Flash :: Flash CS4 Won't Let Me Use The Bone Tool

Bone Tool
Hi ive never done animation or flash and was told flash cs4 was as good as any so i got it but i think ive bitten off more than i can chew.

ultimatly i wan to make my little sports logo punch the ball out of his own hand propelling the ball forward.

i have started though just with stick figures trying to learn something to understand how it works. when adding bones i can sort of make it move by dragging the right leg as though it was stepping forward but it skews and drags the arm and body and doesnt look right, i only want the legs to move (walk) at this stage .

any step by stwp help or tutorials or advise would be great. cheers ash.

Bone Tool Problem
I'm not sure that I'm using it correctly. I've attached a video that demonstrates my problem.here

IK Bone Tool SEVERELY Lacking.
I'm sorry. The bone tool / IK setup will need to be greatly refined and enhanced before anyone can take it seriously for doing character animation. You're telling me I have to build my armature, then I can pose it around in place, make it a graphic and then animate its position on a timeline above my poses?? Bah, this is just not user friendly. Great for projects like they have in their demonstration videos, but that's mostly child's play. Just call it a linky tool instead, 'bones' makes me think it's capable of something more than it is.

Request list: ( really most features you'd find with a real IK chracter animation model )
* Position animation of the root.
* Pinning of bones. ( i.e. move a root around while feet stay pinned )
* Squash and stretch bones
* Arc tracker / editor would be awesome, I'm asking alot I know, but might as well reach for the sky eh?

Really, it would be awesome if Adobe could put out a really capable armature setup and not force animators to come up with workaround after workaround after workaround..... I'm waiting! ( I know Flash isn't animation focused software, but they're are just teasing me with this IK addition! )

Ik Bone Tool Control With Actionscript
i am stuck trying to use actionscript with the ik functions of cs4. What i am trying to do is in runtime move the tailjoint of a bone with the mouse towards a movieclip and once the tailjoint is over the movieclip it will move to a specific co-ordinate on the stage - creating a "snap to" effect of the exact central point of the movieclip.

the movieclip to snap to has the instance name 'angle_29'
the armature is called 'Armature_1'
the bone is called 'ikBoneName1'
and the movieclip the bone is on is called 'handle'

This is what i have so far but i could be way off already:

import fl.ik.*;

import flash.events.Event
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.geom.Point;
import flash.geom.Matrix;

import gs.*;

var tree:IKArmature = IKManager.getArmatureByName( "Armature_1" );
var bone:IKBone = tree.getBoneByName( "ikBoneName1" );

var handle:IKJoint = bone.tailJoint;
var pos:Point = handle.position;

angle_29.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,checkHitTest);

function checkHitTest(event:Event){
if(pos.hitTestObject(angle_29))
{
pos.x = 247.9;
pos.y = 275.3;
}
}

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Attach Code

import fl.ik.*;

import flash.events.Event
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.geom.Point;
import flash.geom.Matrix;

import gs.*;

var tree:IKArmature = IKManager.getArmatureByName( "Armature_1" );
var bone:IKBone = tree.getBoneByName( "ikBoneName1" );

var handle:IKJoint = bone.tailJoint;
var pos:Point = handle.position;

angle_29.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,checkHitTest);

function checkHitTest(event:Event){
if(pos.hitTestObject(angle_29))
{
pos.x = 247.9;
pos.y = 275.3;
}
}

IK Bone Tool And Movie Clips/tranform Bug?
In Flash, when you rotate a movieclip in the IDE, then release, the movieclip will often (80% of the time) lose .1-.2% of its scale. You can see the numbers changing in the transform window. It will continue to decrease the more you rotate/release, gradually shrinking.

For an IK armature (using the bone tool), which is pretty much all about rotations, this is a major issue. A simple animation of a human character waving can bring their forearm scale down from 100% to 92% by the end.

Aside from being visually noticeable (my arm is shrinking!) the Armature itself seems to react badly, losing joint connections, randomly displacing movieclips, and generally being unpredictable. I can't tell to what extent the Armature bugginess is directly caused by the gradual scale-creep -- but it's certainly not helping.

The Armature in the Bone Tool is uneditable- editing the position of a bone relative to another bone causes the other movieclips in the skeleton to start inching in random directions.

