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Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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I miss flash too. No other development environment was/is as easy to use. I learning to program with as2 and as3.

If you weren't aware previously, you'll be pleased to learn that you can still program in Flash if you really want to, and distribute your programs on the web. https://ruffle.rs

We need an open source equivalent to the Flash editor (AKA Adobe animate) that uses Ruffle and can output to it.

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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I am glad to see that they’re backing off from discontinuing. I would really, really like it if they would let me buy it outright instead of subscribing. I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program. Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger an…

The base feature set of a tool like Flash has been stable for well over a decade (maybe even two) now; why has no one spun up some agents and released an open source clone of Flash that runs on all major platforms for everyone to enjoy without giving any money to Adobe?

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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post #15

I am glad to see that they’re backing off from discontinuing. I would really, really like it if they would let me buy it outright instead of subscribing. I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program. Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger an…

https://ruffle.rs/compatibility

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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Discontinuing is fine, the egregious part is not open sourcing it. Huge swathes of internet culture in terms of both story telling, animation and games is locked up in this system they have no interest in.

Either it has value and shouldn't be open sourced in which case why not keep developing it.

If it has no value whats the excuse not open source it as a sign of good will for artists and developers to invest time in your ecosystem, otherwise the message is "If you build with our apps and systems you will be locked out of your work forever when its an inconvenience for us, even if you're paying us hundreds a year"

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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post #24
post #15

I am glad to see that they’re backing off from discontinuing. I would really, really like it if they would let me buy it outright instead of subscribing. I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program. Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger an…

Has anyone tried to clone that experience in more modern tooling? It's something that everyone speaks fondly of, and was very successful as a creative tool.

https://rive.app

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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"We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers." https://www.reddit.com/r/adobeanimate/comments/1qv5yju/updat...

Yeah, and so was Freehand/MX (I was a beta tester for Macromedia and still use it) --- once a complex application is no longer updated for new OS versions, its death knell has sounded, and it's only a matter of time before it can no longer be used (save for in a VM which recreates the environment it was developed for, or on Windows 11 (which is arguably a stack of compatibility layers w/ the attendant performance and reliability hits))

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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post #15

I am glad to see that they’re backing off from discontinuing. I would really, really like it if they would let me buy it outright instead of subscribing. I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program. Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger an…

For drawing at least there is:

https://www.wickeditor.com/#/

Re: Adobe Animate will be discontinued

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flash editor was the magic

Indeed, Flash UI is really its strenght, the way to draw and manipulate curves, I don't think I've seen anything like it after that, although illustrating is not my trade. However, it is possible to do cool procedurally generated stuff with the drawing API, or use plain normal bitmap graphics to do things.

There is Wick Editor (which I mentioned elsethread)

https://www.wickeditor.com/#/

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