Shape Tweens

[ambolina]

Hi there,

I know you can use shape hints to modify how Flash tweens your shape, but I was shown a way where you can cut a tiny hole in your original shape that guides how Flash does the interpolation.

In my case I'm just tweening a circle into the number 6 and I want to put a little hole where the hole on the 6 is and in one other spot to make the shape tween nicer. I thought I just used the erase tool, but one, the smallest it erases is still way to visible plus it's not working aside from that.

Does anybody know the technique I'm talking about? I know it's simple, I was just dumb and forgot to write down the steps.

thanks!

[WiLLiaM the BlooDy]

I have no idea what you`re talking about, kind of curious if someone else does though, but you could always just keyframe your animation into a six, not a big animation so it shouldn`t take you long and it will look as nice and exactly like you want. =)

[ambolina]

I remembered how to do it.
You go to the first frame of the shape w/ the shape tween attached to it, use the square or circle tool and "cut" a small hole into the shape by drawing a circle, then deleting it. You put the hole in the various places you'd like to control the tween a little bit, like the hole in the #6 for instance. But if you make your "cut" too tiny, it will get overlooked by flash and keep tweening like it would were the cut not there.