Cool Motion interface introduction
I will let you know--what makes up Cool Motion’s simple yet powerful interface. Toolbox, main operation area, Class window, Properties panel, Action panel and Output panel introduced here can definitely help your later learning. Series: Cool Motion 1.0 Estimated Time of Completion: 20 minutes
1. 1et's look at the whole user interface when Cool Motion start up,
2. We may find there are many different areas within Cool Moiton's interface: Menu Bar; Tool Bar; Timeline; Drawing Tools; Canvas; Function Panels; Properties Panel.
3. There is another editing window besides the Movie Editing Window(as shown above): the Script Editing Window (to see this window, choose"File > New > New Script")
4. Shape, Scene, Transform, Layout, Library, Movie Explorer panel. The Shape panel is to set the attributes of selected shape symbols.
5. The Scene panel is to store scenes in this movie document. Cool Motion provides more than one scene, just like scenes in film, and we can create numerals of different scenes and switch them freely. You are about to experience the feeling of directors.
6. The Transform panel is used to position, scale, skew and rotate an instance, and to create color transform.
7. The Layout panel is to set the alignment of multiple selected instances in the movie, horizontally or vertically.
8. The Library panel is to store all the symbols in the current document. Automatically, every symbol you draw on the canvas will be stored in the panel.
9. The Movie Explorer panel provides easy access to the elements used in the current movie and lets users select an element on the canvas quickly.
10. That’s the end of the introduction for Cool Motion’s interface. In the next section, we will show you the basic Flash creation.