Flash :: Help Create Gallery Animation

[CS3] Create Animation That Runs From Button Click After Another Animation Has Run
Hi,

I am a newbie to flash & actionscript. I have, though, learnt the basics of flash animation, tweens & bits of actionscript and have created an animation movie consisting of sevral layers.
I have the movie stopping at the end and the graphics are all converted to buttons.
Now, from this end point, i want the user to click on one of the images (buttons) and then the flash movie to start a sub-animation.
BUT i don't know how to do this.
Do i need to create a new scene to do this or do i need to extend the layers and add the additional animation to the layers or do i need to add new layers to the same scene?
ALternatively, do i need to this in actionscript?

Please let me know what is the method of doing this in Flash. This seems like a simple thing which i've seen in flash movies before but i can't find any answers or tutorials on how to do this.
Please give me the steps involved in creating a second animation runnable from a click in the 1st animation.

To clarify further, my aim is to make the movie clip interactive using different motions 9or animations so that when an object in the 1st animation is clicked a different animation starts. So how can i achieve this?

Regards, shuja

How To Create Static Animation From Dynamic Animation?
Hi there.

If I have created a dynamic animation (placing 100 raindrops on a stage using a for-loop), how can I create a static animation out of this that I can use in a animation?

The reason for asking, is that I want to create a flash-video for TV, and for that I can't use movieclips or dynamic content at all...

So I appreciate any help

Samuel

How Do I Create A Web Gallery Like This One?
I am somewhat new to Flash.

The example is http://www.yervant.com/wedding.htm

1. How do I load the images in this manner? Is there a tutorial. Are they all on different layers and loaded at separate intervals on the timeline.

2. When the images are clicked and the larger image is loaded, what kind of actionscript is this? Onclick? Onclip? Are there any tutorials?

Please be very specific. A link to a tutorial would be great.

Thanks

How Do I Create A Web Gallery Like This One?
I am somewhat new to Flash.

The example is http://www.yervant.com/wedding.htm

1. How do I load the images in in this manner? Is there a tutorial.

2. When the images are clicked and the larger image is loaded, what kind of actionscript is this? Onclick? Onclip? Are there any tutorials?

Create Animation And The Pan Over It?
Hi all,

Need some help - I'm coming from After Effects, which might explain why I have this question.

I want to create a growing animation (starts with one box and grows downward to many). The animation with be 4 times the size of the background, and I want to pan over the animation as it grows. How can I do this? I tried exporting and re-importing an swf (not good).

I appreciate the help.

CH

How To Create An Animation
I've never used flash, but i would like to learn how to creat animations. Could some one explain to me the basics of it? Im pretty lost on the issue and i cant seem to find wat i need anywhere.

I Am Trying To Create A Photo Gallery - Help
I am trying to create a photo gallery and came across a really neat one here http://www.randommedia.co.uk/

How do I go about creating a photo gallery simular to this style with the floating and moving pictures?

Wanting To Create A Gallery.
Ok the plan.

User has a little guide to click and move around the page to view differnet 'paintings' on each page.

Each page is 800x700 and is a different section for each gallery.

Now I was thinking if I had all 5 800x700 images in a very long strip when the user clicked either the right or left 'next' button it will take them to the next section of the gallery.

What I can work out is how to get the button to scroll/pan the next image accross, Kind of like when a slide door moves left to right.

I hope that makes sense, this has been driving me mad all day.

Thanks in advance.

How Can You Create An Image Gallery Like This?
Hi all!

Been pondering on how one could re-create this image gallery.

- How can you get them to zoom in with ease like that?
- How can you slide them in and out? Looks to me like it is all scripted.

Here is the link below:

http://www.vagabond.com/vagabond_cam...paignSection=0

Any examples or help would be super!

Thanks in advanced!

W

How To Create A Gallery Like Thefwa.com ?
Hi people,

I have a gallery.xml and a gallery.as where I load the xml file, I can trace it (showing all the text in the xml file), but now I want to load the images of the gallery.xml in many containers, like we see on www.thefwa.com. How do I do that ?

Thanks in advance.

I'm Trying To Create A Gallery Using Movieclips. Help
I have created a menu which contains the button [GALLERY]. When a user clicks this button it plays a movie. The movie is a set of thumbnails. heres the code I'm using to play the movie:

on (press) {
this.attachMovie("thumbs", "window", 0);
window._x = -900;
window._y = 575;
}

When a thumbnail is clicked I want the photo to popup. The photo is also a movieclip itself. Using the same code as above nothing happens. I want to keep the photos as movieclips so I can have them load as needed to keep the file size down of the initial swf file. I'm using MX 2004 Pro. Any help with this would be appreciated.

