Flash Beginner Chat

[Raymond]

You brush tool heathens have no clue what you're on about
line tool superiority
also, if you guy's problem with line is that the connect to each other, just turn object drawing on

Why am I just finding out about this now?

[Anton]

Explain further please... I NEED to be tutored about line connections.

I tried, and the lines are all curvy and stuff, how to avoid it ?
How to makes the lines glued to each other ?
How to fix the head on the top of the bunch of sticks ?
How to avoid layer overlapping (and line segmentation clusterfuk) ?

[Drone]

Hold on, give me a bit to get off my ass and eat and then I'll put up sone screenshots with descriptions to help you guys out a little

[Marvilicious]

Please don't use the brush tool. The only thing it'd teach you is how to drop your art level to 0%. I needed several days to recover from that anim.

What the hell are you talking about?

It doesn't matter what tool we use. The most important Thing is that we are comfortable using it.

[Raymond]

Does anyone have the link to download Macromedia Flash 8 for free? I don't mean the torrent version, I mean the free version I've heard people mention on here.

[SIFTER]

I think I can upload the portable version that I have tomorrow to mediafire, if that's okay with you. Though, it will take a long while to download.

Also, marvy, what I dislike about flash's brush tool is the way it behaves when you turn on a certain amount of smoothness (20 and more). In comparison with other drawing softwares, it doesn't really feel very natural.

[Raymond]

I think I can upload the portable version that I have tomorrow to mediafire, if that's okay with you. Though, it will take a long while to download.

I appreciate the thought Sifter, but I would rather get it tonight. I can probably find the link myself, but I know a few of you have already downloaded it. So I thought I would ask.

Edit: I just searched it in google and it was the first result. Thanks anyways guys. :P

[Ipman]

Sup guys, make me useful and ask me questions

If you must.

[Anton]

Ok then, i need some explanation on the line tool, since brush tool is reminding me of the horrible .ezt memories
You can go hard on technical stuff.

the lines are all curvy and stuff, how to avoid it ?
How to makes the lines glued to each other ?
How to fix the head on the top of the bunch of sticks ?
How to avoid layer overlapping (and line segmentation clusterfuk) ?

By the way, if you feel like redacting a bunch of paragraphs, better try to put that in the tutorial section ;)

[Ipman]

1.) What do you mean by, "how to avoid it?".
2.) When you make another line, try dragging it somewhere at the end of the line you're connecting it to.
3.) What do you mean exactly? The size? The position?
4.) Create another layer then : )

[Gary]

Also, marvy, what I dislike about flash's brush tool is the way it behaves when you turn on a certain amount of smoothness (20 and more). In comparison with other drawing softwares, it doesn't really feel very natural.

a simple solution is to just

i dont know

turn the smoothness down in that case

[Ipman]

My suggested brush smoothing is 30-40
all you need is a steady hand then you'll be fine :^))

[Drone]

With my tablet I usually use like 22 but with mouse I generally go 34 or something
also the line thing I was gonna explain is still a thing, I'm just really lazy

[Gage]

I use the pen tool (^:

[Juke]

I used the brush tool for my first animation and I liked it a lot. I'm currently animating with the line tool and I also like it a lot.