Macromedia MAX 2005 - Anaheim, CA What’s New In Flash 8
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Flash ignores all other blending modes imported from Fireworks. The blending modes that are not
supported in Flash are Average, Negation, Exclusion, Soft Light, Subtractive, Fuzzy Light, Color
Dodge, and Color Burn.
Using the New Easing In/Easing Out Controls
A tween is the application of a change to a graphic object over a period of time. For example, you
could tween the location of a picture of a car from one side of the Stage to the other to make the car
move from side to side. To ease a tween is to control the rate at which the change is applied to the
object. New easing controls in Flash allow you to precisely control how tweens that you apply in the
timeline affect the appearance of tweened objects on the Stage. With the new controls, you can
make an object move back and forth on the Stage within a single tween or create other complex
tween effects.
Custom Easing Controls with Various Properties
You have complete control over acceleration and deceleration for motion tweens. You can also set
easing for position, rotation, scale, color, and even filters separately. This is really an amazing
feature, and it will speed along animation development.
Applying custom ease in/ease out to motion tweens
The Custom Ease In/Ease Out dialog box displays a graph representing the degree of motion over
time. Frames are represented by the horizontal axis, and the percentage of change is represented
by the vertical axis. The first keyframe is represented as 0%, and the last keyframe is represented
as 100%.
The rate of change of the object is represented by the slope of the graph's curve. When the curve is
horizontal (no slope), the velocity is zero; when the curve is vertical, there is an instantaneous rate of
change.
The dialog box provides the following additional controls:
