Flash :: Animated Navigation

Need Some Help With An Animated Navigation Bar...
Can anyone point me to a tutorial that would help me achieve this? Or maybe someone has already done something similar that I can use as a guide? Thanks in advance.

They want to do a very basic flash navigation where the arrows follow the nav options, then stop when you click on the link. This will be a glide across the line, not just a rollover effect where the triangle shows up and then disappears. This nav will have three parts to it:

1) the subnav that appears at the top with the lines dividing it -there will be no line with the triangle underneath

2) a third level nav that appears ONLY after you have selected a subnav item. Once these appear, the line will show up with the triangle pointing up

3) a forth level that appears only after you have selected a third
level item. Once these appear, the line will show up with the triangle pointing down and following the items as you roll over them.

Animated Navigation
I've been trying to figure out how to get a menu/navigation system to move or change positions when a button is pressed.

I attempted this by using the folowing script:

subNav_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(move){
this.nextFrame();
}else{
this.prevFrame();
}
};

This script actually works. But it only moves backwards and forwards. What I'm trying to get it to do is move from postion 1 to position 2, 3, 4 and back. So forth and so on.

A great example of this is a site by the name of Working Title Films
http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/

Any help with this would be greatly appreiciated!

Thanks in advance.

Mills

Animated Navigation
Hey,

I am trying to create a animated menu. Take a look at the attached file and click 'Event' and you will understand how i want it to work. In the example i've just added a scene 2 and when you click 'Event' it will go to scene 2 and play. But how will make the navigation work and know where in the menu you are and from where to where to animate?

Animated Navigation
Hi,

Im doing a webpage for a client, and they would like the navigation to move from page to page. For example if I were to click on one of the links the whole navigation menu would move to a new location, if I click another link there, it would go to a completely different location.

Now I have tried to do this many different ways but figured that actionscripting would probably be the best answer, only I am not super familiar with animating with actionscript.

Could anyone direct me as to how, on(release) animate to new location?

Animated Navigation Bar
Here the deal...
I am trying to create an interactive navigation bar.

The contents of the navigation bar are exposed with a roll over action, triggered when the mouse moves over a hotspot.

The problem is that I can't seem to get the buttons inside the navigation bar to work without conflicting with the hotspot that triggers the initial animation. Make sense?

Don't understand the question? have a look at the navigation on:

the url has removed

Animated Navigation
I am working on a few buttons for my companies new site.

When you rollOver the button it will play a intro animation.

When you rollOut of the button it will reverse the intro animation, code taken from the tutorial on here.

When you onPress the button it will load an external swf file and play a second animation.

When you rollOut after you press the button it will stay in the second animation state until you click a different button in the navigation.

Code:
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (rewind == true) {
prevFrame();
}
};
this.onRollOver = function() {
rewind = false;
play();
};
this.onPress = function() {
currSection = "services";
gotoAndPlay("cicked");
};
this.onRollOut = function() {
if (currSection != "services") {
gotoAndPlay("transitionEnd");
} else {
(rewind=true);
}
};
I have been working with this but i can't figure out where i have gone wrong. I need to add the containerMC for it to load into but i cant figure it out.

Thanks

Animated Menu Navigation
I wanted to use an animated menu to place my navigation to a minimum on the screen. I want the menu to reveal itself on a roll over on a button and then the user can select from the menu of links.

I tried to find an example of what I want, but I could not find it. So hopefully some one knows what I am talking about. Please help. Thank you.

Animated Navigation Problems
Please help, I am at my wits end.
I'm trying to create a seemingly simple animated Navigation system.

The Set-Up:
On start up an external swf is loaded into the main movie within a containerClip_mc.
When you mouse over the "Main Navigation" text, it fades out and a sub-navigation menu expands outward. From there you have five choices of sub-nav buttons to chose from. Click on one sub-nav button and it's supposed to unload the root external swf and load its corresponding sub-nav swf movie in its place.

I have tried so many variations I do not care to count the hours/days.

I have attached a zip folder for any one willing to help me.

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Fishwing

Animated Navigation Links
I'm a rookie at flash and need some help to get started. On my index page I have 2 links (one a picture of a camera and the other a picture of a cocktail. I want the 2 images or buttons to be linked on an axis, with the axis being in the middel of the 2 images. So if you imagine a camera and a cocktail on a invisible tray. When you rotate the tray, the camera gets bigger and comes towards the viewer, and the cocktail rotates away from the viewer becoming smaller. And when rotate the other way, the camera goes smaller to the back and the cocktail rotes closer to the viewer. So when the cursor is over the camera it will rotate closer and, well you get the idea.
I want it to look realistic with the perspective changes as well so i will photography the items myself in the different states.

