Learning Adobe Flash CS4By Greg Bowden

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Creating ScenesChapter 22

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22Creating Scenes

Scenes are self contained Flash screens that follow each other in sequence, just like the acts of a play. To illustrate how scenes are used, a 4-scene zoo animation will be created. The first scene will introduce the Zoo, the second scene will create an Ape animation and the third and fourth scenes will display cat animations.

We will just use animal photographs in this example so you can see how to put the scenes together. In the normal use of scenes you would create more detailed animations.

Loading the Prepared FileA file with all the photographs and backgrounds has been prepared for you.

1 Load Flash and click on the OPEN button, or close the current file and click on the OPEN button.

2 Access the FLASHcs4 SUPPORT FILES and open the CHAPTER 22 folder.

3 Open the ANIMALS file.

4 Use SAVE AS from the FILE menu to save the file in your STORAGE folder under the name:

Animals

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The Introduction SceneThe Introduction scene will simply place the title on the screen as an animation.

A Creating the Animation

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9 Test the animation and the text should start small then rotate and grow to the larger size.

NOTE: You can also apply some 3D ROTATIONS and 3D TRANSLATIONS to the text if you wish.

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B Naming the Scene

It is good practice to name scenes so that you know what they refer to.

1 If the SCENE panel is not in the PANEL GROUP at the right of the stage, display the WINDOW menu, highlight OTHER PANELS and select SCENE, then drag the SCENE panel label into the PANEL GROUP above the LIBRARY panel.

NOTE: You can rename a scene at any time by simply double clicking on its name in the SCENE panel.

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The Apes SceneThe APES scene will insert some Ape pictures onto a background.

A Creating a New Scene

NOTE: Notice that the TIMELINE is cleared, but the BACKGROUND colour remains. We will add a background image over the background colour shortly.