{"id":557,"date":"2013-02-04T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/?p=557"},"modified":"2013-02-04T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:25:51","slug":"the-invisible-woman-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediacomputing.org.uk\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Woman disappears!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we played about with fading symbols. \u00a0First we sourced and imported some isolated images of clothes and props – raincoat, hat, glasses, boots, newspaper. \u00a0In Flash we imported them to the Library and dragged them onto the stage.<\/p>\n

For most of the items we needed to convert the bitmap to a vector image in order to get rid of the white space surrounding it. \u00a0To do this go to the Modify menu and select Bitmap \/ Trace Bitmap. \u00a0Click away from the image then click on the white space you want to delete and press the backspace key. \u00a0Use the select arrow to select all of the remaining image then right-click and convert to symbol. \u00a0Remember to name your symbol – it’s good practice!<\/p>\n

Once you have done this for all your items, select them all and convert to a symbol.<\/p>\n

Now we need to animate our person a little using a couple of keyframes of a motion tween. \u00a0I made my person bounce across the stage a little as if they were walking by bending the motion tween guide line just slightly.<\/p>\n

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Finally we want to make our invisible people disappear. \u00a0On the final frame select the symbol then look at the Properties window. \u00a0Under Color Effect, change Style from None to Alpha. \u00a0Drag the slider down to 0. \u00a0Now when you view your animation your\u00a0invisible\u00a0person will disappear! \u00a0If you want your person to just disappear on the last bounce select the keyframe before, select your symbol and set the Alpha to 100 there.<\/p>\nSorry, either Adobe flash is not installed or you do not have it enabled<\/span>