Where do I begin? Is this a simple motion tweening thing or do i use actionscript? Any help is much appreciated, thank you...

Edited: 12/30/2007 at 02:41:51 PM by djmalaka

Help Please, Animated Smartclip Navigation
Can anyone help me please.
I have completed the tutorial however, can not get my buttons to lead anywhere.
I have added an invisible button with actionscript for get url above the buttons, but they still dont work.

Any suggestions?
I have attached .fla file.
thank you....
by the way, I was following this tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...rtclipnav2.htm

Animated SmartClip Navigation Help
I readed the tutorial but when i finish the smartclips i want them to act like buttons. Because they are smartclips i cannot apply them actions like on buttons.
what can i do?

Animated Navigation Problem
Hi,

I am completely new to flash; anyways I created an animated navigation bar. So when the mouse goes over the menu the sub menu comes out. The problem is I can't get the sub menu buttons to link to another html page.

I kinda figured out that the problem is because of the flash movie clip navigation.

Any help, tips or tutorials will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[FCS3] Help: Animated Navigation Bar
i'm trying to create a nav toolbar of some sort like the one that was mentioned here.
being an actionscript newbie relying on kirupa tutorials i am stumped on a few items.

questions.

1. how do i make the buttons inside the scrolling mc or any animated mc to work.
2. i am able to swap the z order of the scrolling items using swapDepths using "onRelease"... how do i make it work on something like "onRollOver"?
3. is there a way to maintain the object spacing on the scrolling items while the focused item is enlarged?

...i know there was one more question in my head... i kinda forgot what it was. update this post when i remember it =]

any help would be appreciated.

thanks!

Animated Flash Navigation
I was wondering what the best solution would be to roll over an image that will have navigation appear. Just like the maroon 5 website does (you roll over a small orange triangle and then the navigation fades in while the orangr triangle tweens off to the left..then when you roll out the navigation fades away and the orange triangle reappears)

Thanks for any help!

Making An Animated Navigation Bar Like Www.3dcart.com's
Hi, I am trying to make an animated navigation bar like www.3dcart.com's. I don't know how to do this with Flash MX. Can anyone help or maybe write a quick tutorial on it?

Thanks!

Animated Smartclip Navigation Tutorial
There is a tutorial on Kirupa.com called Animated Smartclip Navigation. It can be found here: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...artclipnav.htm

The premise is creating one button instance, and then defining it as a component, in order to use it multiple times. The author of the tutorial says that when using these buttons for a menu, simply place invisible buttons over the top, so each button can have a unique command. The trouble is, when i do this, the animations no longer play. Have i missed something??

Complex Navigation With Controller And Animated Buttons Question
Greetings all,

This is quite a lengthy question I have.

I have created a navigation which uses a controller. The buttons have a movie clip which plays when you mouse over and THEN plays in reverse back to its original state. The code I use for that on the MC is:

onClipEvent (load) {
this.onRollOver = function() {
mcPlay = true;
};
this.onRollOut = function() {
mcPlay = false;
};
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (mcPlay) {
this.nextFrame();
} else {
this.prevFrame();
}
}

The problem is that although my MC are playing the whole movie and reversing the movie when I mouse Out, I can't seem to get them to act as buttons within the controller. Also within the controller the MC has a tween to it as well, which I would like it to do, but, that also doesn't seem to work.

So in conclusion:

- Button is normal
- Button is rotating (mouse over)
- Button tweens down to 50% of size (when clicked + it keeps playing cause mouse is still over)
- Button reverses back to normal state (mouse moved off button BUT button is still at the tweened 50% size)
- Another button is clicked (button returns to normal size and the above steps apply to newly clicked button)

Damn this sounds confusing or does it???! I'll happily mail the .fla file to any senior member who can help me if it will help them understand my plight any better.

Nice Animated Menu Component But Can't Get Button Navigation To Work Properly
Hi I am having a lot of trouble with a cool looking menu component that I have. It has a bounce animation which is nice, however, each time I try and add script to make the buttons navigate to another URL the animation stops working.

I have uploaded the source files to:
http://www.sourcegrafikdesign.com/files.zip
Feel free to download and see if you can figure it out!

I have tried using:
_root.movieClipName.onPress=function(){ //since it is a button it will continue to play (or do anything you want if you put the code in here)
getURL("http://www.website.com", "_blank");
}
in the frame actions but with no luck, i have also tried onclipevent(mousedown) but all that does is open every linked button on the page at the same time!.

