3 Replies Latest reply: Nov 7, 2014 10:19 AM by Ned Murphy

Symbol graphic won't move in main timeline?

TheyCallMeBing Nov 5, 2014 9:18 PM

(I just bought Flash and am a beginner please forgive me.)

I've made a symbol, a graphic, of a character's eyes blinking a few times, shifting position, then blinking and moving back. It moves fine and looks okay in the symbol's timeline, but when I play it in the main timeline, the blinking works but it refuses to shift places, it just bounces back and forth. I tried making it a motion and classic tween, (instead of having it move through several keyframes as I started with.) Does anyone know why this may be happening? Thanks everyone.

1. Re: Symbol graphic won't move in main timeline?

Ned Murphy Nov 6, 2014 4:34 AM (in response to TheyCallMeBing)

If you are trying to tween a raw drawn graphic (not a symbol from the library) that might be the problem. In order to do a motion tween you need to be using a symbol... a graphic, movieclip, or sprite symbol.
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2. Re: Symbol graphic won't move in main timeline?

TheyCallMeBing Nov 7, 2014 9:32 AM (in response to Ned Murphy)

I have made the drawing a graphic symbol in the library. I tried converting it to a movie clip to see if that would change anything. Nothing.
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3. Re: Symbol graphic won't move in main timeline?

Ned Murphy Nov 7, 2014 10:19 AM (in response to TheyCallMeBing)

The object that you are trying to tween needs to be a symbol. You mentioned doing the animation within the graphic's timeline. YOu would need to be doing the movement animation in a parent timeline.
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