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Utilizing Orient to Path

Utilizing Orient to Path - Edge Animate Tutorial

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Utilizing Orient to Path

One of the really cool things that we've been able to do in Flash, and thankfully, had gotten much easier in recent releases, is the ability to orient a symbol to a path. In Edge Animate, it's even cooler. So, we'll begin by opening up orient-to-path.fla and orient-to-path-start.an. Here in Flash you'll see that we have an animation where the top and bottom rockets crisscross and the middle center rockets just continues to traverse through the center from left to right. And of course, how we'd done this is we adjusted the path with the Bézier tool, and then we selected Orient to path. We're all quite familiar with this. In Edge Animate, to achieve the same thing, I'm going to start by selecting the top grouping of rockets. When you hover over a motion path, you get not only the ability to add an anchor, but if we hold down the Command button, we have the ability to actually drag the entire animation path and reposition it on the stage. If we select the Option key, we have the ability…

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