I don't need a website designed, just a flash 'movie'-style animation (2 min. approx. duration)I've created static content in Ai CS4 that I just need to be animated, and I could supply people with a storyboard. Similar look to the animation on this site: URL.. but with more complex animations and graphics.[code]
View 5 RepliesI have 6 movie clip symbols on my timeline and each movie clip symbol has a short animation contained within itself. When I bring it to the timeline, they all animate simultaneously. I want them play sequentially but when I play them in on different layers in different keyframes it doesn't work.
View 5 RepliesAs part of my brief, I have to create a small flash movie that will load a random quote (which is actually a jpeg image), fade it in to view, display it for a length of time (probably only 3-5 seconds), fade it out and then load another random quote. Is this possible to do, purely using actionscript? I can randomly load an image - I used the "Random Background Image" tutorial on this site - but getting the fading/pausing/fading then moving to another quote has got me stumped.
The images are imported into their own swf file that is loaded into a placeholder movie on the html page. I tried adding in a for loop to the individual swf and the placeholder movie, to loop through alpha property of the image (just to fade up for the moment, till I get it working) - but this didn't work at all. I could use tweens for the fading, but this could end up a mess and more work than it needs to be as there could be quite a lot of quotes added over time.
I've made a little file with some signpost movie clips that do a little animation on mouseover and mouseout. I then wanted to set the text on each of them via actionscript i.e. sign1.sign_text.text = "Checklist: Before you arrive"; etc. This code puts all the right text on the signs when it loads, however as soon as you mouseover it, the text reverts back to the original placeholder text in the movieclip (when it gets to the second keyframe). How can I keep the reference to the text it has at the beginning of the movie clip?
View 2 RepliesI have been trying to create a die that acts as a 60 second timer in Flash CS4 using Actionscript 3.0. This involves creating a die and a dynamic textbox that counts from 60 to 0. Both of these parts of the project are fine, however I need to animate the textbox in 3D space to coincide with the die rolling. I believe it is not possible to animate a textbox (from online reading and also trying to do it myself by playing about with Flash) so I have loaded the textbox into a movieclip. As I'm having issues with this I thought it would be good practice to split the project into sub-projects in order to identify the problem. Here is the actionscript 3.0 I have used for the timer/countdown clock:
var newTime:Loader = new Loader();
newTime.load(new URLRequest("SWFs/timer.swf"));
clock_mc.addChild(newTime); //clock_mc is an instance of movieClipContainer which is a new
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I have a html file that is referencing a swf.This swf, in turn, is referencing a php file to get prices etc, and display them inside the swf animation.This works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but for some reason won't work in IE.[URL]
View 10 RepliesHello all. I've been writing AS1 and 2 for a loooong time but I'm just starting to get into AS3 and it's... challenging. Making my brain think differently when Flash is still Flash is tricky but I'm coming along. This is my first piece of AS3 that I'm putting together and it loads an image, creates a movie clip for it to live in and then repeats the process 9 more times. The dynamically created clips are supposed to be staggered from the bottom left to the top right. However, when I run the code it only shows the final iteration in the top right.
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...and his code is almost exactly the same except for the image load. I left the image loading code out of this post since it works perfectly. There's a listener in the image load that triggers when completed and fires the function below:
Code:
var cardNum:int = 1;
function imageLoaded(event:Event):void {
var myMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
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How do I escape double quote " in XML when I load it in Flash? I use createTextField and I have created a Font in the Library. I use TextFormat to embed the font. When just use " in my XML file, it will show " in my flashmovie, why is that?
I tried " and " ... doesn't work?
Code:
<gerecht>
<nummer>82</nummer>
<naam>Gerecht "Naam" </naam>
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I have an XML driven Flash site and can't get quote marks to work in Flash 6. They show up fine in version 7 and 8 of the flash player. Here's what I'm doing:
My XML file: (added line breaks just for this example)
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how to get this working in Flash 6? We really want to use REAL quote marks.
I'm trying to populate a Flash quote system with XML but as try as I may I'm unable to get the subsuboption (like Jewelcase --> Insert --> Glossy finish) to work.