I need the help of someone with more Actionscript knowledge then I have!!

Thanks
H

Create Non-animated Equivalent Of Animated Flash 8 Animation
Hi, I'm working with a template that includes Flash. It's bad enough I've never touched Flash before this project, but I have to actually work with someone else's engineering of one (I'm retrofitting a purchased template)! LOL

Anyway, all I want to do is to save a completely non-animated version of the animated version I've managed to perfect. The plan is to use it on sub-pages of our presentation so that people only have to experience the animation when they land on the page. Not when they're navigating around. I've already tried a couple of things including saving an image map version. All that did was present me with an error message that certain components weren't included, which is tentatomount to being non-usuable to me for now.

So, is there a way to tell Flash, "Hey, this looks great, now give me a static version of it with working links and everything!".

Thanks if anyone can help!

Dave

Animated SWF Is Not Animated When Included In Another Movie As A Clip
I have an SWF that, when run by itself, is an animation of a graphic equalizer display. But when I bring it into a new movie as a movie clip (I want to change the alpha, throw up some text, clear the txt, change the alpha, etc), the animation does not work, and all I get is the static images.

FLA is at http://www.black-diamond.com/flash_src/equalizer.fla if anyone wants to take a look at it. The one I am trying to bring it into is at http://www.black-diamond.com/flash_src/test3333.fla (the corresponding .swf to see what happens is at http://www.black-diamond.com/flash_src/test3333.swf ).

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

(Reposted because last title wasn't descriptive enough)

Animated Rollover Using Animated Gif
Hi

I am brand spankin new to this forum

I want to make a rollover button in flash using a animated gif.....
is this possible?

i will explain

I made a simple gif that would be the button in idle position.

then i made a animated gif of same picture with edges starting to glow (the glow fades in, its only like 7-8 frames) i wanted this to come on in the originals place so it looks like the word home is glowing

i cannot figure it out. I am a photoshop guru, but am still taking baby steps in flash.

the reason i made button in photoshop is beacause you can make it look a lot cooler than with vector graphics(unless u wanna spend a lot of time making it look like metal)

can someone please help!!

I will atach my gifs so u can see if you can do it!!

CuePoint Navigation Vs. CueSegment Navigation
Having problems throwing up a talking head slide show in MX2004 Pro.

1) The slider works going forwards, but not going backwards
2) The buttons seeking slides work going forward, but not going backwards

After talking with tech support, it seems the problem is with how they set up CuePoint navigation. Basically, a single time point = cue point triggers an event, which is a slide change. This is triggered from left to right in time, but not going the other way.

A slide show requires a different action script; however. It is not cue points that are linked with slides, but SEGMENTS in time are linked with STATES that correspond with a certain slide being in place.

Is there an action script expert out there who could help me program this into a slider that really works, going backwards and forwards?

If that is too ambitious, how can I subtract 300 milliseconds from q.time?

This will at least, hopefully, make the slide buttons work, since they will seek to a time point slightly before the actual cue point.

Jonas

Animated Man
Can somebody please help with this.

http://www.btinternet.com/~lfl_powell/

The animation is created with one main MC with a static man facing left on frame 1, static man facing right on frame 2, MC of man moving left on frame 3 and another MC of the man moving right on frame 4 and all are set to stop on frame.

What i want to happen is for the main MC to intially face right (which i know i can do by swopping the static frames around) but when the man moves left I want it to then go the the left static - so he ends up facing the direction he last went.

I'm currently using this script on the main MC but is there anything else i could add to do it or an easier way??

onClipEvent (load) {
moveSpeed = 10;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
gotoAndStop (4);
this._x += moveSpeed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
gotoAndStop (3);
this._x-=moveSpeed;
}
}

Also if anyone knows a way to stop him walking off the end of the page that'd be helpful to!!

cheers
L

Animated Gif
i have a project where my swf has to b a animated gif then inserted in DW. I am having problems exporting the animating the file once its in DW, when i preview. in other words!!!!its not animating.
any suggestions!!!!

Animated Gif?1
i have a project where my swf has to b a animated gif then inserted in DW. I am having problems exporting the animating the file once its in DW, when i preview. in other words!!!!its not animating.
any suggestions!!!!:

Animated GIF?
I have a banner a created in Flash MX. It has a background with one key frame with two movie symbols. When I try to export to an animated gif all I get is a static image of the one key frame of the main movie. How Can I export this as an animated gif?

