You're reading from Mastering Adobe Animate 2021 Explore professional techniques and best practices to design vivid animations and interactive content

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074162

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed

2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations

4. Chapter 3: Settling into the User Interface

5. Chapter 4: Publishing and Exporting Creative Content

6. Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Manipulating Media Content

8. Chapter 6: Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web

9. Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting

10. Chapter 8: Animating Poses with IK Armatures

11. Chapter 9: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth

12. Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms

13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games

14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL

15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Writing JSFL Scripts

In this section, we explore the use of JSFL scripts in Animate. Using JSFL scripts will allow the automation of certain tasks that can be run with a menu-based command within an Animate document. These scripts can generate objects or manipulate objects that exist within a document. In our example for this chapter, we'll create a randomly generated splatter pattern across a document using JSFL.

This is one of those features that users will often hear about but never actually explore. JSFL scripts can not only improve workflows when dealing with repetitive tasks, but they can also be used to encapsulate specific procedures to share with others.

All of the JSFL commands can be executed and managed by selecting Commands from the application menu:

Figure 13.6 – The Commands menu

You have a number of different options here, but any installed JSFL scripts will appear in the lower portion of the Commands menu. By default, you...