I would like to be able to create a set of standard text animations for different length bulleted lists, headings etc and then feed these animations (probably with xml?) to create unique mc's.
View 2 Repliesi am totally new to flash and want to ask Is it possible to create complete flash animations in .net platoform with C# by using the flash APIs. Can anyone explain how it is done(which apis tools needed) and provide/link to some of the examples.
View 3 RepliesI need to create animations fron a set of jpegs. I can layer selections in photoshop; create symbols in Flash, although When I open a multi-layer psd in FL, don't always get multi-layers in FL. More importantly, what graphic/symbol formats are required for the typical animation techniques (eg, different tweens, bones, puppet).
View 1 RepliesIs there any Actionscript-C# API/Libraries available so that i can create a flash file via my C# program and manipulates the content of that (Ex : Add a motion tween animation to it). I have seen something similar to this in adwords.google.com (to create promotions/ads)
View 1 Repliescan walk me through something like what this site has for its interactive menu? I don't even know what that kind of interaction is called, so I don't know what to search for.
View 3 RepliesIve read the transitions tutorial and understand how that works, however, the site that I am building uses actionscript for its animation rather than timeline effects (for the most part). creating smooth transitions between external swf when the animations are done in actionscript?
Right now in my external .swf I have two frames, the first frame is the intro the second is the outro. The only difference between the two frames is the actionscript is reversed from fading in to fading out (etc.) on the second. There is no midframe per say, it just stops on the first frame because there is a stop(); on it. When the user clicks out of that section it just moves and plays the second frame. This works, however I fear that that method will get me into trouble later on. Is there a better way of doing this?
I'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 RepliesI am a web designer and I do like to hand code using jquery however, I think it would be much faster to use gui applications like flash to create animations especially on the fly as well as support for writing and editing source code.
View 1 RepliesI've recently began using Flash, and came across an error which I'm afraid I've yet to resolve.While animating some text with the use of masks, it becomes blurred, like this: URL..As you can see, the first text - videos - has no problems, while the second text appears blurred. In the animation, the same happens.
View 1 Repliesto get my text animations on top of my FLV?I added a component that has all the play, pause and all that stuff but I can't seem to get my text animations opn top.
View 1 RepliesIm having a tought time here with my text thats loaded from a xml file. It displays fine if its just in a movie clip thats just in one frame, but once i try to animate with the text ( like a side scrolling news header ) the text doesnt display. How am i supposed to work with the text?
View 8 RepliesI need to make a tool (in flash) that people who do NOT have flash can use to create some artwork (graphs and lines at particular angels in particular) and then export the artwork in a format that designers who DO have flash can use in flash for animations. We're trying to cut out a step where our content folks give our designers graphs that need to be hand traced in Flash. Are there any third party plugins that would allow a swf to generate and EPS, AI, or FLA perhaps?
View 1 RepliesSo here I have a code which gives a feedback after the code is copied to clipboard ,but after someone use it once it stop working.
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How do I turn a value into something i can use without the "-" negative value if there is one.
I have an "imageLoaderHost" movieclip and I need it's x position to be usable wherever its at. for instance:
if imageLoaderHost is at -1258(x position), I need "b1" to go to 1258 (without the "-" as you can see).
I'm trying to make a tile-based AS3 game that uses PNG images as the base for maps that loads them from the library and converts the data to an array with each pixel of data being an individual tile. Essentially, if I had a 128x128 pixel PNG with say, green pixels being converted to "GRASS" in my array, I could then cycle through the array and add tiles to the map movieclip accordingly. I've looked at the ByteArray class and I can't seem to decode the data into a usable format.
View 1 RepliesIn my quest to learn ActionScript 3.0 I have stumbled across another situation where I know what I need to do, but just can't figure out how to do. I have written code to animate a menu with 3 buttons. These 3 buttons reside in a seperate class file known as MenuButtons.as and I am animating them within my Main.as file which builds the application and places the relevant details onto the stage.So in my Main.as file I have written the animation code that I would like to use to animate the buttons. Whenever a button is clicked, an event is dispatched which a handler listeners for then executes the relevant function. So the function for animating my 3 buttons looks like this (bear in mind that the buttons are arranged in a place holder in MenuButtons.as which in turn is loaded in a new MovieClip in the Main.as file)[code]I also tween the logo from here too. It works fine which is great, but is there a way I can make this code more simpler? I may not be able to and I have tried to find my answer online but alas I cannot find what I am looking for.
