I will warn you, this ain’t going to be pretty but a few people have been asking. Feel free to tear these apart… do what you will with them… no license… no need to credit me… knock yourself out if you are that way inclined.
I simply have no interest in writing extensions for Fireworks anymore… hopefully someone else might be able to pick these up and do something positive with them.
Trevor McCauley has written a fantastic little (actually it’s 10 pages) tutorial on creating advanced custom Fireworks Panels using Flash.
It’s well worth a read, includes tutorial and sample files and covers;
Nice work Trevor. :)
Check out Trevors new Extrude Path Command for Fireworks.
Extrude a single selected vector path vertically at a specified height.
Trevor McCauley has released another(again!) new Fireworks AutoShape called ‘“Pinwheel”:http://www.senocular.com/downloads/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1103905435&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&kind=8’.
The Pinwheel Auto Shape creates a ‘Pinwheel’ consisting of 2 to 16 consecutive spirals placed revolved around a common center. It consists of 5 control points to control size (inner and outer radius), rotation, spiral count, spiral style (solid, checker, and wire which can be cycled through by clicking the Style and Count control point) and spiral curvature.
As an additional feature, you can use the sub select tool to alter the path of the primary spiral (the one previewed when altering the shape that is formed between the control points) and have all other consecutive spirals mimic the change. Altering the shape with control points after doing this will undo the effects.
Trevor just doesn’t let up. As a part of his relentless one man conquest to populate the world with Fireworks AutoShapes he has taken it upon himself to write a tutorial for mugs like me so that we might be able to aspire to developing something with the quality and flair of his offerings.
I think a big reason there aren’t more Auto Shapes out there is because people just don’t know how to make them. Hopefully this will shed some light on the subject.
Trevor McCauley
What a guy. :)