Using Animated Gif's
I am having a problem using animated gif's in movies and then exporting them as an AVI or Quicktime movie. The animations work just fine when you save a movie as a Flash Movie but when I try and export it in the other formats the animation does not show up.

Is there something I am supposed to be changing before I export them?

Animated Gif
Can anyone please tell me how I can make an animated gif like the black and yellow (news/press release) shown on this page?http://www.animatedgif.net/sitemessages/news/news.shtml

(The image I am referring to is called newsrel_e0.gif on that page.)

Does it require using 3D software?

Thanks for the help

Animated Gif
Hi I have some problems with animated gif...and also with static ones...
I make a flash file, then I publish it as a gif...but I see a blank page when I open this gif file(an entire white page...)
why this???? I can't understand!!!!
Please help me...

Thanx [casperrr]

Animated Gif's
Hey all,
I was just wondering if anyone can help me with this. I have an animated gif, normally on my PC it says its 6 Kb, I import it into flash and it cuts it into lots of little images, and the file size of the movie goes up by about 30Kb. Ahhh!
Does anyone know how I can stop it getting so big?

Thanks
Martyn

*.swf To *.gif (animated)
can anyone help me, how to export *.gif from flash with good results. coz i notice when exported it from flash, the *.gif wil' lost its colors.

could somebody help me, please...

tanx!

What Is This Animated With?
i'm sure several of you have seen this cartoon.

i am wondering if this is animated in flash or if it's done with another program and then just imported into flash.

it's entertaining and i would like to create cartoons similar to it. i have made a few with flash now. but this almost looks 3d.

can anyone tell me what they think this was animated with?

thanks in advance.

Swf -to- Animated Gif ?
hi,

i know this is probably a stupid question but can you turn a swf into an animated gif???

thanks,
Ben.

Animated Gif
I have a .fla I'd like to publish as an animated gif...easy enough...but...

The images I'm using, gifs themselves, were created with transparent backgrounds, flash supplies a background I really don't want?
I can publish the animated gif (simple flashing thing) and it works however it has a background. Anyway to eliminate the background?

OTOH, I created a backgroundless animated gif in Fireworks but can only save as .png. And I can only seem to get it to animated within Fireworks itself...any help is appreciated.

Cheers.

Animated Gif
hellow,
I import an animated gif to flash mx 2004.
The gif has background and an object in it.
I want to remove the background and leave only the object.

thank you
Dalia

Animated GIF.?
Ok I know you can make an animated GIF through flash, but how. Everytime I export it only displays the first frame, and is not animated. Probably something simple but I need some help........thanks!

Animated GIF..
is there a way to save a small flash animation as an animated gif? instead of using Imageready or nething

Fla To Animated Gif
Hello.

I have maked a flash movie in Macromedia Flash, and the site where i want to show it only will allow gif or jpg or png. How can i get my flash movie from swf to gif?

When i just export in flash the gif movie i very bad quality.

How to do?

Animated Gif
Hi
I want to make an animation tween that changes spape (zoom in) and color. The first and the last images are gif images. How can i do it. In motion tween the color changes only at the last frame and the shape tween just doesn't work (dotted line)
Thank you

Animated .gif
Ok, I was wondering how to add an animated .GIF image into a flash file. I tried importing it from a library, and just pasting it, yet nothing worked. Any Ideas?

Swf To Animated Gif
hi
i want to export my swf file to animated gif, the flash publish wont give me a animated gif with high quality,
so please tell me a way for do this job
thnx

Animated Gif?
man this thing isn't working. why do animated gifs only display the first frame? is there a way to fix this?

Code:
var jpgURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://spdg1.sci.shizuoka.ac.jp/grwinlib/english/demo/gif/dp.gif");
var navBK:Loader = new Loader();
navBK.load(jpgURL);
p_parentObj.addChild(navBK);
i am able to load in swfs, jpgs, gifs, and other stuff.. but the animated gifs only show the 1st frame!

is there a simple/complex work-around? do you have to have flash tell the gif to start its animation? or is it just not possible?

thanks!

Animated GIF's
Hey,
Just read a brief from a client saying he wants a flash movie that contains a dynamically loaded animated GIF. Is this possible?
Would it be a case of importing the individual GIF's and animating them in Flash instead?

Any help would be soooo appreciated!
Thanks
Matt

Animated Gif
hey guys, i have this animated gif that i created, i wanted to add it to my site but it doesnt look very clear. I now i could use swf and html files together but unfortunately the server i have i cant use that to create my logo.
Is there any way i can make my animated gif look somewhat better?
Thanks