Flash :: Animated Preloader

Animated Preloader
hi, I've been all over these forums, trying to find my answer - but have failed.

I'm looking to make a preloader, where a movie click moves upward as the movie is loaded - the image is a cup being filled with water.

right now i have the graphics and animation for the prelaoder set.
it fills over 100 frames. i just have no idea what to do for th actionscript.

pleeease help

sirK

Animated Preloader
I've seen preloaders with progress bars and looping animations, but want to create a preloader that displays an animation that does not loop but will run once and finish when the content is loaded. For instance, a glass appears and fills up as the content loads, when it's full, the content will play. Thanks!

[F8] Animated MC As A Preloader?
Ok, I thought this would be easy, but I'm not getting anywhere right now...
so I thought I'd ask:

I have a .fla which is eventually going to be about 300 kb big. I want it to look like a computer interface, and in the first few frames it actually looks like the system is starting up. So I thought: "What a great place for a preloader!"
But how can I make a preloader that is playing an animation?

What I have as a preloader is this (3 frames altogether):

First frame:

Code:
totalBytes = this.getBytesTotal();
loadedBytes = this.getBytesLoaded();
remainingBytes = totalBytes - loadedBytes
percentDone = int((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*200);
bar.gotoAndStop(percentDone);
if (_framesloaded == _totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("the_actual_user_interface");
}
"totalBytes", "loadedBytes", "remainingBytes" and "percentDone" are text fields that show how far the movie is loaded, "bar" is the progress bar.

Second frame:

Code:
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
Third frame:
is actually the main interface frame ("the_actual_user_interface")

So, since in frame 1 the code says "when-loaded-then-go-to-main-interface", the .fla hops directly to the main frame without showing the preloader. Wouldn't matter, but since in frame 1 the startup-MC is placed which is an important part of my interface (the computer booting) that kind of sucks...

What I would really like is that the MC with that computer booting stuff plays and the preloader would be inside that MC. But what will I have to change in the code then? (Something like _root.getBytesTotal();???)
Also, it would be great if, like when for example 20% are loaded, the MC would jump on to the next frame, then after 40% again, after 80%... and then, after 100% goes on to the main frame. That way the whole animation would play in any case.

Can somebody help?

Animated Preloader In As3
Does anyone know how to make an animated preloader that can be customized?
I found several tutorials on how to make as3 preloaders but they all use a simple 1 frame progress bar animation. I would like to learn how to make one where the animation can be customized for a particular site.

Thanks in advance!

Looking For An Animated Preloader Without The Bar
I have tried building this myself without success. I was looking for a code or an example of a preloader that does not have a bar, but is merely an animation that will lead into the main page. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks

Animated Preloader.
Allright, I'm asking a huge favor here.
I'm in need of a actionscripter since my knowledge of AS is somewhat limited.

I want to dynamically load external .swf files in an empty movieclip. Not a problem, I can do that. But since the .swf is somewhat large I want to add a preloader. For this preloader I have an animation (A circle that fills up over 100 frames). I want to be able to show the percentage that is loaded and that the frame number of the animation is the same as the percentage that is loaded.

Example.

The external .swf(100Kb) is loaded into container_mc. You see the animation running (the circle filling up). When the .swf is 40% loaded, 40% of the circle is filled up (the animation is at frame 40). When the entire swf is loaded, is shows up on the screen and not sooner....

I've tried looking at the tutorials and tried the search but I can't really make heads or tails of it.

Please help me....

Here is a plain .fla with two external swf's. The fla contains a background, a content-layer with the empty container_mc, a loader layer with the loader animation, a buttons layer which contains two buttons to switch between the two test-swf's and an actions layer.

I've anybody can help me, it would be greatly appreciated.

Animated Preloader?
is it possible to make a animated preloader. I know how to make one with a loading bar, and a percentage thing. But i was wondering if you could make one that played a movieClip poportionally to the amount of frames loaded.
I fooled around with it for a while but couldn't get it right. for a 50 frame animation i came up with this:

Code:
bytes_loaded = Math.round(this.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(this.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
this.loader._currentframe = getPercent*50
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
this.gotoAndPlay(3);
}
It didn't work. any ideas/tut's on this?

ANIMATED PRELOADER - Help
Greetings!

This is my first post/thread on this forum. I must assure you all that I am not the kind of person that likes posting

Building An Animated Preloader.
Hello, good day!

