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One of my projects to build a fully standards-based, online, collaborative, web-based animation suite. Its original goal was to be a usable Flash IDE alternative, but has evolved into a cross-platform/cross-format animation tool, primed to support Animated GIFs, SWF (Flash), SVG Animations, and more. It is currently built using Javascript and PHP. Yes I know that the name isn’t the most creative thing ever, and also isn’t the most accurate name ever (There is almost no actual XMLHttpRequests going on there, most of the stuff is client-side and saving/opening is done through a POST into an <iframe>).
The new Ajax Animator version 0.2 was launched on Sunday, August 8, 2008, with this post.
Newer and Old Screenshots. Video Introduction (Gadget UI). Wave State Demo. User Made Introduction (Standard UI)
Run Application Now – New Redesigned Interface with VectorEditor, Multi-Select, Onion Skinning
Standard OnlyPaths Based Versions: Original 0.2x Standard UI
VectorEditor Based Versions: New Redesigned Interface with Multi-Select, Onion Skinning OR Standard UI OR Google Wave Gadget (new, must have Google Wave)
iPad Compatible Version: http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/ipad/
An early development screenshot.
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Great work, I was looking for a OS functional Flash animation environment for my students and this is the most promising one. Thank you for this project.
Greetings from Peru.
Daniel
PS: Do you have a date for the next release?
The current developing version (0.2) will be released some time within the next few months. Maybe even this month.
It is strange that you receive only few attention for your projects which are really promising.
Keep on this amazing work !
Nice! Will it have AS1 support in the future?
Possibly, but not yet.
Can the software import images? In the future?
There’s a section on this in the manual, you need to upload your image to a service like imageshack and insert the URL into the text box in properties when you select the Image tool.
I have been here since I found the link on the liveswif forums a few years ago…just came back and I must say, amazing!!!! I clicked all the links on the ads, keep up the fantastic work.
Great, but it lacks some important flash features like interactivity (buttons, objects, etc.). Will the support for ActionScript be added in future versions?
When I publish(flash or gif) my animation (a red dot moving from left to right in 20 frames) I only get an empty white movie (or image). I have tried on different computers, same result. If I open the gif-file in Photoshop I get a lot of layers, all white and empty.
(Using Firefox, Flash 9, windows xp sp3)
A bug or?
Strange… It works for me. How are you drawing the animation? Does it play in preview?
Yes, everything works fine (preview or view animation) but the saved file i clean as snow.
Here is the code I tried today:
{“name”:”Untitled Production”,”creation”:1223847249210,”contrib”:["anonymous"],”modified”:1223847270186,”generator”:{“app”:”Ajax Animator”,”build”:514,”release”:”0.20.02″,”dev”:false,”stability”:”Beta RC3″,”date”:1218925525.7},”revision”:13,”tcframe”:18,”tclayer”:”Layer 1″,”layers”:{“Layer 1″:{“keyframes”:[18,1],”src”:{“1″:[{"id":"shape:aa0717e1-d299-4ccf-899b-8e734ede1e11","type":"roundrect","transform":"rotate(0, 42.5, 34.5)","fillColor":"#FF0000","lineColor":"#000000","fillOpac":1,"lineOpac":1,"lineWidth":1,"rx":20,"ry":20,"left":25,"top":17,"width":35,"height":35}],”18″:[{"id":"shape:aa0717e1-d299-4ccf-899b-8e734ede1e11","type":"roundrect","transform":"rotate(0, 360.5, 28.5)","fillColor":"#FF0000","lineColor":"#000000","fillOpac":1,"lineOpac":1,"lineWidth":1,"rx":20,"ry":20,"left":344,"top":11,"width":35,"height":35}]}}},”width”:480,”height”:272,”framerate”:12}
Oh. You used the Rounded-rectangle tool, which doesn’t work. You can use the Circle/Ellipse tool which is immediately to the right of that icon instead.
You can try again. I added the Rounded Rectangles to the compilier, but they’ll look like rectangles. Again, if you want a circle/ellipse/dot, you should use the Circle/Ellipse tool which is immediately to the right of that icon instead.
I tryed again and it works with rectangles and lines, no other tool is giving anything if I publish to flash. If I publish to gif some more is working (eg freeform and circle, but not rounded rectangle).
I like this idé and your intensions in this project, that´s why Im responding. I think it´s a brilliant idé!
