From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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Guide layers

Guide layers - Harmony Tutorial

From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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Guide layers

- If I was in Flash now, I would probably be using classic tweening and applying the correct arcs with a guide path. The beauty of Harmony is that it has a much nicer system, I think, and it ties the paths into the layer itself, so let's see how. First of all, we have to correct this funky business here, so let's go back into the transform tool so we can select these different points, that's the easiest way to select the points. They turn purple when you click on them. And the tension control, if we change that from one, it goes from one to minus one, so let's try minus one, see what that looks like. You can get these kind of arcs as well and you can do fractions like 0.1 and so forth, so one gets you a good chunk of the way there. Let's click on this one and tension: one. Now, obviously, there's going to be a lot of times when this is not sufficient or it's a little too mechanical, so, at that point, you might want to insert more control over these arcs, so let's click on that line…

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