Hi,

I'm a relative newcomer to Flash. I wonder if anyone else out there has come across a problem when they try to do a simple colour fade with a shape tween in Flash pro 8. I don't change the shape of anything at all - only the fill colour is changed in a keyframe - yet when I add a shape tween, the shape goes through seemingly random morphs, ending up with the original shape. What gives? A bug? Am I using flash improperly? Is there a better way to be doing multiple transitions between colours (it's cycling through about 8 colour gradients)?

Many Thanks!

I've not used flash in anger for a while, but I think I had similar problems when morphing shapes where flash would pick the wrong corners to morph. I solved this using the shape hints mechanism that flash provides. I can't remember the necessary steps off the top of my head, but it's there in the help file. If you really want I'll dust off my copy of flash and try and remember how it goes.

Apparently Flash is detecting that you made some sort of significant change to the shape in addition to changing the fill color. Make sure that you haven't made any changes to the actual shape itself (in this case). I did a few tests, and all I did was create a few keyframes, all with different fill colors, clicked the original keyframes, and Shape tweened them, and they all worked correctly with no strange morphs.

You might want to start off with a clean document for at test and try with like a square or something and see if it works there. If that doesn't work, try retracing your steps to see if you did anything that would make it morph thus.

Hopefully this helps...update us if you figure it out