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We would like to build a knowledge-sharing community and develop the site as a free and rich resource of advanced Flash animation techniques.

We would like to encourage contributions in the development of EDAP Tools, ideas regarding new functionality, thorough testing and bug reporting.

All meaningful comments, questions and opinions are very welcome!

Please, post your thoughts below or under any of the articles.
We will do our best to answer.

Simon

9 November, 2011 at 2:25 pm

G'day, this is Simon From the college Nickolay teaches at.

I think it would be helpful in terms of conveying the use of the plugin if one of you screen recorded the process of animating a character using the tool while perhaps having a text cue that recorded the key strokes and displayed them at the bottom of the screen.

Raven

24 January, 2012 at 9:21 am

I found this site by accident but im glad i did. Thanks a ton this will really help me. Ill be coming back

cindy scharka

14 March, 2012 at 5:41 pm

I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THESE PLUG-INS NOW… ESPECIALLY SCROLL THRU SYMBOL AND SWAP MULTIPLE SYMBOLS.… AWESOME TIMESAVERS.… YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!

Nina Paley (@ninapaley)

12 May, 2012 at 1:55 am

I'm finally using your Flash Power Tools, and they're fantastic. Just one suggestion - put a "donate" button on your site! Or a Flattr button, or something. I like to support Free software, even if it's with just a few bucks.

nick

12 June, 2012 at 6:34 pm

Thanks, Simon, Raven, Cindy and Nina!

Your positive feedback is much appreciated!

We're now working on some more advanced and powerful tools for our next release, so stay tuned.

Charlie

22 August, 2012 at 6:25 am

Wow, EDAP tools is an incredible find! So many scripts that speed up my animation workflow! It allows me to focus more on my animations, and less on the technical side of character rigs! Also, the developers respond to feedback/bugs immediately! Thank you so much for creating this package! I'll be sure to spread the word!

nick

8 November, 2012 at 7:01 am

Thank you for your comment, Charlie!

The next release is scheduled for December - January.

Exciting new features coming with it!

lucas gonzaga

13 October, 2012 at 3:54 pm

You are the best! Keep up the good work. Try to use Flash Panels and a complete workflow with the adobe softwares (illustrator, flash, after effects, premiere). Flash is just a step in the process.

Congrats!

Lucas Gonzaga

7 November, 2012 at 4:11 am

When the new release will come out?

nick

8 November, 2012 at 6:59 am

Hi Lucas!

We are aiming at a December - January release date.

A lot of the work is already done, but there is still some more and then serious testing and writing of documentation.

David Jablonski

26 May, 2013 at 1:22 pm

Hi, just want to say what a great product this is. Also, I am having a lot of trouble getting the synchronize timeline tool to work. I feel like I am doing what it says, but when I select synchronize time line, over the multiple frames, nothing happens. Could you describe to me the process in precise detail, please. Thank you so much for releasing this. It's cut down on my workflow a ton.

Brian NS

31 July, 2013 at 2:15 pm

Great job on the Electric Dog Flash Animation Power Tools - this is one complete set of tools that I use a lot for my flash animations.
I've tried a lot of individual plugins and they work well on their own but it's so good to have a solid base of components in one package.

Is there an update planned to work with flash CC?

nick

31 July, 2013 at 6:40 pm

Hi Brian,

Thank you for the positive feedback!

Our current CS5 release works perfectly fine with CS5.5 and CS6.

We haven't tried CC, but I will investigate in the next few days and will get back to you.

nick

2 August, 2013 at 5:29 pm

Hi again Brian,

We will include a ZXP package option for Creative Cloud users with our next release.

Until then users can convert the current version of EDAP Tools from MXP to ZXP via Extensions Manager CS6, downloadable from Adobe's website.

adobe.com/exchange/em_download/

Daniel K.

10 November, 2014 at 11:40 pm

This is one of the most useful tools for flash animation.
Makes character animations a breeze.
The learning curve is pretty small, and once you get used to it - you can't live without it…at least in Flash 🙂

Very good work gents, thank you!

Serg

20 July, 2016 at 5:11 am

Hello! I like your Electric Dog Flanimate Power Tools! Great job !
I am watching you with version 2.5. We are pleased to use your itstrumenty !!! Thank you so much !!!
Yes, please - to take a hot key Alt + x put a keyframe
only layer is not closed on the lock. And to this command does not work in layers, which are closed on the lock!
(Sorry, I am writing to Google translator)))))))

nick

20 July, 2016 at 4:32 pm

Hi Serg,

If I understand correctly you would like to exclude the locked layers from Alt+X keyframing.
With the current version (3.5) you can use '//no key' in your layer name and that will let you avoid adding keys to certain layers.

You can change the '//no key' suffix from EDAPT Control Panel if like.

If this is not what you're looking for, please, send me an email to
info at flash-powertools dot com
to better clarify the problem. Maybe include a file with an example.

