I want to make a background in an animation that looks like stars going by as a spaceship flies forward.I would like to make stars appear in the distance and then zoom by, very much like the windows screensaver that shows a black screen with stars continually moving toward the viewer.
View 3 RepliesI have been tyring to export an animated banner, in animated.gif format. it's a simple animated text with no gradients. it should go on top of a graphic which has some gradients and is multi-coloured and with effects (the colours are similar to the one/i used in the page) as you can see here the text looks a bit funny.url...
View 3 RepliesAm I completely hallucinating or what ? That's several years I'm working with Flash, and today, i want to do the simplest animation ever, and it just doesn't work....I want to mask an animated clip with an animated mask (a shape animation), but every time the mask arrives at a keyframe, the clip restarts to the frame 1 !!I added a piece of code to see at which keyframe it is blocked, and at every mask keyframe, the code says 'TypeError: Error #1009: null property..
View 2 Repliesi am trying to create an animated button, using a Movie Clip.
1. I create a Rectangle with a fill.
2. I convert it to a Symbol (Movie)3. Double Click on the graphic to create it's on Timeline.4. Why do i then need to convert to a symbol again?It will not animate unless i convert that timeline button again.
How to create a class from an Animated Buttons in AS3? I learn the video name "Introduction to OOP" with the code AS 2 here:
Code: Select allclass ButtonClass extends MovieClip {
public function ButtonClass() {
this.onRollOver = this.over;
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I don't know how to write it in AS3.
I am a very basic user on adobe flash, basically all I use Flash for at this moment is to create animated gif or basic SWF website banners. The problem that I am encountering at this moment is that when I export to an animated GIF the image quality becomes pixelated (see sample image below), where if i export the same work to an SWF it appears normal, I have tried several different combinations on the settings when saving the GIF but everytime I get the same results.
I would only use SWF formats but our website does not support SWF in every section.
Can it be done in flash with some of the glow filters? Or is this probably being created in something like After Effects or Motion and then being pulled in as JPEG StillsI've looked through some tutorial sites, but most of the animation tutorials are pretty basic... and I'm not sure what to really call the effect...making searching for tutorials or forum posts a bit tricky
View 5 RepliesI am currently creating animated buttons that have a movie clip inside them (including tweens). I created a button and copied this six times. I would like to change the colour of each individual button, but when I do this it changes the colours of all the buttons. How can I do this so it changes the individual the colour of a single button.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to create a simple animated Analog Meter that responds to my input slider control. Is any inbuilt component available for flash pro cs5?
View 5 Replies[URL]..the animated glowing effect on the buttons. One, I can't get any mouse events to respond in the skin. I can't seem to find others with this problem. In the below code, startAnimation is never getting called when a mouse over occurs, but the event is apparently getting registered. To test this code, simply add skinClass="ButtonSkin" to a button declaration in your main application, the code below being the ButtonSkin.mxml file.
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EDIT I found out why mouse events weren't firing. The button apparently has mouseChildren false by default, which specifically prevents events from firing lower than itself. Using parent.mouseChildren = true; in the constructor fixes this issue. On to the next part of the question: continuous animation.
My problem is that I have made the tutorial named "Creating Animated Buttons" but when I set the text (b1.buttText.buttonText.text = "portfolio";) de sample text is disappeared and the new one doesn't come. I have traced the variable b1.buttText.buttonText.text and it is the "portfolio".
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to implement a dynamic starfield into the game blaster mines (chapter 11) from the book "The Essential Guide To Flash Games" (from Jeff and Steve Fulton) but had no success yet. I built a separate starManager.as class and a BasicBlitArrayStar.as class for it. Also I'm using a pool for inactive and active stars (basically I think it's the same method when building the projectiles or rather particles except that the stars move only when the mouse moves (using the same direction).
If u don't know what I mean check out the parallax starfield from [URL]:
freeactionscript.com/2010/06/endless-starfield-parallax-scrolling
Currently it's not working. The inactive pool is full of stars but when I try to draw them on the background I can see absolutely no star. Even when there is an active star available it doesn't draw it on the background. The goal is a starfield that uses similar techniques from the framework like particles and projectiles do. I have some things in mind like getting the child index for creating different star layers but currently I'm not able to realize it properly.
Here are some code excerpts:
starManager.as:
package {
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import com.framework_mod.src.BlitArrayAsset;
import com.framework_mod.src.BasicBlitArrayStar;
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Is it possible to generate a starfield that can be parallaxed with the mouse? Star is a movieClip in my library which is set to export with actionscript
Current code to generate a static starfield
//import mx. :: I don't recall this exact line of code, but it imports the mx Tween class
import mx.Transitions.*;
var stars:Array = new Array();
var MAX_STARS = 250; // how many stars are allowed on stage at once
var MAX_STAR_SCALE = 4; // the maximum size of a star
for(var i=0; i<MAX_STARS;i++)
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I am trying to create a tool tip for my app, that will be a simple text that contain information about the button I am over. I would like the text to start with animation, and after animation follow the mouse. Please enter this site, you can see here an example : [URL]. See that when you enter a country, it starts with a animation from the right, and then follows the user's mouse position until he exits the country. I am quite new to AS, I will be very glad if someone can explain what is the best approach for this. I am able to make the animation with the tween class, but was not able to make it follow the mouse after the animation ends. On the other hand I was also able making it follow my mouse but was not able to make it start with animation.
