Motion guide, combined with Motion Tweening, is a powerful feature in Flash. It allows you to create paths along which tweened symbols (and not only) can be animated.
Look at the example of Motion Guiding:
| [this character is moving along the white line] |
Creating a simple Motion Guide
First of all, create a document and make the width and height at least 300 pixels. Now have a look at the timeline
1. Insert two new layers.
2. Call them appropriately (double-click it).
3. Click on frame 55 or around and hit F5 to insert frames to both layers.
4. Right-click the layer guide and choose Guide in the drop-down menu.
5. Now draw a circle or any other simple object and make sure it's on the layer object.
6. We're going to create the path now. Grab the Oval Tool and draw a nice empty circle.
 |
| [to draw an empty circle, choose the icon with the red line] |
7. Once you've drawn the path, our object should immediately snap to it.
8. Copy the frame on which the object is to the last frame.
9. Cut out a small gap in the circle, so that the object has to travel the longer way.
 |
And we're done! Our SWF should like something like the one below.
|
|
I hope you liked this tutorial. Thanks for reading.