Right now, it’s for technical limitations. I’m using the FreeMovie library, because this is on a PHP server without any such things like Ming/Java. I’m getting a Java server, and hopefully I will be able to use the more powerful Java Transform library to support all these shapes.
The idea is fantastic. As someone who knows nothing about flash (even if this project is flash? ) I found it incredibly easy to use. At this stage I’m not going to list all the bugs but here’s the key ones that need fixing:
1. Animation speed – I search high and low for a way to slow it down
2. Stop the animation – My animation said “goodbye” and then started again
3. I lost the text information at the bottom of the screen – and with text, IE didn’t like my ouput (nor gimp gif)
1. You lower the frame-rate. (see properties bar on the bottom)
2. By default, animation is in a loop. I could add that to a future version.
3. Rendering isn’t that good. Text hasn’t been implemented in most of the export formats but will eventually.
Thanks for the comment!
Its very cool, and i congratulate you for some really good work!
I can put images into the animation and the preview of the amimation looks fine, but when i export it as a flash, the flash is just white blank.
The export mechanisms can’t add images yet. This will be fixed in the next few versions when we switch to the new Java based export library
Not bad… Not bad.
Can you delete keyframes in current version?
no, not yet. But you can always undo.
Incredible work!
when i go to a new time frame the one i was just at gets deleted what is happening?
Do you have more information on what happens exactly?
I know what it’s like to develop something you care about solo. Excellent project, and kudos for going open source.
No requests here, just grateful for its existence!
Thanks!
Hi,
there is someone working on the Portuguese (Brazil) translation of the project?
if possible I am very interested in helping the project, either programming or translating.
hugs
Right now, there isn’t any system for making translations, if you could get a translation API, that would be great!
hey where can i find the manual for Ajax?
a thousand thankyous
Do you mean my program, the Ajax Animator? or the technology Ajax?
Ajax Animator:
http://brwainer.110mb.com/ajaxanimator/manual/index.php
(but just going to Help-> Manual should work too)
XMLHTTPRequest:
http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
You are a genius!!!
This is so cool!
How did you get so good at coding?
Hi,
I’m impressed! I hope you will go on and the project will stay growing, with more contributors. It would be bad if such a very good work was interrupted.
Do you plan to make an easily downloadable and installable version for use offline at home (I don’t have no internet connection at home and I’m not the only one, here in third world).
May God help you.
I’ve been playing with this today, and it’s really cool. I’m sad there doesn’t seem to be a tutorial though, I’m somewhat lost without one.
Is there some post or doc that explains how to script the animations to respond to mouseclicks etc?
sadly, there is no way to script animations -_-
I’ve been watching this project for over I year and I think this is cool.
and if you could make it scriptable it will make it a lot better.
Great job.
Any chance letting me put it in an I frame in an online os I’m making with jquery?
I have just tryed to upload an .swf file but it did not show on the screen.
I have tryed toupload it many times but because there is no progress bars ,we do not know if the files has been or not uploaded.
Thanks anyway,this looks promissing.
good work
ben
It’s somewhat hiddenly scriptable via macro type snippets. And you absolutely may put it in an iframe.
It can’t load .swf files yet.
Thanks! When I’ll finish it I will send you a link if you want.
I love the animator! Will you make it open source so people can modify it, or is it OK if I just steal the script?
Lol. http://code.google.com/p/ajaxanimator/
It’s always been open source.
I’d appreciate if you were to somehow tell me about your modified versions if you made some. Or if you want, I can make you one of the developers.
Hi, I tried the “Development (Unstable) Version” from the above link, and parts of it seem to rely on cachefile.net. Cachefile.net “is no longer” according to their site as of March 2009.
Otherwise, great job and thanks for sharing Ajax Animator!
As of now, the Development version isn’t much ahead the stable build, so there aren’t anythings there yet. I’ll go ahead and remove the link
Man its great!
I’ve found it today wile I was searching for a way to make flash stuff in an old notebook, and that is great (not so great yet) as it is online I can use any pc!
Since I mostly work with flash games I ask, will it be possible do make games on it? or just animations?
Thanks for do the ajax animator =D
You should add anti-aliasing to the exports
Hi! I am glad I found this application, my only question is that I want to change my HTML site to a flash one using a template, is there any way with your AJAX Animator to upload the FLA file from the template to edit and compile the flash?
Thanks!
On which export format?