Flash 'growing' objects

safeastinkywinky · 24 Oct 2007 at 14:47

Does anyone know how to make a flash object such as a line grow from say a 10pixel width to a 100pixel width (Same height) over a period of time i.e. five seconds or so?

I'm new to flash (not used it for two years and forgot most of what I learnt) and have CS3.

unknowndomain · 24 Oct 2007 at 15:04

So assuming your using 12fps, that means 5 seconds is 60 frames.

Create a keyframe on frame 1 and draw a line.
Right click the keyframe and make it a motion tween
Create a new keyframe on 61.
Edit the line ow you like
When you play it back it should grow.

safeastinkywinky · 24 Oct 2007 at 15:23

How do I add a motion tween? It's not one of the right click options

I'm sure I knew how to do this in MX2004!

Do I need to right click and paste motion first, my drawn line dissapears then! Or should the line be a movie with named instance first?

Thanks again!

safeastinkywinky · 25 Oct 2007 at 14:20

Got it now, I'm trying to animate lines to show a line graph 'growing' from the vortext to the end of the x axis, sloping up and down is at goes.

Is it best to repeat that motion for each 'segment' of the line graph using layers?