I'm trying to time things in flash and need a high-speed timer with resolution of somewhere around 10 to 100 microseconds. the closest thing i have found so far is the "time" component of Date. that has a resolution of about 16 milliseconds and therefore is too coarse for what i need.
View 3 RepliesI've got a short SWF around 150 frames long, the first 49 frames consist of a movie clip that contains an embedded FLV movie (created in after effects), the remaining frames consist of a few basic motion tweened graphic elements over a total of 4 layers and the file has no action script. The problem is that when I export the movie every other time the file loops the latter 101 frames after the FLV play back at high speed.
The first 49 frames always play back normally, but then 1st time the remaining frames play high speed, then 2nd time normal speed, 3rd time high speed then normal etc etc. The project is set to 12fps and the embedded FLV is also 12fps. The file shows no errors. Can someone explain what is going on here? I have never come across this problem before, but then I've never used an embedded FLV before, I suspect this is what's causing the problem but I can't figure out why, especially as the file plays back as it should every other time.
I am currently using a timer to add animated squares to the stage. I would like to make it so that each time a square is added, the timer starts to go faster. This is what I have so far, but it doesn't update in the actual timer.[code]
View 3 RepliesI want to make simple motion tween of analog timer seconds arrow. Can i sync it with specified defined timer on AS3?I know that the regular speed of animation can variate according to system specs.
View 1 Replieshow can i make a high score table for a flash game where EVERYONE see's the same high scores?
eg.
Bill gets 1000 in USA
Ben gets 1002 in UK
they can see each others scores on a high score table.
I have a php website that uses sessions and if your not logged in you cannot acces a web page... I want the same for my Flash file, but want flash to see if there is a valid session on the php website and if there is play the flash, if not access denied..![code]...
View 2 Replieshow to use mxml component in another mxml component actionscipt code [code]but i am getting error saying "Type was not found or was not compile time constant:warning")
View 3 RepliesPlease i am looking for a way to call a function defined in a different frame in ActionScript 2.0. The details are as follows[code]...
For some reason, the code on frame 2 is working by itself but selecting an index from the list from another frame is not working. In other words, i am not able to call successfully selectVideo() from frame 1 while it is defined in frame 2.
The objective of the program, as implied, is referring to a certain video from the list from a different frame. The whole code is working without errors just I'm not able to select a video from the list and play it if i was initially in a different previous frame.
i'm trying to access an mxml component from my external as file. e.g
main.mxml:
[mx:text id="myText" />]
file.as:
var mainM:main = new main();
mainM.text.visible = true;
i get the following error:
[TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference]
I want to add an animated .gif file to my movie. So I created a new symbol and then imported the .gif file to the stage. This created the symbol containing the animated .gif.I dragged the symbol onto the scene where I want it. However, the animation seems to play at a different speed (fps) than normal. So I changed the fps of the symbol (at bottom of Timeline where it says "fps"). But for some reason this changes the fps of the rest of the entire movie.
View 3 RepliesI'm tweening a movieclip from startX to finishX. The value of startX varies but finishX is a constant. But as the startX increases in value the animation appears to be quicker. How do I adjust the speed of the tween to ensure a consistant speed regardless of the value of startX?
View 1 Repliesis there anyway to change a songs playback speed depending on a speed variable. heres the kicker tho im limited to using only as2.
View 2 RepliesI have a movie clip on my scene which has a speed applied to it making it move across the screen. This is duplicated when it reaches the other end of the screen.On my scene I have some action script which is acting as a timer. After a set time I want it to increase the speed of the movie clips, making the game become "harder". I seem to be able to manipulate the alpha of my movie clips but can't seem to trigger the speed increase.If i use a setInterval it seems to trigger the speed increase but it does it each time the movie clip is duplicated (so the delay resets, it does not change once and apply throughout)However, where I am changing the alpha I cannot seem to change the speed.
View 2 RepliesHow can i detect mouse speed with AS 3.0, and then put speed limit? Also can i use speed var for anything else? *sorry for my bad English, i live in non-english-speaking country*
View 9 RepliesHow can I detect a PC speed our cpu speed with actionscript?
View 1 RepliesI am working on a very simple game in Flash. I want to make all the animations framerate agnostic, so that I can change the framerate without affecting the flow and speed of the game.I read somewhere that if you want to do that, you simply create a Timer object and attach an event listener to this timer.
