Flash :: Flash Intro Animation In Neverending Loop

Neverending Loop
I am working on a interactive United States Map with Swish 2.0. The goal is; when you roll over each state it activates a "move" action and "Stops", when you roll off it goes back to its original place.

Whats happening is when it I roll over each state is activates the "move action" perfectly but if i keep the cursor on the state it causes a neverending loop (it keeps activating the move action, over and over), i would rather have it move, stop, and do nothing until you roll off, which then it would go back to its orignial spot. Does anyone know how to cure the neverending loop problem

Heres is a link to site that has already done it so you can get an idea on what I m talking about

http://firstmagnus.com/nationalcoverage.cfm

Any help would be appreciated .... Thanks

Writing A Music Loop For A Flash Intro
A friend has asked me to write a short music loop to be used in a flash intro he is designing.

The music writing bit isn't the problem, but I just need to check if I have the rest okay!

Is it okay for me to export the audio file as Mp3, as this is the smallest file?
Am I right in saying I need to edit the file so that it will loop seemlessly?

Plus is there anything else I should know?

Thanks in advance.

Jon

How Long Should A Flash Intro Animation Be?
About 30 - 60 seconds before the user skips it?

Want To Use A Flash Animation For Website Intro
I just made this simple animation with some fading text, a sound, and a link button on it. The button sends you to the actual site.

What i want to know is how would I go about making this into a splash screen before my web page. All I really know is that it can easly be done through dream weave but that doesnt help me because I dont have dreamweave. Also one it is there any special thing I need to look for in a hosting company (some feature they need to support in order to get my flash to work)?

on a side note I tried to export my animation to a .avi file but none of the tweens work and I really dont have the slightest idea why.

Playing A New Intro Animation On Release During The Previous Outro Animation?
I know about external swfs and having intros and outros, but I want my intros and outros to overlap...

for example, I want a background that's red and rotates when you click button 1, but I want to it rotate and change yellow when I click button 2, or rotate and change green when I click button 3...

I don't want it to rotate than fade to black and finish before the next animation has started, cause otherwise I don't get the smooth colour change from red to yellow, rather it's red to black than yellow...any tutorials that can help me?

thanks...it's hard to explain

Moving Buttons With Neverending Scroll Thingy
i need some help or a question answered in the tutorial of the never ending menu "what is the matrix neo" i have got the neverending bit down but i was ondering why my buttons that were working fine before i did this effect to them stoped working when i made them a movie clip

is there anyway around this

i just want a menu that keeps on looping for infinety possible according to where the mouse is on the screen?

any help would be much appreciated

Can I Loop A Specific Section Of Music In Flash After The Music Intro Plays?
Hi! My question involves looping audio in flash. I already know how to make a section of audio in an audio-editing program that loops and make it loop continuosly in Flash. What I would like to do now is take an audio clip that has an intro section and a "body" section and after the intro has played, loop back to the beginning of the "body" section continously. I assume it would involve sending it back to a specific millisecond?

Anyway, can anyone help me out with this one? Or is it even possible?

Thanks,
aswhitehead

Flash Help To Stop Animation And Keep Others In Loop
I am trying to stop animation in some layers while letting it run in others.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Loop After Intro
I want to make this graphic for my friends site where like two metal panels open up to reveal a brick wall with his name graffitied onto it but i have like this little symbol in the top rite corner that like goes from 100% opacity to 0% back to 100% and i made it from motion tween n i'd like to loop it's action. I'd use the normal loop in the html but than the panels wood keep opening up after the last frames plays, and i really don't want to have like hundreds of frames cause i don't want the size to be that big. Is it possible to loop the motion tweening with like an ActionScript thing, or do i have to like chop the flash image up or somthin like that?

If i can use the actionscript could you please go into it quite a bit, because I really don't understand how to use it yet.

oh, and i'm using Macromedia Flash MX

Hopefully I explained enough for someone to understand. Thanx ahead to those who even attempt to help me, it's gratefully appreciated.

Intro To Loop
I have two sounds.

I want one to play first, then another to play as soon as the first finishes. The second sound has to loop forever.

Action script should be simple.

