Well we've all probably seen the "Mortal Kombat" ninja before. But how possible is it to do this with AS3 using a bitmap in a mc. I have searched all over the place for a tutorial on how to go about this but I can't seem to find anything that suites my needs. Do you think Flash has the power to do this at runtime for a game?
View 14 RepliesI'm a pixel artist struggling with AS3.I want to load a sprite sheet from file, actionscript through the five rows of colors in the upper left to identify the five palattes (by default, the sprite sheet is colored using the first palette), then recolor the entire sprite sheet according the one of the five palettes, setting magenta to transparent. The end result being the ability to do this...
I can do loops and arrays, but I don't know how to actually cycle through the PNG identifying and replacing colors. I've loaded the sprite sheet and scrolled the palette out of view using scrollRect, but nothing else.
Code:
//Scale the screen x3
scaleX=3;
scaleY=3;
[code]....
I have an animated character swc that is an empty skeleton basically (has all the body parts, animations, and functions/vars). I want to essentially put different clothes on that character at runtime so I don't have to have many copies of this character in my resources.
For example, I have 'skeleton' (the non-clothed model) and 'Bob', 'Jane', and 'Mary' characters. 'skeleton' is animated and fully works as an exported swc, and to get the other characters in their clothes/skins, I open up Flash CS5 and replace the movie clips with the 'clothed' versions of the components. To clarify,'skeleton' has "body parts" as movie clips that are all animated on the timeline, such as "head","face","left arm","right arm", etc. I open up 'Bob', who has the same exact design as 'skeleton', with the exception that 'Bob' has all the clothes and such as differently-designed movie clips. The size, shape, orientation, and reg points are all the same across all the components. After I've replaced all the movie clips in 'skeleton', I export it as a swc named 'Bob.swc' and I do this for all the characters.
What I'm asking is, how can I do this process ^, but at runtime instead, so I don't have all these duplicate root swcs ('skeleton' has a lot of frames on it) so I can cut down on a bunch of space? So I can do something like:
// bob gets all the actions and animations of skeleton
var bob:UIMovieClip = new skeleton()
// replace the body movieclip with a new looking one
bob.body = resources.bodyassets['bob']['body']
I've been into coding for about 5 years now, but I'm a recent convert to Flash development. One of the questions I have at the moment is, considering that SWF files can be run by either Adobe Flash Player OR Adobe AIR, what's the real difference between the two runtime environments? What API's and Objects exist in one environment, but not the other?
Basically what I'm more or less trying to establish is, when would I want to develop an SWF for AIR, and when would I want to develop for Flash Player, considering that Flash Player can also execute locally (providing support for creating "desktop applications")
I use a custom color palette in Flash CS5.5, it was originally created in flash 8. I have it saved as default in the swatches tab. Every time I create a new document it loads this original color palette. But after I save the file, close it and re open it, it always loads the web 216 palette.
View 1 RepliesI have some code in ActionScript 2 similar to the below snippet (Item being a MovieClip):[code]I'm unable to remove Temp after swapping the depth (works fine otherwise).[code]how to get rid of Temp?
View 2 RepliesHi. I'm teaching myself flash, and to that end I'm making a simple top-down shooting game. My (current) problem is this:
All of the basic enemies and allies are currently represented by a simple MovieClip consisting of a circle (the 'body', also used for hit detection) and a named Weapon instance. 'Weapon' is a class linked to another simple MovieClip. The Weapon class serves as an abstract base class for a variety of 'real' weapons (Rifle, Laser, etc), each of which has a matching ActionScript (3) file and MovieClip. All the weapon MovieClips are visually unique.
Ok, with me so far? Well, I want my little soldiers to be able to change weapon, so I've created a function "swapWeapon(newWeapon:Weapon)". This sets the soldier's Weapon instance to the 'newWeapon' variable. This is where it gets confusing: the functions and code of the new weapon (eg, bullet speed and accuracy) all transfer correctly, but the appearance remains the same (the default 'Weapon' MovieClip).
My guess would be it's to do with the fact that I'm swapping a MovieClip instance for different (sub-) class of MovieClip. But that's as far as my knowledge of flash takes me
I am trying to create match the following pairs in flash where you drag an element upon its correct pair & drop it.Each element has its own unique coordinates at start. Now, here is what i m trying to do with left matching element( i haven't programmed right elements with same functionality yet), whenever one drag left matching element upon right element the "dragged "left element should change its position corresponding to right matching element(both should be at same Y coordinate) & the original left element should swap its position with dragged left element original position
I m trying to swap but getting results like "test.jpg", where overlapping happens. i have attached the FLA, please view it, any advice suggestions are welcome..
