Rookie flash: I stole the flash footage.

Speaking of Flash, believe that our readers no one does not know, but to really make a good work can be difficult. Often on the internet to see those masters of the production of wonderful works, are eager to themselves as they can enter the ranks of the flash.

In fact, we can fully play "copycat", the master produced animation analysis, understanding of the author and design ideas. But most of what we get is SWF files, not FLA source files, which greatly affect the pace of further learning. But it does not matter, because this article is to work with you to uncover the SWF file dazzling appearance, so that you can not only see enough, but also to use enough.

　　One, decomposition to obtain material

A wonderful animation, inseparable from the support of good materials. So how can we "deprive" of the wonderful material in the SWF file made by others? This is inseparable from the SwF browser support.

With the SWF Browser installed, double-click the shortcut set up on your desktop to start the program. The SWF browser interface is concise, with a directory record like a resource manager on the left, and most of the area on the right to play preview Flash animations.

In the Left directory tree, browse to the folder where the SWF file you want to explode, and then select the specific SWF file that you want to decompose in the file, so you can see the file when you preview the difference. If we want to take a look at the SWF file first, it's simple to click on the black triangle "play" button at the top of the vertical toolbar in the middle of the main interface, so that the selected animation starts playing on the right (Figure 1).

It's starting to decompose.

Hey, really good, through just the appreciation of the discovery that there are a lot of good pictures and dubbing, hurriedly they accounted for it. Click the SWF analysis state above the main interface: Idle-click here to analyze the current movie, or press the shortcut key "Ctrl+p" to decompose the current movie.

The time to decompose is slightly different depending on the size of the SWF file to be decomposed; a few moments later, a list of items is added to the right of the program's main interface (Figure 2), which includes sound events, sound streams, graphics, movie clips, and SWF structures. For example, if we want to save a music file, then just click on the file to be extracted in the sound event, which will automatically pop up the Save As dialog box, set a saved location and file name, so you can easily extract this part of the sound.

To extract the sound.

Tip: The extraction of other materials is the same, but if the extraction is a picture, then there will be a picture preview window. In addition, when saving is no longer a click to save, but you need to click the Save Picture button to (as Figure 3).

The picture is not spared

　　Second, wonderful to take exe animation material

SwF Browser makes it easy to get the footage from the SWF file, but now some of the animations are made into EXE files so it can't be done. This time we need to use the help of Swifty Xena Pro.

Swifty Xena Pro is a very compact, easy-to-use tool. After running the software, we found that the main interface of the software was simple (Figure 4), and now let's see how it works.

Parsing exe format

Click on the "Extract Files" button, in the pop-up window to select the EXE format to analyze the animation, selected will soon pop up a dialog box, prompting conversion success (see Figure 5). This time we return to the transformation of the EXE format animation directory, found in the folder at the same time the creation of a SWF file, play when its content and before the conversion of the EXE file is the same. Now that we have the SWF file, we can use the SwF browser to further decompose and get the footage.

Out of a need for a file

　　Third, the separation layer of good helper

In the above mentioned two software decomposition process, we all ignore the fact that for the animation of multiple layers and a layer of decomposition is the same, so we can not understand the structure of the middle of the animation, we do not know what layer animation is composed of. Under such circumstances, Swifty Zeus was born with the application.

Swifty Zeus is a green software that runs its execution file Zeus.exe open software (Figure 6) and clicks the Open SWF File button on the toolbar to select the SWF animation to detach.

Detach SWF

When selected, the program automatically decomposes the file and displays the results (Figure 7). For example, the author of the decomposition of this animation includes 108 layers, if we want to save these layers only need to click the "extrace layers" command on the toolbar, this will pop up a select Save Location window, and then click the "OK" button to start automatic separation, separation, we enter the Save window, You will find that each of these layers is saved as a SWF file.

Slowly analyze

　　Four, Peeping Flash script

Successful animation should be said to be inseparable from action script support. It can be said that because of the action Script, Flash animation has a strong interactivity. Can master the action script becomes rookie and the customer's watershed, if we can peek into the animation of the master made the application of the script, then not to their own level of improvement of great benefits!

This is the use of another software action Script Viewer, run the software, press F3 pop-up selection File window, that is to see the script file animation added, add in after the default activation is the "Frames" label, which shows all the frames in the animation, Since this is not the focus of our presentation, interested readers can study it from their own.

Now we switch to the "actionscripts" tab, the program has already been added to the animation analysis, all contains script frames have been all shown, we only south to select the frame, the window below the detailed script content (see Figure 8). If you want to save these scripts and study them slowly, just select them and press the "F9" key so that the script is saved on the Clipboard, so we can open any word processing tool to paste the contents of the Clipboard.

See, it's all here.

　　tip: in the Action Script Viewer 4.0 tool, support the latest version of Flash 2004 produced by the animation.

　　V. Modify the animation link

The following to introduce to you, it can be said that the "copycat" played to the extreme. We know that a lot of flash files contain URL links, and it is not possible to modify the links saved as SWF files by the usual means. However, with the URL Action Editor, we can have the URL link inside the arbitrary changes.

Run Url Action Editor, press the F3 on the keyboard to select the animated file to modify the link in the pop-up window, the same program automatically analyzes the structure of the file and displays the URL link in the URL Action tab as a list in the file (Figure 9), click Edit selected action button to open the Modify window, select the URL contained in "Date", click Make it editable, then enter the URL you want to modify, and then click the "Close" button to return to the main screen. And we just need to click the Save button on the toolbar to save the modified animation again.

Modify Link

　　tip: switch to the "Timelines" tab, where we can see all the frames, on the left to select a frame, so on the right side of the frame to show the detailed color collocation, so we can also use the software to learn the colors of the master works of the match it!

It's easy to get these addresses.

Well, through the above five tools, I believe you will be able to achieve the SWF file face, but do not forget to involve the copyright can not be modified, then the police will not blame me uncle arrested Yo.