Motion Guides are killing me

[Webforumz Staff]

Hey Reeno,

Ok, By "Horizontal popup menu" you mean a pull-down menu, where you mouse over an item and items in that category drop down below?

Like this?

Get it here

Dynamic drive has many free scripts like that, have a good browse around.

[Reeno]

Hey Sirkent,

First of thnx alot for replying me..I m really very glad tht someone helps me.By "Horizontal popup menu" i mean a pull-down menu, where a mouse over an item and items in that category drop down below.U r right.Thnx alot again.It helps me alot.
Oki..Bye & have good time.

[señorbadger]

You can make them easily in Macromedia fireworks
using slices and hotspots just layout your menu then use a hotspot to put over a selected area,

then right click on the hotspot and add menu

i will write a better guide soon

it will be on http://htmlschool.co.uk in the new year

thanks all

Sam Lad

[proton32060]

Never Mind- I searched the Flashkit Forums and I think I got it.
But I would like to know if this is as conceptually as hard as it appears.
Following tutorials were useless and never seemed to work.


If was on a higher floor I would have jumped by now.

Are Motion Guides as hard as they seem?

I have been screwing around with this for four hours, and that is not an exaggeration.

I keep getting error message about layers with grouped and ungrouped objects. In spite of me trying every possible combination I can think of.

I followed the example in the book exactly for at least a dozen times and it won’t work.

I managed to get it to work once off the online tutor but I can not replicate that.

This was fun until now and I could pull my hair out.

This is what I am doing:

1) open new document
2) Create circle on layer 1 and group it
3) Click add motion guide
4) Highlight motion guide layer and draw erratic line
5) Add keyframe to motion guide
6) Click layer 1 and snap circle to start of line
7) Add keyframe layer 1 and go to it. Drag circle to end of line
8) Click on motion guide in middle and click Create motion tween
9) I get a dotted line and error” Motion Tweening will not occur on layers with ungrouped shapes or on layer with more than one group or symbol”.

I doubt you guys can help since you almost have to be here. But I am about to lose my mind on this one.

I have tried every combination I can think of and nothing works.

[Webforumz Staff]

Ok, "grouping" may well be the wrong thing here... I never do it.

You must make sure that whatever you want to motion guide is a SYMBOL.

Try it with one object converted to a symbol and go from there.

[proton32060]

Thanks Sirkent,

The problem was the book was a little confusing. It took a paragraph to explain what needed a page.

The book sounds very much like the tween is created in the guide layer.

Once you understand the Guide Layer modifies an existing straight motion tween it is very easy.

I was spending all that time following the book and it kept coming back to trying to create a motion tween in the Guide Layer. There are a lot of Posts over at Flashkit on this since apparently a lot of people were reading it the same way I was.

I guess I have been pretty lucky.

This was the first part, so far, that has slowed me down.