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I dunno if it's a Pro only version, according to the feature matrix provided by school above, it is listed for both Standard and Pro...

So here is a screen shot of where it is in the App.  Make sure you download and apply the patch to being CTA to version 1.2

Also, for those who are curious, you cannot export a single frame SWF, it requires at least a two frame animation, so it's not really meant for exporting out to modify the character.  You can do this, but it's still the tedious workflow where you ahve to replace all the piece of an already generated character, re-position them, re-scale them, re-align them, piece by piece.  It's primariy for exporting character animations to use in either Flash animation or Flash games, not so much for character editing. 

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Peter (RL) (8/31/2011)
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Hello ! Just downloaded last patch and installed it for CTA standard, but can't find the SWF export option in "WEB" export . The interface seems different from what is shown on your documents about that new SWF export feature - Ican only export in FLV from the "WEB export" section . Any idea of the source of that problem of mine ? Thank you .

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Hi Fulup

SWF export is currently only available in the Pro version of CrazyTalk Animator unfortunately. I will try to find out why this feature is included in the Help Guide for the Standard Edition. :Whistling:

Peter, the version comparison also shows the SWF export as being available oin the Standard version...

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/Animator/animator_matrix.aspx

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Also, for those who are curious, you cannot export a single frame SWF, it requires at least a two frame animation, so it's not really meant for exporting out to modify the character. You can do this, but it's still the tedious workflow where you ahve to replace all the piece of an already generated character, re-position them, re-scale them, re-align them, piece by piece. It's primariy for exporting character animations to use in either Flash animation or Flash games, not so much for character editing.



if you use adobe flash....

with the new swf import , you now get all the vector-shape with the right position in flash for an easy editing and reshape in drawmode

After reimport to CTA, is a re-position , re-scale and re-align not necessary. It is so much better for me :D

I'll show my workflow in the next time.


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vidi (9/1/2011)

if you use adobe flash....

with the new swf import , you now get all the vector-shape with the right position in flash for an easy editing and reshape in drawmode

After reimport to CTA, is a re-position , re-scale and re-align not necessary. It is so much better for me :D

I'll show my workflow in the next time.

If there's no re-positioning, or re-scaling, or re-aligning necessary, then this is certainly one step closer to more easily creating and importing characters then.  Thanx vidi...

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wizaerd (8/31/2011)
Peter, the version comparison also shows the SWF export as being available oin the Standard version...

Unfortunately this was an error. SWF export is only available in the Pro version of CTA. The version comparison page now shows the correct information. 

Apologies for the confusion this error caused.

                                                                

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vidi (9/1/2011)
Also, for those who are curious, you cannot export a single frame SWF, it requires at least a two frame animation, so it's not really meant for exporting out to modify the character. You can do this, but it's still the tedious workflow where you ahve to replace all the piece of an already generated character, re-position them, re-scale them, re-align them, piece by piece. It's primariy for exporting character animations to use in either Flash animation or Flash games, not so much for character editing.



if you use adobe flash....

with the new swf import , you now get all the vector-shape with the right position in flash for an easy editing and reshape in drawmode

After reimport to CTA, is a re-position , re-scale and re-align not necessary. It is so much better for me :D

I'll show my workflow in the next time.

I was able to export a character into Flash, modify some of the parts, but now I'm not sure how to export just those parts, and get them into CTA...  Out of all the symbols that make up a character, how do I export just the pieces I want?

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I'm very busy at the moment ,but after this week, I will have more time ,again .

My english is not enough to explain, therefore I'll show it as video .

promised!:)

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Here Quick & Dirty my way with flash. It is not to go in deep tutorial and only for explain what I mean , but I think so for a Adobe Flash User understandable
http://youtu.be/cjh7n4gfrCc

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Thank you vidi, on my way to watch it now...

[EDIT] Ahhhh...  I hadn't tried exporting from the individual symbol editor itself.  Perfect.  Thanx vidi!!!

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Thank you for taking the time to post this video. Very easy to follow and a tremendous tool for editing characters.

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