Use Flash MX to make alcohol lamp flame animation

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Alcohol lamp is a commonly used experimental equipment in middle school, so it is widely used in the experiments of reasonable, chemistry and health. Especially in the production of science and education, the teaching of various subjects, all involved in heating experiments, in order to make alcohol lamp heating process lifelike, lack of alcohol lamp flame animation. The following is a specific description of the Flash MX in the production process of alcohol lamp flame Animation:

first, the production of alcohol lamp flames in the flame

Press Ctrl+f8, and in the Create New Symbol dialog box that pops up, set name to flame animation, behavior to movie clips, and click OK to enter the component's editing window.

Double-click the name of the Layer 1 layer to change the layer name to Medium flame. Click the Pencil Tool button on the Drawing toolbar, in the options area below the toolbar, set pencil mode to ink, draw the graphic shown in Figure 1 on the stage, fill the shape with brown and remove the border line, which represents the flame's flare pattern.

second, the production of alcohol lamp flame Nei

Select the graphic shown in Figure 1, hold down the CTRL key, drag the mouse to the right, copy the same shape, fill it with light brown, and use the Freeform tool on the Drawing toolbar to shrink the graphic to represent the flame's Nei graphic, as shown in Figure 2.

Select the Nei graphic, press ctrl+x to cut it, create a new layer on the "flame" layer, set the layer name to "Nei", press the CTRL+SHIFT+V key to paste the cut graphic in place, and drag the graphic to the middle flame graphic, as shown in Figure 3. When finished, lock the "Nei" and "flame" layers.

third, the production of alcohol lamp Wei animation

Create a new layer under the "Flame" layer, set the layer name to "Wei", and continue using the pencil tool to draw a Wei graphic. In the Color mixer panel, set the fill style to linear. Create a brown-white gradient and fill this gradient for the graphic, using the Fill warp tool on the Drawing toolbar, adjust the orientation and size of the fill color, and remove the border of the shape, drawing the Wei figure of the flame as shown in Fig. 4.


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Four, the production of alcohol lamp flame animation

On the 5th and 10th frames of the "Nei", "Flame", "Wei" layers, press F6 to create a new keyframe, and use the Arrow tool on the Show Diagram toolbar to change the shape of the flames in the 5th and 10th frames, as shown in Figure 5.

Right-click on frame 1th of the "Nei" Layer, pop-up shortcut menu, select "Copy Frame" command, copy the contents of the frame, right-click on the 15th frame of the layer, pop-up shortcut menu, select the paste Frame command, so that the frame and frame 1th of the same content.

Using the same method, copy the 1th frame of the "flame", "Wei" layer to frame 15th of the respective layer. Click 1th, 5th, and 10th frames of the Nei layer, and on the properties panel, set tween to shape gradient, and create a shape gradient animation. In the same way, create a shape gradient animation in the "Flame", "Wei" layer, and the timeline as shown in Figure 6. So far, the alcohol lamp flame animation production finished.



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