Any suggestions? Any help for either the movieclip scaling or Bone Tool problems would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[CS3] Throw Me A Bone...
Hi all,
I'm new to Flash and concerned that I may have dropped myself in the 'you-know-what' so if anybody could give me a little bit of advice I would be most grateful.

I have designed a navigation device which looks like a thermometer:

Basically I want the user to mouse over the thermometer, the mercury will move up and down and at predetermined points on the thermometer, images (with a description underneath) will appear. When the user moves away from the thermometer and clicks on the image, it will take the user to another page.

I'm screwed right?

Throw Me A Bone Here, People...
I'm trying to create an adjustable menubar like the one found in Outlook Express. The table would feature adjustable columns by dragging on the column spacer between column titles. When you click and drag a spacer, the column to the left would increase or decrease in width and the rest of the columns to the right would slide over.

I've only found adjustable windows so far. Once I get this, I'll post it for everyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

rob

How To Realize The Effect Of Bone?
How to realize the effect of bone?

Bone N00bs In Harmony
hey whats up pplz ? i have a small problem , and this is a highly recommended place to ask , so here goes :

i was learnin flash a few months ago , and desgigned a very basic , very humble personal site . i am now re-designing the site with new graphics , thanks to countless hours over at www.good-tutorials.com , and a will to succeed in learning photoshop skillz

now my old site had working page links in it , though they didnt smoothly transition from page to page , the links did work .; but i have lost the .fla files in a reformat , and i cannot remember the action script for page links .

if anyone could share the code for links (preferrably in the same window pane ) , i would appreciate it very much ;

thanks in advance , Dimmy From Kron

Scrollbar Connected To Stage-bone
I'm building a site that will use full-browser flash and I'm trying to add a custom scrollbar that is as high as the stage.height.

What I'm having trouble figuring out is how to get the scrollFaceHeight (the height of the Scroll face....) to change height in relation to the scrollbar height as well as the height of the content movie clip that will be scrolling.

Check out the attachment to make sense of this...

Thanks in advance

IK/Bone System And Graphic Symbols
I created an armature made up of separated graphic symbols. I am now trying to animate the armature, but I need the graphic symbols to be able to switch to other frames. When I click on the loop properties however, and select "Single Frame", the frame does not change. I believe it does change when you test the movie, but obviously it's difficult to know what you're doing if the change doesn't appear in your workspace. Is this a bug or what?

Brush Tool And Eraser Tool Troubles
i've been using flash for over a year and a half and i've NEVER came across this problem.

when i go inside a movieclip to edit it, it won't let me use the brush tool or eraser.

unless i draw a circle around the area i want brushed or erased.

what the crap did i do?

keep in mind that it works normal when i'm on the main timeline.

thanks for any help!

-nolen

Fill Tool - THE MOST ANNOYING TOOL EVER
I'm trying to draw stuff, but the fill tool never works when I want it to. I try to fill something in, so I mess with the options till it works, but sometimes.. I CANT FILL IT IN AT ALL! Soo, then I have to do it manually which is really annoying. I CANT WORK LIKE THIS! Is there any way to make it not stupid?

Flash MX Pen Tool
pen tool....

Does anybody know if it's possible to alter control handles independently of each other i.e - make Cusp nodes as they're called in Corel DRAW.

OR

is this itentionally left out of Flash by Macromedia so that we'll be forced to consider purchasing Freehand?

Using The Pen Tool (Flash-MX)
I am having some problems using the pen tool. I am attempting an object with several segments. The first few strokes work well, then I get the minus (-) sign when I try another segment. Often what I have already completed changes and relocates. Is there a limit to the number of strokes, or do I have to change a setting somewhere?

Thanks.

Pen Tool In Flash MX
Hi Everyone. I'm pretty new with Flash mx but i've been using programs like photoshop and illustrator for a while now.

My problem is with the pen tool in Flash. How do I get it to work like the pen tool in the othe programs?

Usually when I use the pen tool in.. say illustrator, I click the first point, then click and drag to create a nice curve, then I'll hold alt + click on the 2nd point to change the direction of the curve when I hit the next point. In Illustrator, when I hold alt and click I get a little arrow to show that i'm changing the direction of the curve. I can then keep adding more points, however in flash when I do this it closes the path. Anyone know why???

