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How do I play symbols in my scene?

Aug 4, 2012 7:55 AM

Hey, I started working on a new animation and am experimenting and teaching myself the whole interface for animating, learning new tricks , etc. I recently made a little movieclip symbol where a garage gets bigger and bigger to create a zoom in effect, I know to do the whole symbol editing by double clicking on the symbol and working from within, but I now want to take this and use it in my scene1 stage. The problem is, I'm left only with the beginning image after I converted the image into a symbol. How in the world do I get the thing to play on my stage without opening up the symbol menu? I have 19 layers and am trying to get a whole bunch of things together, my animation is planned at 5 minutes in length so there is lots to do. I prefer to hand draw things, I'm not going to settle for family guy style animation if you know what I mean...

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1. Ned Murphy,

Aug 4, 2012 9:51 AM in reply to CorbinWells

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If you created the object as a movieclip symbol, you will only see the first frame of it until you run the file. If you want to be able to scrub the timeline to see it animating then you need to create it as a graphic symbol and spread it along the timeline for the number of frames that it has for its internal animation.

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2. CorbinWells,

Aug 4, 2012 10:27 AM in reply to Ned Murphy

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Alright,I can see the keyframes as I have made them while in symbol edit mode. But on the main timeline I only see the first drawing, or rather, the instance I believe it's called. How would i transfer the now graphic symbol animation created in symbol edit to the main timeline to play while I work on building into the animation? I am not sure what you mean by spreading it along the timeline.

Nevermind, thanks for the idea, I just turned the shape I converted into a graphic symbol into a motion tween. I went into symbol edit and began to create the animation. Once I previewed the work I did in symbol edit, the shape began to play as desired on the main stage as a motion tween, thanks.

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3. CorbinWells,

Aug 4, 2012 12:10 PM in reply to CorbinWells

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Um...how do I stop the graphic from looping? =D

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4. kglad,

Aug 4, 2012 12:49 PM in reply to CorbinWells

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create a keyframe in its last frame and add:

stop();

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