I would prefer not to move anywhere in the timeline - i.e. all this happens in a single frame.

Thanks!

Intro Loop
Hi !

Im making a intro for my site. Got 1 problem tho.
Everything works like it should but since the intro loops over and over again (got like an img slideshow as an intro), my ENTER SITE button is looping to.
What actionscript can i use to make ENTER SITE to just play once after the first "img slideshow" has ended and started over again.

Im kinda new to flash so dont flame me if its to easy =)

btw. im using flash cs3

Best regards, Daniel

Music Intro Then Loop
Could someone please tell me how to go about adding music to a graphic for the following scenerio...
swf loads, onload mp3 'intro' plays, immediately following the 'intro' the mp3 'loop' plays repeating itself continuously.

Btw, I am nowhere near a professional in flash, so please put it to me gently.

Help With Intro Animation Plz
Hello guys! i've created a simple website using dreamweaver.. I have an intro animation on it, that play after you click the "ENTER SITE" on the splash page.

my question is this... After the intro animation finish playing, how can i make it jump to the main page without pressing any butttons?? Remember its only a normal HTML site yah?

em sorry i'm a bit dumd... many thanks!

Can You Play An Intro Sound Then Loop Another One?
G'Day Guys,

Long time no post!!

I am trying to import two music files into my movie such that when the movie loads the 'intro sound' plays once over, and then following the completion of the 'intro sound' my other sound file which I would like to loop starts up, but I don't know how to do it

Any ideas?!

Thanks,

Nick

Making An Intro, Then Playing A Loop In The Bg
I'm just getting into flash, and so far I can make a movie that looks good when it's played, but I'm not sure how to make just a few effects loop continueously after the intro is done.

And help on this would be great, because I would love to fill my site with flash,

Skipping Intro Animation
I’m relatively new to flash and I created an animated intro on the home page. Is there a way so that once a user sees the intro and goes into the site and then they want to come back to the home page it automatically skips the animation? I know that’s kind of wordy, but that’s the best way I can explain it. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Animation Intro And Outro
hello, i'm looking for a simple script for a simple site.
basically i need a script that allows me to have an "animation intro and outro" for every file that i load into the main site.

i have seen a lot of flash sites like this
here is what i mean:
user is at at homepage.
user clicks on "page2" , then the animation starts ...goes till end point, and loads "page2" , and comes in the animation for "page2"
user clicks on "page3" ... animation outro for "page2" starts...goes till end point and loads "page3" and so on.

ok thats my best explanation for what i'm lookin for ,
basically its just and in and out animation for each movie that loads.

if this makes sense , please help!
~Z

Intro Animation Question
Okay, basically, I'm trying to get Flash to run an intro animation that does the following:
1. Fades in to an image of a lightbulb on a black background
2. On click, moves an electrical cord to look like the lightbulb is being plugged in
3. switches the first lightbulb to a new, "glowing" one (turns on the lightbulb).
4. Background fades to an image of an office (upside down).
5. Rotate whole canvas 180% so the office is right-side up.
6. Items in office become buttons to click on.

I can already get the fade in (with a transition), and I have already designed the images as small .gifs, I just need to get them to move around. I can also cut out the buttons in photoshop and simply paste them from the library onto the background. It's just the animations that are stumping me.

Any ideas? HELP!

Thanks!

[F8] Intro Animation Play Once
I've seen this done, but not sure how it's created. I would like to be able to create a Flash intro animation. This animation will be placed on the index page. I only want this animation to play once, so if you click around to other subpages and go back to the home page, the intro animation will not play all over again on that computer. I'm sure it could play much later in the day or the next day etc. I just don't want it constantly playing every time you click reload or click back.

Looping Animation @ End Of An Intro
I'm working on a flash intro now that I've almost finished and I'm trying to get past one thing... At the end of the intro, the button comes up that gives you the option to watch it again. When that happens, I would like to have an animation on the end that repeats until you select something. So far I've put the animation into a MC and then put that on the timeline at the end. It plays it but it repeats back to the beginning of the intro instead of repeating to the beginning of the last mc. I was thinking that movie clips repeat themselves if you don't tell them not to. Is there some code I have to put in to tell it to repeat? That may not be enough information so far but can anyone offer any suggestions?

