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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.
Not yet.
Hi. Is it possible to download your application in order to use it even when I’m not able to connect the internet?
thanks
Yes, you can download it from SVN or Google Code at http://ajaxanimator.googlecode.com/
I’m very excited to see this! I’m a Biology teacher that will be requiring my students to make flash animations of the concepts we’re learning…
Are there any tutorials or resources that can give me an overview of Ajax so I can start using it this August?
You can find some documentation on the manual: http://brwainer.110mb.com/ajaxanimator/manual/index.php There isn’t too much to the application. You draw by selecting tools and drawing with them, to change the color of things, you select and manipulate the settings on the bottom of the left panel. You can go to different frames and use the select tool to manipulate it and the application will automatically generate the frames in between. Many concepts are shared between this application and other apps like Flash, one major difference is that the ajax animator automatically creates keyframes while flash needs it done manually.
tried it on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081216 Fedora/2.0.0.19-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.19 and I only get half a picture. the canvas seems to only display the top part of the animation. resizing my window so that canvas ends up near the bottom of my browser window gets me more, but never more than about half the image.
hope this helps.
This application looks great. I’m working with an inner-city school and the kids have little access to paid software. i think this will help a lot!
I don’t understand the user function and it’s not documented. Is there a server, accounts etc I need to set up?
If you want to install it on your own server, you can just upload all the files from SVN to a PHP enabled server, or you could just use the application from here which requires no setup.
There isnt much interface to describe, its feature set is quite small so there isn’t much to describe. Shapes are drawn using the tools in the left panel. The timeline on the top or bottom (depending on version) allows you to go to different frames. After going to a frame, the select tool can be used to move, resize, or rotate shapes, and the application automatically “tweens” or calculates the position of the transitional shapes by interpolating the first and second frames.
Does this software support voice/sound? AKA does the animations need to be mute or is there a way to include some sounds?
I would like to implement it somehow, but I just have no idea how to implement it.
A scene later, their soft, cooing voices and warm shoulder rubs or knee squeezes represent that glowing honeymoon phase right after making up. ,
The split is of course awkward at best. ,
If I load this URL ( http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator ) on my Nokia N95 default web browser it gets as far as the graphic that says “Ajax Animator (CR) Initializing”, the previous sections seem to load OK.
I installed the Skyfire Browser ( http://www.skyfire.com/ ) on my N95 and the Ajax Animator program looks like it works correctly. It is quite hard to see
What is currently happening with Ajax Animator?
When will we get next version?
Will there be new features or is it mostly infrastructure for future additions?
The next version will have VectorEditor replaced (at least partially) with SVG-edit.
Do you plan on implementing a ctrl+mouse move to bend lines? Would be a useful addon.
Curves don’t work in VectorEditor, but the next version, based on svg-edit should support it.
Hi, this is great software you’ve made. Thanks! I was wondering if a user can embed actionscript into their project?
thanks
tom
No, not net, and probably not any time soon.
I downloaded and installed the code to my server, apache2. When I run it under localhost with an internet connection it looks for the http://www.cachefile.net site and runs ok. When I disconnect from the internet it will not run because it cannot locate
that web site. I have php enabled because I use drupal and joomla. How can I get it to run with no internet connection.
You should use /html/ajaxanimator.html instead of /bulld/index.html
Where i can donwload this version??
Thanks in advance.
I haven’t posted it before, but here it is:
http://code.google.com/p/ajaxanimator/downloads/detail?name=ajaxanimator-wave.zip&can=2&q=#makechanges
Looks promising. Works well on Mac OS X 10.6 and Safari 4.0.4. It also works on an iPhone 3G TouchOS 3.1.3.
DD
Great development… I downloaded a test SWF and it wouldn’t run locally with Flash Player 10. Is there an update coming soon for 10?
Probably not because I don’t develop the flash compiler backend and the FreeMovie/PHP library which the app uses hasn’t been updated in the past eight years.