Create A Picture Gallery
hi i used the tutorials thats on this site and i wanted to know how do i make the pictures come out all the same size and centered... because i have these picture i wanna use but then they are not the same size and i used photoshop to change the size but when i did change it the pic doesnt come out centerd its towards to the left more ..please help me

Create Photo Gallery Help..
Create a Photo Gallery in "http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm"

i have done it wit step by step that it teach... and it work ok after i convert it into .swf, but when i put into my website... it just doesn't load the pic in my website... it just show the 2 arrow only... and no pic... does anyone know ? can help me ?

How Do U Create This Type Of Gallery?
Hi ppl,

I saw this gallery http://www.projectkahn.com/Gallery/ and thought it was rather slick.

I would like to create a gallery similar to it, but there are no tutorials for it...

Do any of u know how to create this, and can u post how to do it plzzzzz

Create A Photo Gallery?
look at "Create a Photo Gallery" tutorial by kirupa.

Does anybody ever trying to click the arrow and the photo never change to the next one?

How Do I Create An XML Based Gallery?
Hi,
my portfolio site has been updated several times this past month.
and since it was a pretty "static" portfolio, I had to add each work manually,
link it to the site, create an animation for the button... a complete mess.

anyway,
I want to create a dynamic gallery using XML (or arrays in Flash, whichever is better)

the XML should contain for each work the following details:
- the gif filename which represents the work (which should turn to color on rollover and to B/W or rollout )

- the URL
- a description of the work.

where do I start?

Thanks.

Create A Photo Gallery
Hello sbeener

I have tried to make the example in the tutorial by kirupa chinnathambi, but I work with Flash 8. The example to create a Photo Gallery is probably just for Flash MX because it doesn't work on my computer. Do I have to change codes? Also I don't want to use the buttons, but only have a smooth constant changing show on my homepage. Do I need to change or delete codes?

Thanks !

Greetings from Holland

Create A Photo Gallery
Create a Photo Gallery
code by sbeener :: tutorial by kirupa chinnathambi
Tried it... can't get it to work, nor does the downloaded flash file works? Only on the toturial page can I see it working.
Ideally I want an image gallery within a site. Tried both as its own movie and within an existing movie, nothing works.
What happens is that the first image pops up... then nowthing. I can't even see the arrows for forward and backward. Also the image does not appear where it is auppose to?!
I've put a test version on www.imagevision.dk, where I for example want a picture gallery under the link 'bryllup'.... see what happens? An image appears in the corner and then nothign.
Any help or any news on the script?

Kindly
Sophie

Create A Photo Gallery
To whom can answer this question:

I keep getting errors after following the following tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm

Errors I see:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 2, frame=1:Line 2: Syntax error.
written by sbeener (suprabeener)

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 2, frame=1:Line 21: Syntax error.
falls within pArray.length this.pIndex =

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 2, frame=1:Line 30: Syntax error.
to load images into var p = _root.photo;

Total ActionScript Errors: 3 Reported Errors: 3

The code i got from KIRUPA site:

//Code
written by sbeener (suprabeener)
/* i wrote this code, but you can use and abuse it however you like.
the methods are defined in the order which they occur to make it easier
to understand.
*/
// variables ------------------------------------------
// put the path to your pics here, include the slashes (ie. "pics/")
// leave it blank if they're in the same directory
this.pathToPics = "pictures/";
// fill this array with your pics
this.pArray = ["image0.jpg", "image1.jpg", "image2.jpg", "image3.jpg",
"image4.jpg", "image5.jpg", "image6.jpg", "image7.jpg"];
this.fadeSpeed = 20;
this.pIndex = 0;
// MovieClip methods ----------------------------------
// d=direction; should 1 or -1 but can be any number
//loads an image automatically when you run animation
loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[0], _root.photo);
MovieClip.prototype.changePhoto = function(d) { // make sure pIndex
falls within pArray.length this.pIndex =
(this.pIndex+d)%this.pArray.length; if (this.pIndex<0) { this.pIndex
+= this.pArray.length; } this.onEnterFrame = fadeOut;
};
MovieClip.prototype.fadeOut = function() { if
(this.photo._alpha>this.fadeSpeed) { this.photo._alpha -=
this.fadeSpeed; } else { this.loadPhoto(); }
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadPhoto = function() { // specify the movieclip
to load images into var p = _root.photo;
//------------------------------------------ p._alpha = 0;
p.loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[this.pIndex]);
this.onEnterFrame = loadMeter;
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadMeter = function() { var i, l, t; l =
this.photo.getBytesLoaded(); t = this.photo.getBytesTotal(); if (t>0
&& t == l) { this.onEnterFrame = fadeIn; } else { trace(l/t); }
};
MovieClip.prototype.fadeIn = function() { if
(this.photo._alpha<100-this.fadeSpeed) { this.photo._alpha +=
this.fadeSpeed; } else { this.photo._alpha = 100; this.onEnterFrame =
null; }
};
// Actions -----------------------------------------
// these aren't necessary, just an example implementation
this.onKeyDown = function() { if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {
this.changePhoto(-1); } else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {
this.changePhoto(1); }
};
Key.addListener(this);

*******Everything (Pictures and flash file) are in the same folder called (pictures).

Thanks

Create A Photo Gallery
Hi Kirupa,

First of all, big compliment for this site. Clear design and very functional!