This makes it very difficult to use the pen tool for me in Flash.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong??? Thanks

Is Flash The Right Tool For The Job?
Hello. I'm the new guy on the block.

I want to post training seminars (recorded in .WMV) to our website. Flash seems like the right technology (good quality, small file size, common codec).

Following the tutorial example, Flash 8 Encoder was used to create a .FLV from a .WMV. Flash 8 was used to publish as video.

For the two flash videos I have created, they load to the local browser just fine (to 100%). But, they both hang 10-15% into the video and it is repeatable. It hangs if streamed from a server or from a local directory.

http://www.hsiventura.com/techsuppor...h/TuesEve.html

Is a 20-30 minute video too much for Flash? Is there a better tool for this?

Or, am I doing something wrong? Suggestions?

My computer:
- 2gb RAM
- Flash 8 Evaluation was installed, then removed. Purchased Flash 8 then installed.

Both .WMV files were created by Citrix's GoToMeeting web presentation software.

thanks,
randy

Flash SDK Tool Help
I have been using the flash SDK SEO tool. I have extracted the text and link from the swf's into html's. Do I upload these html's to the same server or what?

Is Flash The Right Tool
I have a project to do, I will be creating a web presentation with a combination of still photographs, short video clips and music, as well as titling and scrolling text.
I will need to zoom in and pan across the still photographs, mix and cross fade with short video clips, all to a sound track which needs to be timed presicely.
Is Flash the right tool for this?
Or do I need to be looking at a video editing tool that has outputs at web resolutions? Or possibly a slide presentation software like Pro Show Gold?
Any suggestions on the best software tools for this project would be appreciated. I was considering Premier Elements as a possibility. Goal is the best presentation quality at the smallest download size.

Edited: 03/15/2007 at 06:56:45 AM by soboyle2

Flash 8 - Web Vj Tool
i was playing around with the new video parts of flash 8 to see if it is worthy for installations and live videoproccessing.

u can have a look here http://www.nativesolutions.ch/flash_dev/

Using Flash As A Web Design Tool
I'm just starting to use flash technology as a web design tool. I'm wonering what some thoughts are about this article. The author says using flash as a web design tool for businesses is terrible due to the fact that search engines can't find them.

http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/884

Thanks for any help!

Flash Drawing Tool
http://www.imaginationatwork.com/imagine

I want to create something similar to this for a client of mine.

Does anyone have any idea how this was created?

I have made a basic drawing tool that allows you to draw lines and change the colour/size. However, I have absolutely no idea how you get the server to record what someone has drawn and then play it back.

Does anyone have any ideas? Are there any relevant tutorials, source code or text books I can look at?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Many thanks for your time,
Neil

Flash Authoring Tool
Hi everyone

I'm starting to learn flash and was wondering about a good authoring tool.
Flash MX would be an obvious choice, but besides being expensive i've been told it's difficult to get started with it.
My purpose is to use flash to build websites with movies and lots of interactive elements, the usual i guess.
So in your opinion, what would be a good tool, that's powerful enough to do this, fairly easy to start using and if possible not too expensive? Talk about wanting it all, huh?

Thanks

Tool-tip Text For Flash...
Hi all,

Can anybody tell me how I can do standard tool-tip text in actionscript?

Cheers.

HTML Tool For Flash
Hi,

We all know that Flash only accepts certain kinds of HTML tags - a few. Is there an HTML Tool out there, the type of WYSIWYG, where we can write the HTML for flash, but that automatically only accepts the Flash HTML tags?

Kind regards,

Rigel_Kent

What Flash Tool Should I Get To Start?
Yeah i'm really new at Flash and i'm just wondering what program should i get to start? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Flash As A Web Development Tool.
Am I right in thinking that not many people currently use Flash solely as the source for developing sites?

Although Flash has all the capabilities for a great development tool – Database integration, XML support etc. I hardly ever come across a site that has been constructed just with Flash.

I know there are issues around search engine recognition, but am I barking up the wrong tree in believing that my studying the application will enable me to construct complete sites with the app. or is it more a question of Flash being used as maybe the animated component of a site constructed by other means?

Any views please.

