Creating Advanced Motion Presets in Flash with JSFL
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Creating Advanced Motion Presets in Flash with JSFL

on Oct 8th 2010 with 1 comment
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Flash
  • Screencast duration: 60 mins
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
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During this screencast we’re going to look at using Flash’s JSFL scripting language, taking a complex set of tweens and turning them into a reusable motion preset.

What’s Covered?

Brief Intro to JSFL

Access the Help Documents

  • Downloading a PDF

The New Motion Object API

Copying Motion XML from a Tween

  • Understanding the XML data

Building the Script

  • Accessing a selection
  • Breaking apart text
  • Creating movie clips, manipulating the library & manipulating frames
  • Adjusting the tween XML
  • Applying the tween(s)

Improving the Script

  • Adding conditionals, adding user feedback & adding a dialog

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Justin Putney is a freelance designer, developer, and consultant and produces animations for his studio, Ajar Productions. Justin has created and released dozens of Flash extensions and a handful of scripts for other Adobe applications. Justin is the co-author of Animation with Scripting for Flash Professional CS5 Studio Techniques. His animation work, tutorials, and extensions can be found on the Ajar Productions blog (http://blog.ajarproductions.com), and his portfolio is available at http://putney.ajarproductions.com.  

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  1. Mohamed says:
    October 8, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks :)

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