I'm trying to develop an animation of a cube, but looking straight onto the
side of the cube, meaning its a square. However, i need it so when the user
clicks on a button, the cube flips over, and then it displays another square.
Different color squares maybe, i dunno. But i was wondering if anybody could
help me on animating the cube.
thankyou

Are you asking how to draw it? or how to code it so it works the way you
describe?

For drawing, aside from looking at some drawing how-to books down at your
local mega-bookstore, you could download the trial copy of something like
Swift-3D, do the animation there and study the results.

For coding, it's really a matter of starting and stopping a timeline animation
(sometimes skipping I'd think...gotoAndPlay...). It's probably more a matter of
planning than actual coding.

Write back though if this still doesn't help! Good luck!

ok so i downloaded an evaluation of swift3d...looks like i can draw a cube, but
do i do the animation in flash or can i do it there? and how do i export it to
a flash file? how do i import it into flash?

Swift is also an animation program and can render an image sequence as
vector or raster format doending on your needs. swift's help docs are
some of the best written docs around - you should be able to learn more
there.

chris georgenes l "Flartist" (Flash Artist)
www.mudbubble.com l www.keyframer.com l Team Macromedia

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