What if I have many objects that have to listen to the same timer? See the code to understand what I am trying to do. At this stage nothing breaks, but the event does not fire.Here is the Main class, the one that runs on swf execution:
public class Main extends MovieClip {
private static var _stage:Stage;
private static var _timer:Timer;
[code]....
What is the difference between Timer.stop() and Timer.reset() functions because it seems that the 2 functions do the same thing? I image Timer.stop() to stop the timer and when Timer.start() is called the timer starts from where it stopped. For example, if I have a 3 sec. timer (3000 ms). If I stop the timer after 2.5 sec. and start the timer again, I would expect the timer to expire/trip within .5 sec.
View 1 RepliesI have a ActionScript 3.0 project and I have a timer that is running on 1000 millisecond intervals. I would like to delay this timer for 1500 milliseconds perform an action and start the timer again after the delay. I thought I could do this easily, but I'm having trouble, would it be better to stop the timer and perform the action and then listen for the action to be completed to start the timer again?
View 1 RepliesIn my case, the timer I make doesn't reduce its time whenever a function is called. What code will I change or add in order to reduce the time in my timer? [code]At this point the timer.start(); is placed on a frame so that the timer starts as it enters the frame.
View 1 RepliesThe document doesn't mention anything about this:[URL]..
View 1 Repliesresource that can make high res screenshots of a swf? Preferably free, but totally willing to pay.
View 5 RepliesI'm running Flash CS4 on a laptop and find it gets sluggish. I find when I restart my computer, I can work at a good speed for a while, but eventually it becomes very laggy - why is this?
Can I dump the cache files or something to simulate the restart? I've reduced the undo history to 10 - any other tips for CS4 on a mediocre machine?
I have created a mc that is randomly generated using this code:
Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("cloudholder_mc",this.getNextHighestDepth());
for(i=0;i<4;i++){
[code]....
I am working on a small educational game which is made in Flash and ported on Android via AIR. I'm having hard time getting desired FPS (which is 20) on Android device (It's Vizio tableturl]....).Main problem is score card which is 1024x768 movie clip with 45 frames. Earlier we had vector graphic movie clip which totally messed up performance, now we have converted all frames into JPEGs and we're getting average of ~8 FPS when score card comes.
how to get higher FPS? I personally think that score card is very big in resolution. But am I missing any tricks or special method for mobile device rendering?I was thinking to try Blitting... has anyone tried and got really positive results outta it?
I'm an art student and have produced some pieces in Flash 8. Now I've been asked for a high-quality (i.e. a letter-sized print at 600dpi) image, but the animation uses transparency.
I've been able to generate vector-based PDFs that I can blow up to as big as I want with no quality loss, but the transparency dissappears.
When I conserve the transparency, I get something that'll print at about 1/10 the size I need at 600dpi.
If it's not possible from the Flash Player (or from Flash 8), then does anyone know of an alternate program that'll do this for me (preferably free or cheap)?
I have a flash presentation thats for a supermarket TV screen. Its big in file size 9.6MB. When I go file/export/export movie to quicktime and use the animation settings the file plays but leaves trail lines behind, skips frames and looks crap.
The quicktime settings I've used are either:
Animation
Quality Best
Millions of colours
All Key frames
24fps
or
DV - PAL
Frame rate 24fps
Quality Best
I need it to look high quality but I am not sure what settings to use.
How to provide a video quality as Low, Medium, High and HD in flash actionscript
View 3 RepliesSo I recently switchs to a new computer. Installed flash and got everything up and running. On the old computer, I was forced to set the jvm.ini to use -Xmx512M in order to run the application (it's kinda big) But now, if I set it 512, flash will not open... I get the Java enviroment error.
Now, I lower the xmx value more and more and more until flash FINALLY opens without an error... I load up my application and when I try to run it, I get the java memory heap error and it tells me to adjust the jvm.ini file. Anyone know how I can get flash cs5.5 on a windows 7 64bit machine with 8 gigs of ram to open with a larger jvm.ini value?
i am currently doing my final year project. I am developing games. I have problems with the scoring part. I need help to do high scores using text files. Can you please help teach me step by step how to store high scores.
View 1 Repliesfind a piece of code that creates a high score list of say, the 10 best scores for a Flash game, and stores it inside the .fla. (Is this even possible?)All I found was the following file: http:[url]...(source fla http:url...)But when I try to ctrl-enter it from Flash 8, the program hangs and the swf just won't open...
I'm aware of the fact it'd be much handier via PHP and a MySQL database, but I'm making a game for a contest in which it isn't allowed to use any additional files (also no txt files) next to the main game swf .