Motion Scripts

Motion scripts are Flash 5 or 6 action scripts applied to the shape you select. The motion script animated effects are not viewable within the KoolMoves main editing environment, because the internal display within KoolMoves does not understand action scripts. All you see is a blue dashed box surrounding the shape. On playing the animation in the preview window associated with the motion script, in a web browser, or in a stand-alone Flash player, the effect of the motion script will be visible.

Because of the nature of these action script-based effects, frame-by-frame changes in color, shape, and position are ignored by the effect. The position, color, and transparency from the first frame the shape appears in is used by the effect. The length of the effect is determined by the effect itself not by the number of frames the shape appears in. Also, the drop shadow effect does not appear when a motion script effect is applied. If the text is a single letter or if the effect is applied to a non-text object, effect parameters such a left to right or right to left do not apply.

You can achieve some level of frame-by-frame changes by embedding the object with the motion script inside a movie clip and then manipulating the movie clip in position, size or rotational angle.

For those advanced users who want to control the effect from the main movie through additional action script commands such as stop(), the name of the movie clip that encompasses the effect has the same name as the shape in the KoolMoves shape list. If there is an embedded space, the space is removed.

You are able to create your own motion scripts and use them in your animations. See the readme.txt in the My Scripts folder inside the Motion Scripts folder for more information.