Basically this quoting system has been dumped on my desk and I have till Monday to update it (I'm a graphic designer not a flash developer and I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing!).
The AS Code is:
Code:
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
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Now I can get it to compile, but when it goes to pull the data it will work upto the Suboptions and then any code further on fails to load (so I suspect there is something wrong with either the XML or the AS tying to the XML).
My Newest Animations Are Not Animating. They are running in the timeline but are displaying as static images as animated shockwave files.
View 1 RepliesI'm building a retro airport scene and would like a marquee that reacts like a flip clock: [img] [URL] In theory, when the user clicks on the "Arrivals/Departures" screen, the entire screen turns into this flip clock-looknig screen and all the letters and numbers form when the machine gets to their letter. The entire animation will only last a couple of seconds, so the user is not waiting on the computer to deliver all the information, but the different letters take different amounts of time to load depending on where they are in the alphabet.
View 2 RepliesI am working on a project where I need to show a wooden board and have the user pick a place on the board and somewhat realistically (at least believable) simulate the board breaking and shattering at that point. The final product will need to run on a mobile platform so performance is an issue.I have already experimented a bit and have a movie clip board which is composed of predetermined pieces and I used a tween to move the pieces apart. The main problem is that the way the board breaks and where it breaks are predetermined
View 2 RepliesThe character will then be moving along a circular path. (A motion guide)ow I need to set it so that it plays the animation of moving up-left when the character is moving in the up-left direction and load the coresponding animations depending on the direction the character is moving. How do I go about doing this?
View 3 RepliesI'm a beginner at this, so this may sound like a dumb question, but I don't have the time to figure it out on my own.I'm trying to get a group of symbols to remain in the configuration that they are in, but rotate around a fixed point, and actually make them move in this circular path instead of a straight line.
View 1 RepliesI'm having problems. I'm not sure what you call it but I tried in the title. In a previous flash portfolio I did this: It would have menu items. I'd be on the home page, click the work page and it would animate home page out then animate the work page in. I did that all manually with lots of frames and lots of symbols in order to anticipate who would click what and when. Not the best way to explain it.
I do have examples though. But I'm hoping and believe there is a simple way to do this with Actionscript 2.0. And I wish to do this again but with 8 menu items, I don't want to do 7 frames each one they may click, etc. So is there just an easy way of telling Flash to animate a certain movie clip out on scene 1 before it moves onto the next page I'm telling it to go to? In other words, like this: [URL] How if you click Contact after being on the home page, it animates that out THEN animates contact in.
I've made 3 different symbols of a running Super Mario -- the first one is his first running frame in the Super Mario Bros. video game, the second one is his second running frame, etc. I would like to create a motion tween of these 3 symbols, so it looks like he's running from one point of the screen to the other. I'm unsure of how I would go ahead to accomplish this.
View 5 RepliesI've got an array with four movie clips that I would like to move onto the screen separately (the first one, then the second, etc). Is there a way to do that?
This is the code I have to move the whole array onto the screen:
arrCSnav:Array = [cs1_Button, cs2_Button, cs3_Button, cs4_Button]
for(i=0;i<arrCSnav.length;i++) {
var enterTween:Tween = new GCSafeTween(arrCSnav[i], "x", Strong.easeOut, arrCSnav[i].x,arrCSnav[i].x+180,12,false);
}
I need to create a movie from a photoshop file that pops up upon entering a site I work for. I was wondering the best way to do this. The movie does not need any buttons or interactivity. It just needs to show a simply process of going through necessary steps within the site. I know how to insert check marks shown below, I just don't know how to subtly highlight each box as if it was being scrolled over. Below is the file I need to turn into a flash movie
Attachments: pop up trnasition1.jpg (131.6 K)
I am a student and I use CS4 on a Mac on one of the schools computers. One of the animation projects I am working I need to animate a music video. To do this I calculated out the BPM of the song and set the frame rate at 23.3 FPS so that I would have 20 Frames between beats. Then to have a visual representation of the timing I set a layer that has a red dot blink for 2 frames every 20 frames starting on the first beat.
