Wednesday, April 2, 2008

German Invasion - Labs 5, 6, & 7

I was finally able to get these German maps together this week and here's all of them together. It took me the longest time to get my little tanks to snap to the motion guides - seen here - Lab 5 - Motion Tween , and once I got that it still took a while to set them all up. The best thing I did was lock the layers I wasn't using while editing different objects. I didn't grab and move my base layer every 5 seconds.
In Lab 6 - Shape Tween, the moving shape was only difficult when I was trying to move the little yellow vertexes between different dates. I was able to change my yellow vertexes to blue, making the selection of them much easier. I also got advice not to overlap the vertex points which really helped.
In Lab 7 - Splash Screen, Links and Pop-ups, I added a splash screen by inserting frames at the beginning of the timeline. I added a button to jump right to the main interactive page, but also added a 3 second delay if the button wasn't pushed. I tried making a separate scene in Flash, and when I did I could not publish them together. I could only make two different .swf files for each and they didn't run together. Whenever I tested the movie it would only play my invasion scene. The links are the title Wikipedia, Wikipedia) and the legend Discovery, both to Operation Barbarossa pages. In the discovery page, they have an animation of the battle with both the German and Russian armies depicted.

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