Fireworks mx Tour: GIF animation

GIF animation has always been the strength of fireworks, convenient, fast, freedom is the characteristics of fireworks. Although there are other excellent animation tools, such as Flash, such as ImageReady. But in making GIF animations, I have always recommended fireworks, not other software, not even the use of flash to make GIF.

The main role of Flash in the production of a vector swf animation, gif animation is a piece of the flash of the chicken, hair color number, large file volume, text is not clear is the biggest problem flash production gif.

As for some of the other fool-made GIF software, I do not have to say, used, and do not want to use. Because the use of those template manufacturing tools will only limit the human mind, and in the production of some animated logo, creativity has always been a very important factor.

The absolute freedom of fireworks provides the best stage for creative play; the symbolic symbol concept introduced from Flash can help us to make some special effects easily, and use frame time frames to control the process of animation, consistent with our usual habits, This is different from the ImageReady layer concept.

Anyway Fireworks animated GIF In fact in the FW4 has tended to perfect, do not know what fwmx will progress.

First try symbol. Create a new file, and then randomly draw an irregular polygon, press the F8 on the keyboard, defined as a symbol (graphic).

As you can see, the pop-up dialog box is exactly the same as the FW4. Name the symbol graphic (this is to distinguish it from the following symbol). The symbol already appears in the library panel.

Okay, now that the actors are in place, what's the show for? How about a stealth?

Select the graphic in the canvas, Ctrl+shift+d, clone a new symbol, and set the cloned symbol transparency to 0%. Then select the two symbol at the same time, Modify>symbol>tween vinstances in the menu bar (you can also press the shortcut key directly).

Then pop up a dialog box that is the same as FW4, use the default value, and remember to tick the check box below the number. Ok,graphic students of the stealth method has been practiced, press the edit area left under the play key preview results bar.

From the above process, FWMX is not much improved relative to FW4, symbol (graphic) function, symbol (animation) is in fact the same. Only symbol (button) at the time of editing an import a button, so it is convenient to direct the default library file in the button file import.

Perhaps the fw4 has been very good, fwmx in the animation auxiliary almost can say no progress. Remember that not long ago in the forum to see someone say fw4 animation motion line can do curve movement, but I did not try to succeed, but this function is really we would like to get, unfortunately FWMX has not been able to support.

Another feature that you would like to get is that the symbol (or object) is attached to the path movement, a bit like the same function in Flash. If true, FW animation will be a new step.

It is time to leave these ideas to the next version of FW. Perhaps the official version can be realized, oh, after all, we now see only the internal beta.

All right, let's end with an animated GIF and finish today's journey!