Hi - I'm trying to creat the effect of grass moving in the breeze - just a very subtle effect. I've tried importing the attached image, breaking it apart, and then using the envelope transformation tool, but I'm running into problems. It just doesn't tween right - it seems to keep the image from the last keyframe as well as show the transformed version on the next keyframe.
What is the best way to go about this? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
post the FLA so i can see what's happening (if you're using Flash 8, save it down to MX04 before posting)
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ok... i ended up creating this for you instead.... hopefully this will help you. It just duplicates a swaying blade of grass randomly across the stage with random _height, _width & movement.... test it a few times, it will always be different.
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Hey, Thank you very much for posting that!! I really appreciate you taking the time to look at it. What was I doing wrong though? I know you created the grass yourself. I thought that I would just be able to use the graphic that I imported. Could you let me know, I'd really like to understand that.
you're graphic was low res... it was all pixelated and what not.. so i just created the blades from scratch. if you're going to import things to use, import them at a higher resolution, or ideally, import vector artwork (since flash is a vector based program). All i did was create a few blades, and motion tween them rocking back and forth (i.e. swaying) you could probably do the same with your grass, you just need to strip it down to JUST the grass.. try using Fireworks to create the grass shape... and importing that to Flash.... you can use the Trace Bitmap feature to strip out the backgrounds, etc
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madzigian, I've tried copying this into flash CS4, but I'm getting this error: "1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Void." (Line 18)
which prevents it from duplicating the blades. Do you know what can be done to fix it?
Well, looking at the main time line and the actions on it, you see that the function "dupe" returns Void, or nothing. And surprise surprise, this happens on Line 18 as the error message says. I googled "CS4 void 1046 error", although I didn't really have to. See for yourself.
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