How Can I Use An Intro Animation As A Preloader?
Ok, I'm not able to get this to work. I would really appreciate some help!

I've done a long search on preloaders but all the posts cover creating a loading bar. Or, at least, I'm not able to make the connection from using a loading bar which shows progress or using an intro animation in frames as the preloader.
I'm not trying to create a Loading Bar or show a percentage to the user. Instead, I have a 10 second animation that leads into the site homepage. I'd like the animation to "build" the homepage. I'm sure many of you know what I mean and have seen this done. For some reason, I can't jump this hurdle (although I've had 4 hours of sleep in the last 48, so that's my current excuse )

Can I get my intro animation (a separate swf) to play smoothly while loading the main content in the background?
How can I do this?

Thanks for any ideas on this one!

Intro Sequences And Animation
Hello there,

I have completed my first flash web page now and am looking to begin animating both cartoons and an intro for the site.

I've looked around and have surfaced nothing to help me with this. I look at some of the great animations out there i.e the killer intro's on this site, the wicked stuff over at weebl-stuff.com and many more.

Can anyone point to a place where I might pick up some of the skills to help me achieve said animation quality.

Gaz

Intro And Exit Animation
i have been searching sites lately and i've seen some great sites with intro animations and exit animations on buttons or when you click on a button a movie will oad in and as soon as you press another option from the nav. the current movie will animate out and load in the next movie smoothly..my question is, all of that done with a movie that has a lable on the timeline "intro" the animation under it plays until it is stopped by a "stop action" & after that a exit animation will played when (not sure though what the action is that causes to trigger the exit animation and to load the next movie ..?? i'm wondering how the process works where the aniamtion will load in but as soon as another option is pressed the current animation exits and loads in the next movie and plays the intro to that ..i guess i'm just confused with the actionscript part to that or my method could be completly wrong..pls help..
if there are any tutorials to lead me to a better understanding that would be great or if it could be some simple code i was thing it may be the if and else code ..not sure

cheers

Loop Site Intro Once::redirect To Webpage
I want my Swish to play once and then send the viewer to a webpage in my site.

I tried to click on the Timeline behind the last animated bit of text in my intro (right click) to put in a STOP but stop was not available..just the list of Actions.
The other thing is once whole intro plays once I want it to automatically send you to a page in my site.

Instead of worrying about inserting a stop should I just apply the action "go to url" right after the last effect?

Thanks.

Intro Animation And Static Layout
Hello,
I had built my interface on frame 1 on main timeline with static elements.

I was under the impression that if I wanted to animate all of those elements for my main index page, I needed to do it in a new movieclip timeline and convert those items to symbols. Then set up my tweens on those layers?

When I do that, the main timeline shows through, and it looks as if I'm animating over my static interface on my main timeline. Any suggestions?

Intro HUGE Animation Issue?
PLEASE HELP
I've pretty much finished an intro for the new site I'm designing, 30 sec. It's HUGE. I've looked at the size report and the frames that look huge are the parts that have text, which seems weird. The only thing I can think of is because the text is animated and is a separate graphic symbol. The pictures in the intro are kinda big, but nothing compared to where these text animations load. The music isn't big at all either.
If I were to bring all the layers of the animations onto layers directly on scene1 will this makea difference? I don't want to waste my time. It is VERY important that this not be so huge. I have a preloader, but it takes so long it seems like dialup and I'm on high speed. Here's a link to the intro, so you can check it out.

http://www.capturedimages.net/test

I'm really desperate here. I'm pretty much a beginner as many of you know, but this has taken hours to do, and I really don't want to totally re-do it, but it MUST be smaller than last years: ( http://www.capturedimages.net )

I'd be SO grateful to you guys, you can't even know
Thanks

SD

SharedObject, Using It To Play An Intro Animation Only Once
Hi all,

Having some difficulty getting my sharedobject to operate. All I am trying to do is have my intro animation play only once, so that I can use the same swf on multiple pages without showing the intro animation every time.

If the 3rd page was viewed first the intro animation would play but then if the 2nd page was viewed the intro animation would not play (because it was already played on page 3).