PHP Code:
var arr1:Array= new Array(match_left1, match_left2, match_left3,match_left4);//array elements are instance name of left side matchings on stagefunction mouse_up1(e:Event){ e.target.stopDrag(); if((e.target.hitTestObject(arr2[0]))||(e.target.hitTestObject(arr2[1]))||(e.target.hitTestObject(arr2[2]))||(e.target.hitTestObject(arr2[3]))) { var hit_name:String=
[code]...
How do you shift the colors of a bitmap image, with a red/yellow cloud, so that red becomes orange, then yellow, then orange, then red again? The yellow should go trough the same process, but start and end with yellow. Same with all the other colors in between.Kind of like when you play with the hue-setting in photoshop, but instead of looping trough the whole spectrum, it only loops trough red>orange>yellow>orange>red.
View 7 RepliesI want to swap images throught javascript. It's working.but my problem is I want to call that function from flash on press for my button this is the code I have used in html[code]....
View 1 RepliesI'm having some problems porting a palette shifted animation system from J2ME to Flash. The system is used within a game that construct characters from separate body parts for e.g. head, left arm, legs, eyes, mouth etc. These can then be tinted and animated. Each of these body parts is coloured using a look up table. There is the original palette, then there are 18 other palettes that can be used to tint the image. This way you can configure different looking characters without having hundreds of different images. Each palette has 398 colours, there are 18 different palettes in total.
Each body part contains a small amount of colours, usually around 10-20. Colour A1, Colour B1 etc... Then the body part can be tinted using another set of colours, for eg Colour A3, B3, C3 etc.. It's simply a 2D array. (I have screenshots that help explain if needed) Now I've been trying to use PaletteMap, without success. I believe it uses a full colour palette (i.e. 255 vals per colour), and can't simply change colour A1 to colour A3 etc.
I also tried threshold, but that doesn't seem to be fit for purpose. getPixel / setPixel is way too slow for my purpose. It needs to be pretty fast as each body part is animated. I have a lot of flash programming experience, but never at such a low level! I might have been using paletteMap / threshold incorrectly, but the adobe docs leave a lot to be desired!
This is my drawing code that I have now, and I wanna be able to use the color picker palette to chosse between color red, green and blue.
[Code]...
This is to be exported into a movie, so not an Actionscript question. I'm making a parody of a fighter-game scenario. One character looks like Subzero and the other like Scorpion. They're the same models but one should be colored differently. They're comprised of symbols such as arms and legs to make a larger overall character animation. There are several animations of them, for kicks, punches, bobbing, etc. Now, I know that if I went in and edited the colors, that all instances would change accordingly. Duplicating the symbol doesn't work because they share the same inner symbols. Is there a method for "deep" duplication? A tint doesn't work because essentially I only want to change the color of some of the components.
View 7 RepliesI want to make a custom color palette on my paint project that I am developing. Also need 'paint bucket tool ' functionality.
View 0 RepliesI've seen the Loom project, but are there any alternatives that are more mature (and actively developed)? I am looking for something that would allow load-time weaving of pointcuts into existing binary code at runtime with the AVM2 runtime.
Has any work been done in this area?
I want to create a flash document that allows me to change the colous of an image using a colour palette of my own. I am a complete beginner and have no idea where to start this, hence i would need to know what to do and how to do it. I basically want the image to be a simple 2d image that i will create using different layers in photoshop and import them into flash, the layer images will all be one colour so the colour of the whole layer changes. so the colour palette will be on the side of this and when i click on an image and then a colour the image changes to the colour i clicked.
View 3 RepliesWe are creating an ecommerce site for my business and am trying to create a flash file that will allow the end user to select a color from a palette of 64 different swatches that they would like their item to be so it processed it into the order. I only need to create the flash file so they can select the color.
View 4 RepliesI want to use a comboBox from which the user selects a colour theme. When the item is selected, I want it to run a function that will then change various item's attributes. I don't know where to store the new attribute values though. I tried storing them in comboBox item under DATA but that didn't work. I also tried having a function as data which didn't work either.
View 1 RepliesAnyone knows a good color palette source? something with a choice of, i don't know, 20 or so colors.. So the user can select the color he wants..
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to get this script running. It's to make a menu consisting of 5 buttons next to each other. When one of the buttons is clicked, it swaps position and color with the most left of the sequence. The gap created by the transition is either filled with a simple swap, or having all the buttons left of the gap slide to the right.So I figured I'd arrange all the buttons in an array. Here's my script
Code:
#include "mc_tween2.as"
function setup() {
[code]......