With it set up like this and I run the animation in Flash it keeps time correctly and works. However, when I test the video the time is off. I tried changing the frame rate to 60fps as an arbitrary number to see if adjusting the frame rate had any affect of the test file but when I tested the video at 60fps it did not run any faster than before. I exported the video to a SWF and MOV file but it was still off.
I'm trying to create a wrapper written in ActionScript2, which loads a second AS2 swf then when this loaded swf has finished animating the wrapper will load a second swf. This is the code I have to load the first swf:
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I am well versed in Photoshop and getting somewhere in Illustrator, so the Adobe learning curve is not a huge factor for me. I have not, however, done much work in Flash (or any, really). I want to create what should be a pretty simple animation and I'm wondering what the best approach is. Also, I've never done any ActionScript work but do have extensive development experience. I have access to Flash Professional and Catalyst, PS, AI - all of Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium. I would like to draw/design in either PS or AI something that looks like a photo booth.
I want to animate some photos being printed out and falling out into the tray or whatever... just like what you see when a strip of four photos prints out in one of those booths at the mall or the movie theater. I want to do it a few times with a few different pictures. It would be easiest to just "hard code" or embed which pictures I want in the movie, but if I could eventually do some ActionScripting to just pull all images in a directory or (best yet) from the Flickr API that would be really awesome too. I just need to know where to get started. Should I try starting with FP or import some AI into FC?
how to animate a piston like the one above in flash cs5? Should I use bones? if so how? At the moment the only way I can see to do it is to step through one frame at a time and move the linkage rod and piston into the correct posistion.
View 2 RepliesI've been scouring the internet for the past hour or so in search of how to do this. It's very simple, but every example seem to want me to bring a loaded movie clip, or trace mouse position. I don't need that! Basically I have a button that when clicked comes to the front (using behaviours), moves to a new position, scales and then I want every other button behind it to blur. Obviously I want them to blur gradually to keep the flow going. Here's my current code so you can see where its going:
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How to or have run across a tutorial where you can add quote of the day to website?
View 4 RepliesCreate a flash application which will be displayed on a web page which will read from a list of text inside an XML file and display them randomly with fade-in fade-out effects and also at random positions.My current approach to the problem is using a Dynamic Text Area which will read from the xml file, however I only got to the stage where the swf will read the xml file. Trying to get the fade effect and the positioning effect is proving very difficult for me.The sample XML I am working with:
<tag>
<tagline>Global Jobs Pact</tagline>
<tagline>Green Jobs</tagline>
<tagline>Decent Work</tagline>[code]......
I have a flash front end that displays information and is capable of building MySQL queries and handing them off to PHP via loadVars. PHP handles the dirty work of connecting to the database, executing the queries, and returning any results. So my problem is with single quotes. In flash I can build the query string with single quotes easy enough, but for some reason php keeps doubling them up and messing up the query.
Here is an example of the flash code:
ActionScript Code:
var send_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var load_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
load_lv.onLoad = function(bSuccess){
if(bSuccess){
trace(this.output);
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The problem is that the sql statement that php is trying to execute looks like this:
insert into mytable (field1, field2) values (''value1'', ''value2'')
Where each single quote has been turned into two single quotes for some reason.
I'm using the quote randomizer from kirupa, but the same couple lines out text seems to arise far too frequently. any ideas? I was thinking that i could remove the random part of the script, and just make it go from 1-100 in order,
current AS:
/****************************************
**Random Quotes Script*******************
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i want a quote to appear in the dynamic text box but obviously you cant just write it as it thinks its text data, but im thinking its " but how do impliment it, i want a quote before and after +username_ti.text+ _parent.user_mc.user_ti.text = "Welcome you are currently logged in as " + username_ti.text +"
View 3 RepliesWhat's the best way to handle the " symbol, dynamically written to XML output from a PHP upon request, and then pulled into Flash, parsed, and assigned to a String?Should the entire node's data be wrapped as CDATA in the XML document? But when when it gets assigned as a String in Flash, will Flash freak out because there's a " in it?Should PHP write escape characters into the node's text to escape quotes, ampersands, gt/lt, and apostrophes (and then will Flash handle these ok?)? Or should PHP convert all unsafe characters into their HTML equivalent?What about the British pound symbol? We're using UTF-8, so is there a safe way to handle this?
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