My code:
logoload = SharedObject.getLocal("logoload1");

if (_root.logoload.data.logoloadvar == undefined){
_root.logo_mc.gotoAndPlay(1);
} else if (_root.logoload.data.logoloadvar == "logoseen") {
_root.logo_mc.gotoAndStop(31);
}
stop();

//_root.logo_mc //My trigger to say the intro has been played
computer = System.capabilities.os;
_root.logoload.data.logoloadvar = "logoseen";
_root.logoload.flush();
stop();

File here
http://users.ncable.net.au/~timfranc...red_object.fla

If someone could please help would be much appreciated.

Different Intro Animation In External Swf, Based On A Var's Value
I feel this could be pretty basic for you guys. Here's the deal:

I need an external swf to check a var's value and decide how to animate. If value == "something" then animate in like this, else, animate in like that.

Now, a file is loaded with LoadManager class, and a function from this class sends a string to the loaded swf, and based on that string it animates out. I've tried to make the same function set a public var's value inside the LoadMangaer class, but i can't acces it from the external swf.

It will probably make sence when you look at the fla and the LoadManager class, so here's the attachment. Hope you can help, I've been dwelling on this for ages. Tnx a million.

And Andir, thanks for your previous help with the LoadManager and delegates.

I Would Like To Have My Intro Animation Transition To My Html.index
I have an intro animiation that makes my homepage "appear" (zoom in buttons, fade in logo banner). When the movie clip is finished, I would like it to open the home page that is identical to the end of the clip with out the user really noticing. Is this possible?
The obstacles I encounter are:
1. I don't know the actionscript that makes the swf file appear in a "regular" browers (meaning with the toolbars and buttons)
2. I don't know how to open an html file from within the swf file (_self)

Thanks

RbnHd

Intro Animation Linked To A HTML Page
I have a flash animation used as an intro of sorts of a webpage. When the animation ends, I need it to link directly to another html page, the main page of the site. Is there action script to do this? Or do I just need to employ a redirect?

thanks!

Site Structure: How To Handle Intro Animation?
Hey all,

I'm wondering how better developers are structuring the introductory animation of full flash sites. Every flash site seems to have some sort of introduction animation which sets the stage, prior to which none of the menus or layout or information is in its final/useable position or state. So I have a few questions:

1. How are you dealing with preloaders? Are they loaded into the main movie as an external .sfw? If so, how are you calling the next movie to be loaded? OR do you put all your preloader animation in scene 1 and your main movie stuff in scene 2? OR do you put your preloader in frame 1 and the rest of your stuff in frame 2, etc? What's the most effecient way of dealing with this?

2. When using dynamically created menus, do you use a separate movieclip to create the introductory animation of the menu items, and once in place, replace the movieclip with the actual menu? Or, while looping to create the menu, do you use code to animate the menu items into place?

3. Background images? What is the best way to load these? Do you include a file like this in the library, or do you load them into a movieclip?

4. Preloaders for external .sfw's, are they included at the beginning of the external .sfw, or are they contained within the main movie?

Thanks, and sorry if these questions come off as supa-noob!

Intro Music Wont Sync W/animation In Preview Mode...
hello,

I just finished my intro, i have a song that plays on Event in the first frame...anyways, when i press PLAY and preview the intro in flash program itself(on canvas), the song goes directly well with the pace of the animations, however, when i do a publish preview in internet explorer, the song and animations are slightly off with each other. it seems that the animations are faster and the song slowed down for some reason, so now everthing is off pace.

any help???

Intro Animation Randomly Jumps And Begins On Arbitrary Frame...WTF?
I'm not exactly sure how best to describe this recurring issue, but here goes:

The first frame of a flash movie receives a query string from its web page. Something to the effect of '?homepage=true'. An if-then statement within the flash movie decides if homepage=true, then play the animation, else jump to a static frame. Not really brain surgery.

The problem I'm having is when a user first visits the website, the animation plays normally - THEN the next page they visit, the animation arbitrarily starts anywhere between frame one and the intended resting frame. All other pages after that second page behave normally.

WTF.

Do 'gotoAndPlay' and other frame control commands just not work 100% of the time on frame one?