View 6 RepliesI'm creating an animated background/flash animation, in short I have several tweened pieces all moving/swinging around and I want them all to loop at the end of their individual loops. Each piece is on its own layer) I have been using gotoAndPlay(2); (I'm using a preloader so frame 2 is the start). The problem is (If I'm correct here) is the first layer to reach the end runs the "go to and play" resetting everything!. I want each layer to act independantly. Is there a different version of gotoAndPlay(2); that will work or am I looking at things like nested animations/importing individual fla's ect (all of which goes over my head).
View 4 Repliesim tryin to rotate this movieclip of a starfield but when i use _rotation i get this flickering effect every second or two of rotation see [URL] left and right keys change rotation hold down a key and you will see what i mean ,is there a way to prevent this flickering here is the code i used
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I've developed a touch screen flash application for a sneakers (shoe) shop. It has a 'find a shoe' section, which isn't causing problems, and an 'about' section, which is.The about section is a heavily animated history of sneaker culture. It's animated via the timeline, not via AS3. The problem is that with prolonged use of the about section, idle CPU usage grows, and memory usage grows, eventually making the app unusably slow.
I've made a 'minified' app that does nothing other than create/delete 50 instances of my 'about' movie clip - it doesn't even add those instances to the stage. I've cut basically all code out of the 'about' class, which is shown below:
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For my project development i want to do animation on jpg image.
View 5 RepliesI've created a small banner ad and need to export it as an animated gif. The problem is, when I open the gif after exporting it, there's no animation. The way the animation is set up is 1 frame on the main timeline, and a scrolling movie clip as the background. There is no actionscript at all in the file.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to put an animated gif behind a flash banner when people who don't have flash compatible browsers (iPhone, etc...) come to our website they don't see a big space with nothing there.
I tried making the gif a background for the cell that the flash movie is in, but I can see portions of the animated gif behind the flash movie, even if I set them to the same dimensions.
CS4, AS3.Windows XP SP3.I've created a pretty simple flash animation with some text that fades in and moves around a bit. Nothing fancy. It runs just fine both locally and on my client's site. I need to turn it into an animated gif so that non-flash viewers will see the animation. But I can't seem to get it to come out right. It needs to have a transparent background and it needs to run just once. Like I said, all that runs fine as an SWF.
When I choose the export option in the file menu (export movie as gif), it does export and I can run the gif but the background is definitely not transparent and the thing loops continuously. Yes, I've checked the "transparent" checkbox and also set the repetitions to 1. Neither of those settings do anything.I also tried "publishing" the gif. That's even worse. The resultant animation doesn't even resemble my SWF. It's a blocky mess when it runs. It does appear to have a transparent background but it loops over and over and again it's a blocky mess (not sure how else to explain that).
The whole thing is just about 10 layers of different lines of text that are tweened in various ways to get the effect I need.You can see the animation on the right hand side of this page: www.ssrights.com. It's the one that says "FREE! Consultation..."
PS: The gif is not in place. I currently have it set to just show a static image if someone does not have flash.
I am created a animtaion in flash AS2 no coding. Now i facing a problem because that nimation i want to GIF animated format. Anybody know how can i do that.
View 4 Repliesstill have the button link work? And to keep the file size low?...from .fla file to anim gif.....[URL]
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know where I could go and learn how-to build a gauge that will animate under certain conditions? Preferably in AS3. Not sure where to start on this one.
View 2 RepliesI have an 800x800px button within a 800x800 stage, in the up state only 200px of the button are visible, the others 600px remains out of the stage, the over state is a movie clip with a spring-like animation that brings the button to the left to a viewable area of 600 pixels (while now only 200px are left out of the stage). the down state is very the same than the over (without animation, so no changes in size at all).
The problem here is how i set my hit area: if I set it to be the size of the up state then the button works the way it's supposed to work but if i move the mouse just i little to the left (just out of the hit area, remember, same size as the up state) then is considered not to be on the over state so i come back to my initial 200px button. By the way if i set the hit area to match the size of the button once it has completed it animation on over state (600px of viewable button) I fix this issue but then I will click the button even when I'm out of the UP state.It's possible to place a movie clip inside the hit area so that it always mach the motion of the movie clip inside the over state?[URL]This is an early prototype of the site but you'll see what i mean, my buttons are the numbered tabs, when you roll over there you'll see they become animated but i planning to make this animation much more exaggerated and then is when the problem come...
When I publish the animation as an animated GIF, not only is the animation slower, but the colors lost their transparency, and the weight blows up 50 times.Here are the two:[URL]
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to create a small animated graphic but under gif. format looks terribleI am missing any trick or should I try other format (which)?
View 5 RepliesI want to make the text moving like this one here : http:[url]....How do I make it or where I can find tutorial to learn?
View 2 RepliesI am having a problem creating an animated btn in flash, I simple want it to do fades and blink several times.I have created a movie clip with frames 1-20 where frame 1-10 is in the normal state and 10-20 is the mouse over state with the effects.In my action controls I have a stop on frame 1 and a stop on frame 10 and a gotoAndPlay("Repeat"); on frame 20
View 3 RepliesI would like to create a xml driven animated bar and pie chart. How can i create in flash?Is flash is the right tool to use or should i go for any other tool for such animated charts.
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