I am currently working on a project of a commercial flash box thing for their website.I have a thing where I need a bunch of images to wipe in this certain way. They are in mc's, and just sitting there, while I have squares moving on top of them doing the wiping. I need to know how to swap these image mc's out when it hits a certain frame e.g. frame 70.
View 1 RepliesWhenever I link a set of movieclips together with the bone tool which are inside a containing movieclip, and also set the type to "runtime" instead of "authortime", I get this error when published.
"Runtime symbols with skewed matrices should be wrapped in a movie clip" What does it mean? I need the type to be set to runtime so I can use scripting with it..
I'm trying to figure out how to have a movie clip randomly replaced every time the page is refreshed. I have 4 clips that I want to have appear in the overall movie, but swapped in and out randomly. Also, I want these clips to play once, then stop, but continue to show the last frame of the clip for the remainder of the time that the main movie is playing. I must be placing the stop() in the wrong place or something. I tried placing one inside the original movie clip before I published it, it works on it's own, but not when I place it in the timeline of the other movie. No matter where I put that stop command, it doesn't seem to work.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to swap movieclips in and out of an area, rather than loading an endless number via attach/getNextHighestDepth. Is there a way to swap my attached movieclip A with a new attached movieclip B, so that either clip A or Clip B is loaded, but not both? Because my current program uses attached files of identical size that overlap, I didn't realize there was a problem until things slowed down. I checked my number of objects in the debug list between hitTests and lo and behold, the list of objects got longer each time, even though to the viewer, it looked the same.
View 4 RepliesI upgraded recently to Adobe CS5 from MM Flash 8 so that I could recover some newer Flash components that were developed in a newer version. This all seemed to go with out any issue. However, once in CS5, I noticed twice that an images switched to another image in the library. So I had two copies of the image and one image that went missing. I solved this by just updating the image that was corrupted.
I was on a crunch for this project and was working 16hr days, so I just left my computer on over night with CS5 open. I published the presentation and sent it for approval. Once everything was approved closed CS5.
When I reopened it many, (around 30ish) of my images have been corrupted the same way. I went back to my previous backups and the last 8hrs worth also have the corruption.
Is this something I can easily and permanently fix in this demo or as long as I use it will it keep on screwing up?Is this issue only with images or is my action script also likely to be corrupted?
I simply want to be able to write a function within a class that swaps a button or movie clip on the stage (that sits within another movie clip)with another button/movie clip that is located within the library.I have attempted the addChild() method but that doesn't seem to be working so well...e.g.clipOnstage.myBtn.addChild("libraryClip")....was just hoping it would replace the mc that is already within the display object container (kind of like what loadMovie used to do in as2)
View 4 RepliesI basically have a large bar of items that fills up dynamically, they are all added to a dispCont movieclip as a container. When you click on one it gets pulled to the front, scales up and I want all the unselected Items to blur or become semi transparent. So i figured i could just tween the dispCont object, however this affects whatever is brought to the front, so i want to switch that into a new MovieClip called centerCont. Here is the code, ive been trying different things, I could just use a little input.[code]when I click on it because i am trying to set event.target.parent = centerCont;otherwise, uncommented and that removed i get Code:1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type flash.display:DisplayObject.
View 0 RepliesFor starters, I may be going about this all wrong, but I have two PNG bitmaps that I have embedded into my script:
[Embed(source="pic1.png")]
private var Image1:Class;
[Embed(source="pic2.png")]
private var Image2:Class;Now I can addChild and removeChild to get them on and off the screen, but this seems cumbersome.
I have got an animation using 4 jpeg pictures which are of course stored in my library...I use them multiple times in the animation and I need to change them from time to time but I dont want to swap them manually in flash. The ideal solution for me would be if I could write some code that is able to swap this images in library for those I have in folder where swf is saved. here you can see my animation for better understanding: [URL]
View 2 RepliesHow do you go about swapping depths in AS3? I've got a movieClip (allContent_mc) that contains a bunch of other movieClips(mc1, mc2, etc.) that expand in size when clicked on. However, when they are expanded I need to make sure that the one being viewed is on top. The control to expand each clip lives within each clip itself. Ideally, when the expand code (below) is executed, I'd like to make sure the clip's depth supersedes all others. I'm keeping all the clips together in one larger clip because the larger clip is living inside a scrollPane component. Pretty sure I'm just not defining the path to the clip correctly.
ActionScript Code:
function goOpen(e:MouseEvent):void{
this.setChildIndex (square_mc , this.numChildren - 1 );[code]...........