haven't used it in this much detail before.

Again, thank you so much for your help.

[Lys12]

sorry, the file was saved in swishmax... here it is in swish 2 format. i put the clouds in a sprite and tweaked the move effect for a smoother transition - also the bird feels better when it's inside a sprite

maybe it helps a bit...

http://www.msnrd.de/waterwood1a.swi