http://lifeisagame.wincustomize.com/Download free Skins for ICQ and WinAmp, Windows desktop themes, WindowBlinds, DesktopX and More!en-usSat, 05 Jul 2008 17:03:00 -0500Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:03:00 -0500Carbon RSS Manager http://www.shellscape.org/pford@stardock.comhttp://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=153767 Effects>Explode (2) from the drop-down menu. ------------------------------------ STEP 5 After completing STEP 4 an 'Explode' window opens. I suggest you to try-out different settings until you get the desired effect. I used the below settings for this tutorial. First select the duration of the 'Explode Animation' you want (1). After that set the direction (2) in which the explode fragments should move to after the explosion. Next are Arc Size (3) and Rotate Fragments by (4). As I wanted that my fragments don't fly around too much I set them both to 20. The higher you set these numbers the bigger the explosion. Finally set the size change of your fragments if you wish to do so (5) and the final alpha of your animation (6). You should just leave it on 0% as this will make all the fragments disappear. When you set all the settings click the 'Update Preview' button (7) to see your animation. Please note that every time you change a setting you will need to hit this button to see the changes. Once happy with the explosion hit 'OK' to insert it into your flash document. You will probably need to wait a few seconds so please be patient. ------------------------------------ STEP 6 The final step you need to do is set that the explosion plays only once in case you still have some extra frames after it so it will not loop. In 'Properties' (1) tab click on the 'Loop' and select 'Play Once' (2) from the drop-down menu. ------------------------------------ Press CTRL+ENTER to preview the animation and if happy with it export it to AVI as described in Part 1. WWW Link ------------------------------------ This part completes the tutorials that you will need to create all the 'Shell Animations' so now you are ready to create stunning animations. You can download the final source file here WWW Link. Please post in comments your final results or if you have any further questions. Good luck!]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 10:02:35 -0500http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=15376737870fc5-2ba3-4805-a2bf-6bb99436c28chttp://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=151669 Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:38 -0500http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=15166985b3312f-d892-4301-b070-e5625f3ac0f7http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=151665 Wed, 02 May 2007 06:20:18 -0500http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=1516654f21cdb7-bc09-4f26-a9f7-a7e4792b1a2ahttp://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=150198 Export>Export Movie. In the ???Export Movie??? window type in the ???File name??? (1) and choose the ???Windows AVI??? from the file type menu (2) and press ???Enter??? key. In the next window you will see the settings for exporting to AVI. Make sure that the ???Width??? and ???Height??? are 272 and 60 (1) and that ???Maintain aspect ratio??? is on (2). For video format I recommend 16 bit color (3) with both ???Compress video??? and ???Smooth??? options turned on. Finally choose ???Disable??? sound format (4) as our animation doesn???t contain any audio and click ???OK???. In last Export window you will be able to adjust the compression options. You can test a bit different codecs and compression options but I recommend to use the ???Full Frames??? compressor for best results (1). There you go we have created an AVI animation for the SkinStudio in Flash. We used only basic animation options in this tutorial. Flash comes with lots more effects which I will cover in my next tutorial. The exported animation created in this tutorial looks like this. 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