Exercise 6: Symbol inside a Symbol – Sun animation

1. Draw an orange circle
   
   
2. Convert it to a symbol – press F8, name it “sun01”, select Graphic from the Type menu.
   
   
3. Select the Line tool, and draw one ray coming out of the sun.
   
   
4. Convert the ray to a symbol, call it “ray”.
   
   
5. Select the ray with the FTT (Free Transform Tool), move its pivot to the center of the sun.
   
   
6. Open the Transform window, in the Rotate field enter 15 degrees.
   
   
7. At the bottom of the transform window, click the “Duplicate selection and transform” button. Click it as many times as needed to make rays all around the sun.
   
   
8. Select all the objects on the screen.
   (Left click mouse and drag across the screen with the black arrow, or select the frame on the timeline, or hit CTRL+A).
   
   
9. Convert to Symbol (F8). Name it “sunAll”

1. Now comes the Double Clicking:
Make your way into the ray symbol:
Double Click "sunAll"
Double Click "ray".

2. Let’s make a short animation for the ray:

• Create a new keyframe at frame 10 - go to frame 10 on the timeline and hit F6.
• Select frame 5, hit F6 again to create a key frame there
• In frame 5, make the ray shorter.

3. Select all frames on the timeline, right click on them, and select "shape tween" from the context menu.

4. Now Double click your way one step out – Double click anywhere, ONCE, on the background, to get up to the sunAll symbol.
Make sure you are inside sunAll by checking the Breadcrumbs.

5. Because these are Graphic symbols, we need to extend and match the timelines in all the nested symbols to the same length.
Go to frame 10 and hit F5 to extend the playing time for ray .

6. Double Click again anywhere on the background to return to the Stage.

7. Go to frame 10 here as well, hit F5 to extend the playing time for the sunAll symbol.

8. Hit Enter to play the movie inside the Flash authoring environment, or hit CTRL+ENTER to export an SWF and test the movie.