Glad you like the tools!

Flicker

7 March, 2019 at 4:31 pm

Hi , since the first time I saw the demonstration , I am amazed with your works . This is the exact tools that I need . It's have lot's of powerful tools and functionality .

The only downside on my point is the breaking joints when tweening the rig .

Eventhough I don't know how programming works , maybe it can be fixed with code that create motion tween and then adding a motion path relatively from parents magnet points maybe ?

Anyway great works .

nick

7 March, 2019 at 4:38 pm

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, Flicker!

Have you checked out Clean Up?

http://flash-powertools.com/clean-up/

Good luck with your work!

John

7 April, 2019 at 7:46 am

Thanks so much Nick for linking me to here from the Adobe animate forum , Your advice on the Adobe Forum and all the knowledge here will help me so much , I look forward to installing EDAP tools as soon as i am ready , it seems funny now that i thought i had to discover the correct file type for imports in Animate , when all i needed was an expert to tell me to create in Flash..

Thanks…

nick

7 April, 2019 at 8:06 am

You are most welcome, John!

Hope you'll find useful information here that does not repeat what is available in other sources.
Have a look around and start with whatever seems most relevant or most interesting.
I post new articles infrequently, but somehow regularly whenever time permits.

We are very busy working on the next version (5.0) of EDAP Tools which takes precedence over writing.

Always feel free to ask questions.

Best regards!

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Nina Paley

I’m finally using your Flash Power Tools, and they’re fantastic. Just one suggestion – put a “donate” button on your site! Or a Flattr button, or something. I like to support Free software, even if it’s with just a few bucks.

Justin Kupka

The Electric Dog Flash Animation Power Tools (EDAPT for short) is a new technique for rigging character within Flash that dramatically speeds up animation workflow. ... With the old way of animating in Flash you would have to select each individual piece and move it into position on every frame. This gets even more messy if you were to add a tween to those objects. With the old method, if the arm was hanging beside the character, and he raised it up into the air, all of the pieces would move in a straight line from point A to B. ... With the Magnet rig setup all you have to do is go to one of those in between frames. Set a keyframe, and hit the ~ key and it will snap all of the objects back into place! Read More...

David Shumway

Amazing tools. Changed the way I use Flash from fun but frustrating, to just pure fun

Sebastian Zegers Risopatron

This looks very thorough, thanks a lot! it's very hard to find articles that are as in-depth and professional as this, great work!

Raven

I found this site by accident but I'm glad I did. Thanks a ton this will really help me. I'll be coming back!

Andre Guindi

A gift from the heavens! Next Frame in Symbol/Prev Frame in Symbol shaved eons off from the animation process!

Daniel K.

This is one of the most useful tools for flash animation. Makes character animations a breeze. The learning curve is pretty small, and once you get used to it – you can’t live without it…at least in Flash Very good work gents, thank you!

Waqar Rasool

I am an artist and a 2d animator and have been using Aftereffects and Flash for my character animations. Your toolset and this help article is AWESOME! Thanks a lot

Lucas Gonzaga

You’re the best! Perfect Tools. Thanks!

Charlie

Brian NS

Great job on the Electric Dog Flash Animation Power Tools – this is one complete set of tools that I use a lot for my flash animations. I’ve tried a lot of individual plugins and they work well on their own but it’s so good to have a solid base of components in one package.

Chris Dean

Thank you so much for this insightful compilation! I normally do 3d animation, but had to transition into 2d for a project I’m working on. This lesson probably improved my upcoming project 10-fold, and made the subsequent projects infinitely easier. Wonderful work!

David Jablonski

Electric Dog Flash power tools really make Flash work so much friendlier than Adobe thought it should. It really solves so many of Flash's symbol short comings. Smart transform and the magnet rigs really speed up the animation process, and I know for a fact I couldn't have hit a few deadlines without these swell tools. It wasn't too hard to learn and the personal help I got when I couldn't get things to work was amazing. I just updated to Flash CC on a new computer without the EDAPT plug in and I only made it about an hour using plain old Flash before I had to stop, and get these power tools set up. Once you use these tools, you will not want to go back. And they're Free! Stop swearing at Flash and use it the way it was meant to be used. I'm a total cheapwad and even I had to donate a couple bucks because of all this product has done for me. Check it out!

Ryan

Just wanted to say thanks for such a comprehensive run down of an efficient Flash workflow. It was a huge help.

deek

Massive help to my Flash work in UNI. Thanks so much for this brilliant learning resource, there’s nothing like this out there.

Ajit Pratap Singh Rajput

is this EDAPT tool supporting in flash cs6? if yes then how?

Jesse Cunningham

Nothing but crashing for me. Animate CC 2017. Im not even able to make a magnets work lol. Need a clearly more introductory level tutorial. I would pay to get this to work as smooth as you guys do in the videos. This sucks hard!

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