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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 19 2004, 10:15 AM (125 Views) | |
| Ranoka | Oct 19 2004, 10:15 AM Post #1 |
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Teacosy is watching you! ♂
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I was poking my keyboard while drawing in Flash, and I discovered that if you press 'x' then the pixel grid pops up, and then you can snap the line, pen etc tools to the pixels while you're drawing. It's a good short cut when you want to snap stuff to the pixel on the fly for a short instance rather then having it on all the time. Just thought I'd share. |
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| vyp0r | Oct 19 2004, 08:53 PM Post #2 |
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Brackenwood Elf
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hehe, nice one! Just one question - Who on earth pokes their keyboard randomly?! LOL! |
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| FhqwhgadsE2TL | Oct 26 2004, 04:14 PM Post #3 |
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What version of Flash are you using because X does nothing for me on MX 2004 7.2. If you are refering to the GRID, then it's CTRL+' for me. What I'm wondering though, since thread's kind of lifeless, is there a way to do pixel type art directly in flash? The brush tool doesn't seem to snap to the grid, and the line/pencil/pen tools all have rounded endcaps on the lines. |
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| pooon | Oct 28 2004, 04:39 AM Post #4 |
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Bring the grid back up and draw a line over every one of the grid lines. This way you have an actual grid drawing in your frame. Use the fill tool and fill in the blocks. Alternatively, you could draw a square box and copy and paste (or ctrl+d) and line up the copy with the original. Then copy both those squares and paste them beside the orignals. You'd now have 4 squares. Continue until you have the grid you were going for. The downside to this is, it takes a lot longer than, say, MS paint. The upside is you have a fully scaleable pixel drawing. When you're done, just double click on the grid lines and press delete. It should erase the entire grid in one foul swoop. |
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| juggleballz | Oct 28 2004, 04:58 AM Post #5 |
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I'm loose, full of juice and ready for use!
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another quick one is if you wanna copy something quickly without hitting the edit copy edit paste, or ctrl c and ctrl v, etc, click on the thing u wanna copy, hold ctrl and a little plus sign pops up, and if u drag the image it duplicates it there and then. I think its a pretty unknown one, so sorry if u all no this already. Come on ppl. anyone else with these shortcuts that arent the most obvious, post them up. I use shortcuts all the time and i love hearing about new secret ones. thanks for that one ranoka. gonna use it too.
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| FhqwhgadsE2TL | Oct 28 2004, 10:59 AM Post #6 |
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I'll have to try that "graph paper" way of doing pixel art in flash. The second way doesn't work so well.. not as accurate. Thanks P0000N. I don't have a shortcut right now, but I have a little trick for something. If you haven't saved a gradient fill in your color swatches and need the same fill quickly for a similar object, just double-click the object until the fill is selected, then select the fill color down in the Properties window (it should have absorbed your object's fill properties). Once the color selector pops up, just press the ESC key and the fill properties should transfer to the Color Mixer. Grab your fill tool and go to town with it
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| pooon | Oct 28 2004, 02:38 PM Post #7 |
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I think the eye dropper tool does the same thing in one step
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| FhqwhgadsE2TL | Oct 31 2004, 05:43 AM Post #8 |
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Ok.. I'm going to go slam my head in a door for awhile.. brb heh, thanks pooon.. |
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