Is It Just Me Or Is The Pen Tool In Flash The WORST?
I don't know if I am missing something or just using it completly wrong, but the pen tool in flash 8 (or any version for that matter) is awful.

I have no control over it at. The easiest shapes take forever. I am trying to make a football so I can animate it and I am ready to pull my hair out. Trying to click on the point you want is like impossible. If I start to path something out then stop to move the canvas I can't reconnect the path again. I have to start over? It randomly puts in new anchor poits when I try to edit it. The "Help" is no help.

Does anyone have any suggestions or the same frustrations??

Flash Developer Tool
Hi there,

My friend has asked me to develop for him an interactive Website in Flash.

I've never developed in ActionScript before but have a few years programming experience behind me so it shouldn't be a problem.

Before I purchase a licence I want to make sure I am using the correct product for the job so is Adobe Flash Pro CS3 Win the tool I should be using for this or are there cheaper alternatives?

Thanks in advance.

Any Recommendations For A Flash CMS Tool?
I am looking at possible solutions to allow my client to edit the all flash site we are creating for them.

I have looked at several flash CMS tools, but cannot decide which would be best, if any, for this project.

It is a large site with many different pages, all of which will have different layouts/looks. I am leaning towards fcmsPro, just because it writes to a mySQL database, as opposed to XML.

Does anyone have any thoughts, recommendations, warnings on flash CMS technologies? I Would greatly appreciate any input. Thanks!

Best Flash Export Tool?
I need to make some stand-alone *.exe projector files from Flash8 as well as do some other things to my projector files (like hide the menu bar, etc...). I have heard of two products: MDM Zinc and FlashJester's Jugglor. Are there any other programs out there?

Does anyone have any recommendations concerning said type of programs? Various product reps need not reply, I would like to get an end user's opinion.

Thanks,

-john

Flash Crashing When Using Pen Tool
Hi,
I've been using the pen tool in flash to trace over a photograph and flash keeps crashing and closes the application. I can reproduce this problem instantly within 3 clicks of the pen tool over and over again.

The only solution I have found for this problem is to uninstall and then reinstall Flash which of course is not ideal and is only temporary as it only works well for another few days before it starts crashing again.

I've tried a reinstall of my entire computer and the problem still reoccurred. My PC is Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Flash Pro 8.0.

Has anyone else come across this problem and does anyone have a solution?

Thanks for your help

Flash To Video (not Flv) Tool
Hi
Im looking for a good tool to convert swf to video files.
I would prefere it to be very professional and very customizable.
Anyone have any recomendations?

Thanks in advance,

Gibbah

Is Flash The Correct Tool To Use?
Hi,

I'm looking for advice on whether Flash will do what I need. (I've never used Flash) In particular:

- Will Flash provide the following functionality below?
- Would it be the preferred tool?
- What functionality within Flash would I use?
- Would I need to use ActionScript?

My "specs" are: I'm going to build a website where a user will be able to select an image (I've got heaps of jpg's), and then crop it to the portion they want. I want it to be simple and easy to use.

The cropping will be simple - only able to drag out a rectangle, and then move the rectangle around on the image.

Then they will click "ok" (or something) and my site will save the cropped image.

Preferably, I would prefer to save just the boundries and position values of the rectangle (have a mysql db for that). Then allow the user to log back in and I would show them the original image with their rectangle in the cropped position, and they could continue to make changes, and when satisfied, click "save" (or something).

Am I barking up the right tree - ie is Flash the right tree?

Thanks for your advice,
Josh

Pen Tool In The ADOBE FLASH
I used to drew the picture in the flash .Now its version becomed to 9.0,but the "pen tool" has not any changed. The "pen tool" in the Photoshop is very nice ,easily,useful and comfortable. I can draw any curse by it.
Why the "pen tool " in flash is not good enough ?It still a trouble.

Flash Maginfication Tool
Hi,

Is there a way in which Flash can use a magnification for the entire site including text as well as the images. The only tutorial that I can find is for images only but I'd like the user to use it for use on the whole page. Can anyone help with suggestion please?

Thanks,

Martin

Flash Circle Tool Help
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/printing/test.ZIP
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/printing/test.swf
Heres a direct link to the swf
Notice how the circle wobbles a bit.

