A Question About "Movie Clips" In Moho

Simpy · Post by **Simpy** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:18 am

I realise MoHo doesn't have "Movie Clips" so to speak, as Flash does. This however, is what i require to achieve my desired affect.

I need a pre-defined loop of a small image, and i require to move it across the screen while playing the loop. Is this feature coming in 5.0? Or have i been to naive and missed it in 4.6 (It's the first time I've needed such a feature in MoHo).

Thanks.

Squeakydave · Post by **Squeakydave** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:41 am

Yes it is there. All you have to do is put your animation into a group layer.(And turn on cycling in the layers panel should you need it). Now you can move and animate the group layer.

spasmodic_cheese · Post by **spasmodic_cheese** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:47 am

woh i never knew that! thanks for the tip squeeky!

Simpy · Post by **Simpy** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:55 am

Thank you squeaky. I had a feeling it was there. Again, thanks.

DetoNaToR · Post by **DetoNaToR** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:40 pm

By the way, where is Cycling tool in Moho 5?

Simpy · Post by **Simpy** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:44 pm

It's in the layer properties.

Double-click on the layer, and click on the "cycling tab". Whatever animation you have performed (So if you have a keyframe in the translate layer, because you have animated it, entering the number in the corresponding item in the cycling tab will affect it), and for how long it is, simply enter the number of it's loop and it will loop if you have an animation longer than it.

For example. I Have a box that does an animation for 6 frames.

I also want that very same box to go across the screen for 48 frames, with these 6 frames looping. So apply the box moving.

Next to the translate or points (whatever type of animation you applied) part in the cycle tab, put in 6, and for every 6 frames the animation we applied to the box will loop until the box goes across the screen to frame 48.

DetoNaToR · Post by **DetoNaToR** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:23 pm

I know how to use cycling, but there isn't cycling tab in Layer settings! Or it's something wrong here..

Simpy · Post by **Simpy** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:26 pm

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence.

Umm....

Blame...ummm...

I'm Scared.....

DetoNaToR · Post by **DetoNaToR** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:35 pm

It's O.K..

Squeakydave · Post by **Squeakydave** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:28 pm

Cycling:
In v4 just double click on the layer, the layer properties pop open and there is a tab for cycling.

In V5 you seem to be able to get to it by right clicking on a key frame.

DetoNaToR · Post by **DetoNaToR** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:31 pm

Thanks Squeaky, now i found that.