Editing Symbols in Adobe Animate for HTML5

Okay, in the last video we look at adjusting  the instances, okay? The children. Now we're gonna look at editing. Um, MC, Bob. Okay? Let's say we are physically  change 'em, we don't like 'em.

Or the clients come back and said, it's not a space alien  unless it's got a space helmet on. Okay? Or a mustache or a hat  or something else you want to add to it later on. So what we are gonna do is  we're gonna go through and edit it. And there's two ways of doing it. There's one  doing it in isolation mode.

So if I double click the icon in here, you'll notice  that Bob ends up in the middle of my window with no,  he's kind of like in the, uh, the matrix. He's kind of all by himself. And you can do your edits in here, okay? And that's one way of doing it. You can see I'm inside scene one, I'm inside mc, Bob  and Mc Bob kind of by himself. I'm gonna go back to scene one.

What I prefer  to do is double click on them in scene. 'cause then I can see him in relation to his buddies. And you'll notice that if I double click to go back  to the same one, he's got a bit of alpha applied to him. So he's a little bit transparent. But when I double click it  to go inside, he goes back to full. Um, you know, his full kind of original state.

And that's fine. 'cause when I come back out,  he'll go back to his alpha. But when I'm in here, right, I'm going  to zoom in a little bit, okay? Remember that's command plus  or control plus on a pc, I'm gonna move across  and I'm gonna add a helmet to 'em by using the same tool. What should I use? I use the pencil tool.

Go back to my libraries. It's gonna be a white line. How thick is it gonna be? That's a bit thick. Maybe down to something like four. Okay?

And I'm gonna make sure that I can't see, I drag it here. I'm gonna make sure it's on smooth. Make sure it's on this, uh, a hundred  and I'm gonna put a helmet on them. Okay? Great. Helmet.

How many times can I draw this while you're watching? You just want me to finish real quick. I know you do. All right. That'll do. That's the space helmet.

And what we can do is double click to go back into the,  I'm gonna zoom out again as well. Double click to go to the background. And you can see it's applied to the actual original symbol,  mc, Bob, and they've all got little space helmets on now. Okay? So if you ever have to go  and edit a symbol, it might be the logo  that you use more than once,  or it might be some type you've turned into a symbol. What you need to do is double click it on the stage, okay?

Do your edits. Um,  and then when you're finished, double click to go back  or you can double click it here  in your library and do the same. Just make sure you, when you're finished,  end up back at scene one  and without any of these little extras along here.