I am loving how I am learning something new each day and by building up slowly I am learning more functionality and broadening my knowledge of ActionScript (although some of it is very confusing!)Is there any good websites out there that can help? I have a subscription with Lynda.com but i find that their explanations can sometimes be hard to understand. I love text based tutorials where I can follow at my own pace.
im trying to check time, but check to see if the time is within a range.
for example, check to see if time is between 12:50pm, and 30 minutes later (1:20pm)
also, i want to be able to calculate that difference (12:50 + :30 = 1:20)
and also how to hande getting the time range? ie. (currentTime >12:50 && currentTime < 1:20)
Within a script, I move to a keyframe where a movie clip exists. The movie clip is attached to an Actionscript 2.0 class. Once the movie clip exists, I want to be able to give it some initialization settings, but it seems they are not available until the next frame. For example, let's say in a script I say:
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I've got a .txt file hosted on a freewebs, which my actionscript gets some variables for (for easy updating of statistics).
I want to do be able to do math in actionscript with these numbers I'm calling up from the .txt file, but the problem is that when I call up the variables, they are recognized as a string, instead of integers.
How would I convert the string to an integer in actionscript, or write the number in the .txt so that it's recognized as an integer.
in this site we of course need to to display non-latin characters like etc.we decided to go for the Minion Font (on Mac) because it includes all possible Glyphs.no i embedded the font on the library and used it via menuitem_font =new Minion()but the special characters are still not displayed.also when i do trace(menuitem_font.hasGlyph)i get "false"
View 3 RepliesHow could one set up a movie clip that has usable buttons in it? If i understand correctly, the movieclips actions will override all the button actions...? For the purposes of my project, I need a MC that ive set up to loop across the screen with my buttons on it.
View 3 Repliesgot past the last problem i had. now i have a series of bitmaps stored in an array... actual bitmap data, not external image references..
View 1 RepliesI am working on a presentation that has multiple scenes each having say 100 frames. Every 10 frames there is content on the stage, i.e. a 'slide'. There are left and right arrow buttons to take the user of the presentation forward and backward - much like a powerpoint presentation.Many of the 'slides' contain another button (instance name infoBTN) that can be rolled-over, and when this happens an info bubble pops up to display some information in the form of a graphic (instance name infoBubble).This operation works fine for one button, but I don't really want to have to call a new function and variable name and have new instance names on each subsequent frame that features a similar button with an identical operation.
how can I call the function just once and re-use it over and over again? There will only ever be one button of this nature on a given frame,This is the working code I have on the timeline for this particular frame:
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// INFO BUTTON MOUSE EVENT
var fadeIn:Tween = new Tween(infoBubble, 'alpha', Regular.easeOut, 0, 1, 0.75, true);
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I am creating multiple bitmaps within a loop, and placing them inside their own MovieClip. I then have another MovieClip in the Library which I am calling and putting inside the MovieClip generated for the bitmap. Alas I cannot get multiple instances to work of the MovieClip from the Library. I think it must be my syntax in the following code..
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for(i=0;i<10;i++){
this['bmp'+i] = new BitmapData(etc,etc)
this['box'+i] = new Bitmap( this['bmp'+i] );
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Im character rigging so im making nested symbols.i was wondering how do i take these nested symbols and create a re-usable symbol library and import these into different files for use.
View 4 RepliesWe can auto-generate flex-confix xml file from flash-builder so to provide users that want to compile project on there own would be capable of doing such thing with out buying FB. So we use something like -dump-config slotConfig.xml as flex compiler argment. This generates a file for us... with lots of detailed comments like this one I generated from that project:
<flex-config>
<!-- benchmark: output performance benchmark-->
<!-- benchmark usage:
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anywhoo i have minimal actionscript training tho i know a bit... im trying to make an Item system were i make an object like a key or a helmet... and if i collide with it it disapears. and i get the item, then somewhere put _root.playerMC.standing.gotoAndPlay ("item"); .. maybe in the item i dunno..
so basically i set my characters up like playerMC then in that animation i have a body head arms and legs.. and in those i have different items equipped on each body part on each frame how should i set this up!!!.. i cant call those items deep in the animation the farthest i can go is like Playermc.gotoandplay ("walk") when i try to do like.. playermc.walking.head.gotoandplay ("item") it doesnt work..
I am gonna connect two swf file on the same domain. I actually want to connect button1 on swf1 to frame1 on swf2 and then the same like that button2 to frame2... I think localconnection class is usable for that I am open to other ideas, it's very simple I guess but I am novice at this and this is my first job.
View 1 RepliesI have many countries like netherland,italy,beligum etc.. I am creating empty movieClip, inside that empty movieClip am creating dynamic text field and assigning the different countries text.. but that font is not dispalying as such in the text Field..
View 9 RepliesI like to know an easy way to create a text autoscroll (vertical) that worked when the text was loaded from another text file. it can use for news/site update. see the attachment.
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