Hi! Thank you so much for the work you’ve done. It is a great alternative to the flash ide. It would be cool if you could have a library and make nested movieclips, like in the flash ide. This would make this program idea. Thanks.
hi
i have a website i need some help with
i dont know ajax
http://jjclassifieds.com
i need the 3 drop down boxes to be linked to the website
i was told the frist 2 drop downs are linked already
they are the countrys and the states
the city is not linked yet
this is the main thing i need finished for the website
can some on please help me do this or if you want i could give you the log in details for you to take a look at it
thanks ken
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hello. for a while i’ve now i”ve been wanting to create my own flash games and everybody pointed me here. I just have a few questions:
am i correct when i say this is only a platform-creating software?
I read there is an upgraded version- 0.2. what makes this better from the original?
I also read there is really no need to download. can you ellaborate more?
I read you cant put sounds with this, is this true?
is it COMPLETELY free?
Thank you.
It’s completely free and open source, yes. You can’t use it to add sounds. It’s a web app, so you don’t need to download anything. Just go to http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/ and it should work. However, you can’t make games with this. I’m sorry, this isn’t the program for you.
I really thankful to find this site on bing, just what I was looking for : D too bookmarked .
Nice post. I must pm about it my to uncle! Best Regards Grafik komputerowy.
I’m a little confused here. Been playing around for a little bit with it and then noticed, the demo doesn’t look like the screenshots at all. My timeline is at the bottom, i have no tools on the right, and the top menu is missing too. I’ve tried with Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. I failed to find any buttons to expand any missing menus/tools. The title says it’s the 0.20.05 Wave Beta.
I didn’t realize that one of the links are broken. The screenshots are for this version: http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/build/
And just another quick thing, why can’t i delete frames?
while using it more and more questions arise, is there a forum or anything similar (not counting the googlecode issues page) for these? if not:
- why is the wave version missing so many features?
- but why are there some features in the wave version which are not in the standalone one (like the right click -> delete frame function)
- why are there only 3 open issues on the googlecode page? isn’t anyone reporting? which would seem quite odd, because this is imho such a promising tool (good job so far btw).
- if i create a circular shape, strg-c + strg-v it a couple of times, spread them around a little bit, click on, lets say frame 5, make it a keyframe, only the lastly copied shape is in any of the in between frames 2,3 and 4. in 5 all are back again.
- is there any documentation on creating my own shapes and how could i add them to the library? and is there a possibility to save your a custom library to a single file to load them later?
- is there any way to set an image as background for a layer?
- when i use the select shapes-tool, select a shape, and then click on anywhere else on the canvas, the selected shape stays selected, is that expected?
- why seem to be the newest downloadable version in the googlecode downloads section older than the version from http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/build/ (haven’t checked the svn repository yet)
don’t get me wrong, i really like your application and i am thinking of incorporating it in a sports training platform as a tool for end-users to animate certain tactics or training sets. i would also be interested in helping you out in this, especially the shape library functions would be really interesting for me (as preset shapes for players, obstacles, etc). another nice effect would be that many people would write descriptions on this platform which you could use as documentation (after translating because it would be in german).
This is a very cool product. Nice job.
Thats more than sebsnile! Thats a great post!
this is for people that want to build up a library of media, not the best way, just a way that worked for me.
1. start a web server on your machine…i used the AnalogX simple server.
2. create a folder for your stuff wherever you want. i have it on the desktop.
3. as the author says change the library property to the address of your server, whatever that might be 111,.111.11.111/imgajax/face.png.
4. the only rub here is i have not figured out a way to browse the folder, so you have to know the image name that you want to use in the animation. pre-planning prevents piss poor production
5. 111.111.11.111/imgajax/face are not the actual address or folder name, or image name, you supply those.
BTW dude you are very interesting, and at 16 years old all you need to do is keep up the good work.
a story; i used to adjudicate hi school kids that wanted to go to summer school for video, digital graphics, and film. the last time i did this one young man’s entry was a php script to take random images from the web and compile them into a single picture, kinda like chuck close, as far as i was concerned there was no difference between that and painting a picture, just a different medium. so he got an award (whopee) for painting with a program script, and changed the way i look at what art is.
It seems to me that this website doesnt download in a Motorola Droid. Are other folks getting the same issue? I enjoy this web site and dont want to have to skip it when Im away from my computer.
Great work thanks for sharing
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