Rolling a ball on the motion guide

I did well tonight. I persevered, for two-and-a-half hours, working out how to move a ball along a motion guide.

I know I'm slow but all the internet guides and Flash books I consulted did not fully explain things so I had to absorb the bits that worked and work out the rest for myself.

And although we did this exercise in class my notes were poor and I figured that really thinking about what I was doing, rather than replicating things, is what I need to do.

This is the way forward because as well as doing the task in hand I pick up a lot of information along the way. I need to be patient, think things through...and be even more patient!

This is how I rolled the ball along the line.

1. Add motion guide.

2. Draw a line on the motion guide layer.

3. Alter Motion Guide layer's Tween (in properties bar) to Motion. Make sure the Snap box is ticked.

4. Draw a circle on layer 1.

5. Click on layer 1 and alter Tween to Motion and make sure Snap is ticked.

6. Click on stage.

7. Convert circle to symbol (Movie clip)

8. Create frames (I went up to 40) on both layers.

9. Click on layer 1. Move the circle to the final frame/edge of the line. Click on playhead and insert a keyframe.

10. Control - Rewind.

11. Control - Play.

12. Job done!!