“Grid Fill”

The second effect is the “Grid Fill”.
With the grid filling effect, we can work with a symbol from the library.
Moreover, it is not only the drawing area that you can fill with character effects but, can also be a symbol or a form that you have drawn.

For the “Grid Fill” effect, we do not have too many options.
The only thing you can set is the distance, both horizontally and vertically, between the symbols, and the scale of the symbol.

What I can say is that when there are one or more symbols or shapes on the “Stage”, below the coyote, and you draw a grid filling the “Stage”, this grid filling around the symbol will settle, and not the symbol, or shape.

 

“Vine Fill”

With the vine, we can effect the “Stage” using a symbol or a closed area filled like a vine pattern.
You can create your own symbols in place of the leaves and flowers. By default, “Flash” selects it in the library.
Select the “Deco” tool in the tool bar and choose “Vine” as type.
I leave the standard for “leaf” and “flower” as selected, the colors green and yellow, let me also say what they are for, and continue to focus on the “Advanced options”.

The first option is “Horizontal spacing,” and then you determine the “Vertical spacing”. With the color picker, you can also change the color of the branches.
With the second option “Pattern Scale:” you can adjust the size of the symbol.
The third option, we adjust the length of the segments between leaf and flower nodes

If we click on the “Stage”, “Flash” will slowly fill the “Stage” with the options you set.
Click a second time on “Stage”, then ” Flash” stops drawing.

If you would make a frame by frame animation, select the “Animate Pattern” option.
Indicate if a “Frame Step”, and click the “Stage” or in the form you want to fill.
The smoother the animation you want, the less you set this value to.
The frame by frame animation is automatically applied.
Click again on “Stage” when you have enough frames, otherwise “Flash” will continue to create additional keyframes.

 

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