Have a look at my test files why does a perfect circle woble when its rotated.
How do you fix this error?
I need a circle built 2000x2000 and to zoom in and out when its rotating. The circle cannot wobble when it rotates.

Ive tried timeline tweens and code to make it rotate and it still wobbles eaither way.

Any help would be apreciated?

Flash Crop Tool
I'm trying to get this flash crop tool to work:

http://flashrocket.worldoptimizer.co...-released-lgpl

I was hoping someone could help me get it up and running.

I've copied these files to my localhost folder:

process.php
class.cropcanvas.php
test.jpeg
and cropsave.swf

In the cropsave.fla file I changed the address of the process.php from the url to just "process.php";

The test image appears and then once I crop it the php file loads and then nothing - just a blank screen. If I leave the original php file it shows the test image from the croptool website.

Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this little tool is exactly what I need.
Alteratively does anyone know of any similar resize and crop tools?

Drawing Tool In Flash
hi all,

can someone plz post a tutorial or link from where i can learn to make a drawing application in flash, in which i can draw a line and rectangle at runtime and also can change their size. or is there any free component for that? thanks for any support.

Flash Upload Tool
Hi guys,

I am trying to create a file upload tool in flash like the one in:

http://playmygame.com/editor.php?id_game=1

Anyone knows how it's done?

Flash Development Tool
Hey all,
i am thinking about using a flash development software and i am wandering what is the difference between these three:
1. Flex
2. FDT
3. Flash Devloper

I know that flash developer only works in pc but i heard it has some better features over fdt. (i use both mac and pc but prefer mac) All i know about flex is that it is for Rich application development. I also looked up the prices on these and they are expensive. Do you developers buy these or download from bit torrent?

Thanks, in advance

Marquee Tool In Flash
Hi,

Is there any tool in Flash (Marquee tool in photoshop)that let select and then you can copy that.

Thanks

Need Editing Tool For Flash
This may be a lost cause but I am looking for a tool or utility that can edit a flash file. I am totally new to flash. I have downloaded a free flash website template and want to cusomize it. I cannot afford macromedia flash right now.

How can I edit these files? Thanks. ProDev, MS Access Applications
Visit me at ==> http://www.prodev.us

May God bless you beyond your imagination!!!

Flash 8 Elestic Tool
hey i dont know if i downloaded or i dont remeber

it use to be in window panel

Help 3rd Party Tool For Flash 7...
I'm looking for a tool that allows flash 7 files to save data in the hard disk, like "FLAWRITE", from flashtool.de, but it HAS to work with flash 7.

Flash Authoring Tool(s)
Hi:

I am looking for some advice on cost-effective authoring tools that will produce flash slideshows and movies for use in web pages. I am currently using a very basic tool called "Firestarter" by Coffee Cup software. It's a pretty good application but somewhat limited.

Also, I develop heavily in PHP so applications that work well with PHP would be desireable.

Specifically, what I would like to do is:

- Create a slideshow/movie which has a caption field at the bottom and will allow separate html links from each image.

- Create a slideshow/movie built on the fly from a directory full of pictures such that if the contents of the folder changes, the slideshow will update without having to re-build it in the authoring tool.

- Create a slideshow with a scrolling thumbnail index which allows the user to select a picture to view in the larger window

What do people suggest for a good, reliable tool.

Thanks

Is Flash The Correct Tool?
Hi,

I'm looking for advice on whether Flash will do what I need. (I've never used Flash) In particular:

- Will Flash provide the following functionality below?
- Would it be the preferred tool?
- What functionality within Flash would I use?
- Would I need to use ActionScript?

My "specs" are: I'm going to build a website where a user will be able to select an image (I've got heaps of jpg's), and then crop it to the portion they want. I want it to be simple and easy to use.

The cropping will be simple - only able to drag out a rectangle, resize it, and move the rectangle around on the image.

Then they will click "ok" (or something) and my site will save the cropped image.

Preferably, I want to save just the boundries and position values of the rectangle (have a mysql db for that). Then allow the user to log back in and I would show them the original image with their rectangle in the cropped position, and they could continue to make changes, and when satisfied, click "save" (or something), and at that point save the cropped image.

Am I barking up the right tree - ie is Flash the right tree?

Thanks for your advice,
Josh