Can LiveMotion do shape tweens? if so how? 2

[bradt]

Can LiveMotion do shape tweens? If so how?
Thanks
Bradt

 

[surfchik]

Are you refering to something like morphing the shape into another shape along the timeline? What exactly are you trying to do?

 

[bradt]

Yes just a simple shape morph. Morphing one shape to another For example a circle into a square. In Flash it is called a "shape tween" and is very easy. You just have one keyframe that contains the circle then another keyframe that contains the circle and then insert a "shape tween" and that's it. But I can't find a way to do it in Live Motion that simply.
Is it possible?
Thanks
Brad

 

[surfchik]

Well I've been also trying to do the same thing with Live Motion and I don't think it can. It will tween only if your are making size, rotate, scale and colour changes to it, but not morphing type of tweening. I think that's where Macromedia has the edge. I could be wrong, since I haven't been using Live Motion for very long. There is no documentation on this type of motion in the manual. Hope someone else out there has a solution.

 

[HLAB]

Check out Illustrator 10 - It can do what you want with as many inbetweens as you like. You can then release the tweens to layers. I am having trouble exporting the file and keeping the layers seperate photoshop although I believe it's supposed to be able to do that. You can save as an annimated gif or flash.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hey guys.. i was surfing to solve the same problem.. her's a useful link

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/14824.html

pretty much detailed.

 

[Guest_imported]

Here is an Illustrator Tutorial (Quicktime format) that helped me with the Shape Tweening.

http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/livemotion/movs/illsequence.html

 

[Pixelchik]

Hi All,
I have just upgraded to LiveMotion 2.0, and with the Live Tab plug-in "Live Morph", you can do some shape tweening/morphing. It's cool.

 

[bsquared18]

Pixelchik,

That morphing program sounds interesting. Does it come with LM2, or is it an additional purchase? I tried searching for it on Google with no luck.

Thanks!

Bill B.

 

[Pixelchik]

Hi Bill,
If you go to Adobe Exchange website you can download all kinds of extras and plug-ins for Adobe products. Here's the URL for the Live Morph Tab towards the bottom of the page:

http://share.studio.adobe.com/axBrowseSubmit.asp?t=23

Have fun!

 

[bsquared18]

Thanks, Pixelchick.

I'll check it out.

Bill B.