I need help with building a preloader. This is what I have in mind right now. I'm planning to build an animated preloader, it's a pair of wings and as the more it loads the wing will grow itself. After it has finish loaded it'll be a full pair of wing. Can anyone give me a headstart on what I should do? What script to include and so on. I'll appreciate it if someone would show me a simple sample on it. Just a simple one will do, no need for a nice fancy one

Thanks!

Long Animated MC Into Preloader
OK I have seen this done but Im not even sure were to start. I have a Animated MC that I want to use as a preloader but the preloader ends before the animation how do I link the animation to the preloader?

Thank you

Animated Preloader Probs.
Hi! I wonder, i'm not good at all at actionscripts..
To the question.
If u want a swf file... in my case. loader.swf to load another swf file.. main.swf.
And the loader.swf will have a animated preloader.. How to do that actionscript ? or something? does any one know.. the loader will animate in in the movie, the do the loading animation... like a loader then dissapear... how to?? pleaz help...

Animated Preloader, How Is It Done? [renamed]
need a good answer or better yet an fla for MX. Basically if you go to any of these sites:

especially this one:
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/intro.html
(animated RASTER preloader)

http://troymovie.warnerbros.com/
(raster image in preloader)

http://avp-movie.com/
(large raster images in background)

and finally sincity movie website has a preloader between scenes that's a raster gun and animated.

HOW do all these preloaders show up 1%-100% ??? when I put just a raster image in the background my preloader shows up at 40%+, and NO I don't have any linkage or music/mp3 streaming and I even do it in a separate scene that will go to next scene when preloader is done.
would be great if someone could post a similar preloader to the unfortunateevents website - at least a raster that's animated and shows the preloader going from 1-100..

Fancy Animated Preloader
Does anyone know of a tutorial explaining how an effect like this preloader is done? http://www.sprewellmotorsports.com/

It's the same preloader on all pages what I am most interested in is the animation of the actual bar.

Keyframe Animated Preloader
Hi,

I want to make a preloader like a signature being written as the loading progresses. I do not want to just make a mask with the signature, but to keyframe animate it to get the flow of a pen.

Basically what I guess I'm asking for is a way to have a preloader that makes a clip with keyframes go to the next frame in relation to bytes loaded.

Any tips??

Animated Raster Preloader? How?
how do you code a raster preloader that shows up so fast and loads quickly like on this site?
http://www.rappcollins.com/

thx

Advanced Animated Preloader
I am attempting to build an Advanced Animated
Preloader. The sequence is as follows:

(1) Preloader slides/animates onto the main stage.
(2) It begins loading an external swf.
(3) Upon completion, the preloader slides/animates off stage
and then the loaded swf begins to play.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance. I have not been able
to find a successful way to script this. -ro

Designing Animated Preloader
Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to go about designing this type of animated preloader, see this website http://www.storyville.com/highband/stage.html . I see a lot of them on most flash websites now days. I have been trying to create one but can't get my head around it, I thought it might have something to do with a mask, but IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢m not sure if IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢m right. Any help from you nice people will be appreciated.

Preloader Issue & Animated MovieClips
Hi guys,

Just came across another interesting issue in Flash8. I was having the common preloader not coming up right away issue, despite the fact that I have only 19k worth of content on the first frame and I am not exporting anything to the first frame. Everything else is in Frame 5. However, when I look at the bandwidth profiler it tells me there's a 128k in the first frame.

So I proceeded to rebuild the fla from the ground up by copying individual elements over to the new file one at a time and checking the bandwidth profiler after each addition. This is when I noticed an interesting development, as soon I started bringing in movieClips that contained animations or buttons (without animations), the size of my first frame began to increase despite the fact that the movieClips do not appear until the 5th frame. The bandwidth profiler also indicated that it is preloading these frames on the first frame. Additionally, I tried adding basic static text on the 5th frame using various fonts and noticed that depending on the font the size of the first frame also increased. I'm not surprised that the overall file size would increase depending on the font used, I'm just not sure why the first frame size increases if the given font does not appear until the 5th frame.

So after all that here are my questions. Does anyone know why animated movieClips are preloaded in the first frame? Why do certain fonts preload in the first frame? Finally, is there a way around either of these issues, particularly the animation issue. Thanks in advance,

Max

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!!

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 Preloader

Hi Guys what is the easiest way to create animated pre loaders, i have a logo i would like to fade in as the movie loads, is there a frame by frame method i could use or can i just create a movie clip for it.thanks

Hi Guys
what is the easiest way to create animated pre loaders, i have a logo i would like to fade in as the movie loads, is there a frame by frame method i could use or can i just create a movie clip for it.

thanks