A Plug For ToonMonkey
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Dave Wolfe seems bent on solving all of our Flash animation headaches. Every time I turn around, he’s posting a new link to a free JSFL plugin. Thankfully, he’s created a website, Toonmonkey, to host his creations, and there’s several new ones that weren’t included in my post about his work back in March.
Included are (right click and ’save as’):
Toggle Outline - allows you quickly be more selective about turning on and off the outline function for each layer.
FrameEDIT - When doing character animation it’s not uncommon to have a symbol that contains all the elements of the head and face, and many animators will nest the facial animation within this symbol. When you double-click a symbol to edit the nested animation, Flash always rewinds the timeline to frame 1. This command remembers which frame you were on when you edit it.
Merge Layers - Merge Layers will merge unlocked layers into a single layer. If you select a range of frames, only unlocked layers in that range will be merged. Be warned that when dealing with selected ranges of frames, all unlocked layers for that range will be merged, not just the selected layers.
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May 3rd, 2006 at 9:29 pm
MultiSwap is awesome, great stuff!
May 4th, 2006 at 1:04 am
The FrameEdit link is broken (and that’s the one I’m after, yar!)
May 4th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Try again - just worked for me.
-Aaron
May 4th, 2006 at 3:35 am
wertle, if you keep having trouble with the download let me know, I’ll email you a copy.
May 4th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
does anyone know if there’s an extention that copies the tween parameters? (ease in, ease out etc.)
May 4th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
You can already copy/paste the tween values from the Properties panel, and in Flash 8 pro you can copy/paste the curves. I’m not sure how an extension would make this any easier, unless I’m just not fully understanding what you mean.
May 4th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
can you copy and paste the tween values automatically? (without entering the numeric field in the properties panel)
how do you copy/paste curve values? I didn’t see such an option
could you enlighten me?
May 5th, 2006 at 12:13 am
To copy and paste curves you just use the ctrl-c/ctrl-v shortcuts.
To copy/paste tween easing in the Properties panel you have to select the tween value in the numeric field and you can right-click to copy/paste or use ctrl-c/ctrl-v.
If you really wanted to cut out the step of going to the Properties panel it’s possible to make two extensions to copy/paste tween values, but I think it would also need to write a txt file that has the tween value, I don’t think you have access to the clipboard from jsfl except for stage elements and frames. They would also need to have different keyboard shortcuts.
For me, it doesn’t seem worth the effort since I don’t copy/paste tween values, I just select the tweened frames and set the value for all the tweens at once. I usually only copy/paste curves within the same custom ease panel. But if you really want it, it might be a good time to learn jsfl
May 6th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
FrameEdit doesnt work for me either.
Steve
May 7th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Ok FrameEDIT should work now. Shortly after posting these I uploaded a newer version of FrameEDIT, but the newer version was all lowercase letters. Apparently I’m on a Unix server so everything is case-sensitive
I’ve renamed it so now it should work.
Also, if you guys go to the main page (toonmonkey.com) there’s a link to the Flash Paper document that has all the tips I talked about at the LA Flash meeting a couple weeks ago.