Elementary shape tweening

[scarfman]

I meant to post this in flashdesigners. When I realized I'd misposted it, I was going to delete it from here, but wtf.

I'm a Flash novice animating cartoons with Flash 5 (Education Version). There's something to shape tweening, or at least shape hints, that I'm just not getting. In the files linked below, watch the hanging tail of the triangle's scarf between the last two tweens on the timeline. Instead of the corners following the paths I'd moved them in the keyframe, the entire shape flips on its vertical axis. All the shapes in the file including the scarf tail behave as I meant them until this. When I added shape hints nothing changed, suggesting I'm not attaching them properly. When I added them, I made sure I had the layer in question selected and the shape in question selected, including strokes and fills. I had Snap To Objects ennabled. Do those things matter? Did I set them backwards? Is there a step I'm missing entirely*? Thanks for any suggestions.

http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/shapetweening.05e.fla
http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/shapetweening.swf

* This has happened to me before. When I couldn't figure out motion tweens from the Lesson on the Help menu, I found a tutorial on the web, and finally only figured it out by combining the steps of both sets of directions.

Comments

[abates.livejournal.com]

Eh, it looks like it's gotten two of the vertexes confused. Bizarre!

[scarfman]

Yes, and the function that's supposed to fix that when it happens didn't work.