Thanks for any help I get!

Animation Loop?
Ok i'm trying to build a movie with a fan in it, the fan rotates (pretty fast, 8 frames for full rotation) and i want the fan to keep on rotating while the movie continues, but i can't use the GoTo action because then the rest of the movie won't play. Is there a way to tell it to keep rotating or will i have to copy and paste all the frames untill the movie ends?

Loop Animation
Could someone tell me how to loop an animation so that it would repeat even when another animation takes place? Also, the looping animation would continue when the movie stops. Thanks...I would like to do it for the Azlon text in the bottom right on my movie in the link below. I want to have it to keep fading in and out.

movie - http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2...d136/azlon.htm

Animation Loop
I have a animated homepage Im working on, and I want it to loop. But when I add more frames to it will either, just stop the animation after it does it once, orrr it will go to the rest of the frames, somone help

[F8] Animation Loop
Heya,

So, I have a small intro to the main page where my buttons and whatnot are.
The buttons are screwheads that spin into place at the intro. What do I have to do to make the screws also have an animation loop when onRollOver if there is already timeline junk before it?

For Loop And Animation.
Hey,

I got a littile problem with a script.
I attach a MC from the library to the stage.
But I want that each object goes to a certain position.

This is the code:

ActionScript Code:
var max:Number = 5;
var loopstart:Number = 0;
var xbound:Number = 0;
var ybound:Number = 0;
var xspacing:Number = 100;
var yscpacing:Number = 0;
var speed:Number = 5;
// Start the function
_root.onEnterFrame = easeIt;
// Gentlemen, start your engines ... vroom
function easeIt() {
for (i=loopstart; i<max+1; i++) {
// linkage name - new name - give unique depth
_root.attachMovie("balk", "balk"+i, 100+i);
trace(i);
// Hide objects on start
_root["balk"+i]._x = xbound-(xspacing*i)-Stage.width;
// Actuelly this line of code is useless,
// But for the completeness I added this line
_root["balk"+i]._y = ybound+(yspacing*i);
_root["balk"+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += speed;
if (this._x>=xbound+(xspacing*(max-i))) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
}

Animation Loop
i have created a number generator which i want to loop as soon as the start button is pressed. for example if i press the start button and a combination is created, i want it so that the combinations keep on running as opposed to me having to press the start button everytime.

can someone help please.

Help With Animation Loop
I have the following code and I need it to loop a certain number of times once it has finished the last animation tween. The clip runs a total of 15 seconds. It is a banner and will go on a few different sites so it needs to loop for some 3 times other fives, and some not at all. ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRICIATED !

// loads action script tween
#include “lmc_tween.as”

// set page elements alpha to zero this.introBox_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.titleText_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.outlineBoxBg_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.introBox_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.text1_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.counter_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.text2_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.text3_mc._alpha = “0”;
this.logo_mc._alpha = “0”;

// set page animation sequence
this.introBox_mc.alphaTo(100,.25,”easeOutSine”,0);
this.outlineBoxBg_mc.alphaTo(100,.25,”easeOutSine” ,0);
this.titleText_mc.alphaTo(100,1,”easeOutSine”,0);
this.introBox_mc.alphaTo(0,.5,”easeOutSine”,2);
this.titleText_mc.alphaTo(0,.5,”easeOutSine”,2);
this.text1_mc.alphaTo(100,1,”easeOutSine”,2.5);
this.text1_mc.alphaTo(0,.75,”easeOutSine”,4.5);
this.counter_mc.alphaTo(100,2,”easeOutSine”,5);
this.counter_mc.frameTo(215,4,”easeOutLinear”,5);
this.counter_mc.alphaTo(0,1,”easeOutSine”,9);
this.text2_mc.alphaTo(100,1,”easeOutSine”,10);
this.text2_mc.alphaTo(0,1,”easeOutSine”,11);
this.text3_mc.alphaTo(100,1,”easeOutSine”,12);
this.logo_mc.alphaTo(100,1,”easeOutSine”,12);
this.text3_mc.alphaTo(0,1,”easeOutSine”,14.5);
this.logo_mc.alphaTo(0,1,”easeOutSine”,14.5);