As I was learning the "Creat a Photo Gallery"-thing and I noticed that the FLA 5 version didn't work properly on my computer. Of course, I used it in combination with all the images in 'animation' map.

The MX version works fine, can you tell what the problem is?

Thanks!

Grtz, Kevin.

Create A Photo Gallery
i want to know if it is possible to allow the pictures to also link to some site.
the tutorial was code by sbeener :: tutorial by kirupa chinnathambi. O also need the photo gallery to sdisplay 3 pictures at a time...if you could please help me i would grreatly appreciate it. my e-mail is jobasjr@cox.net thanks alot for your time!

How Do I Create A Photo Gallery
i need to create an easy to use photo gallery which loads external images and displays thumbnails and when a user clicks on a thumbnail it shows the image in it's full size (it can load within the movie or a pop up, either way is fine). i want it to load an unlimited amount of photos without having to modify the .fla document. can anyone direct me to a tutorial on how to do this?

Can Someone Tell Me What Is The Best Way To Create 3d Animation In Flash 5?
I have been reading on and on about different techniques to create 3d animation in flash. There are once that say that the best way is to create it entirely in flash. Others say to use 3d programs like 3d studio max. I have tried both of the ways and i came up with conclusion:
1) creating 3d animation entirely in flash is easy but too much time consuming
2) using other programs like 3d studio max requires another month to get used to it.

Is there any easier ways to do 3d animation? Maybe some easier programs for 3d. If there are what is the best program to use?

How To Create Text Animation
I want to know how to make an animation text... I have see someone create it.. so beutiful, i would really appreciated if someone can help me.

How Do I Create A Simple Animation
Sorry, I've tried create tween animation and nothing....

Can someone help guide me through just a simple text layer move? When I set a keyframe it backs up 1 frame and I don't get any blue line arrow through the frames set.

Is there a lesson section that has basic tutorials?

How Can I Create Animation Like This? Look Inside.
it sorta like 3d mixed with 2d,

if you look at the matrix has you, the burly brawl scene, you'll know what i mean, can someone help plz..

you can see the matrix has you at newgrounds.com

http://www.johnandrichie.com/

How Create Like This Animation With Actionscript ?
hi,

i want to know how create this animation with actionscript ?

http://www.graaam.com/up/Pic2/54d967f4d7.jpg

thanks in advance ....

How Do You Create This COOL Of Animation?
i am not sure if it was created in a 3D software or in Flash 8 with the new emboss/drop shadow filters. i really like it and would like to see if anyone has any input.

Also, the animation is very smooth so i am thinking that it is code and not created in the timeline.

the rollover state on the buttons on the right rail and the way the projects animate:
http://www.tiredofthinking.com/main.htm

the rollover state on the buttons on the bottom nav similar, but not as cool:
http://www.halolounge.com/

thanks anyone!

Using Flash To Create An Animation
hey guys,

quick question - is it possible to create a flash application which would allow people to make small animations?

I'm thinking it'd either be:

1. several "images" saved then played back in flash somehow
2. several images used to generate an animated gif which is then saved on the server

possible? Or madness trying to do it??!

cheers for any info!

To Create Animation In Flash Or AE
Hello everyone,
I am a novice at flash and pretty well versed in AE. I was approached to create a small animated flash ad and was curious about something. If I create the animation in AE and bring it into flash, as opposed to creating everything in Flash, would that affect size, quality, etc? Bottom line, which method would be better? I am confident enough with flash to do it all there, but AE would be faster and more flexible for me. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

How Do I Create This Animation Effect....
Look at the header of this site:

http://www.whfs.com/index_mp.php

I am interested in getting a nice "flash/shine" effect like this. I've done the shine effect tutorial on this site, but it doesn't look quite the same. I've also searched the forum for all threads related to that tutorial and have found nothing of any use. If anyone can walk me through how to create this popular effect it would be greatly appreciated. I've seen this all over the place on sports, movies and music sites, but have never been able to accurately recreate the effect. If anyone has done this and can help me achieve this effect it would be a HUGE help since I have had a need for this on multiple sites I have done. Thanks!

How To Create These Vector Animation
hi everyone,

do u guys have any idea how this: http://www.theunseenvideo.com/Flashtests/swirls.html
vector animation is done?

millions thanks!

How To Create This Rollover Animation
Hello Kirupa community,

I'm trying to create a rollover state similar to this site: http://www.exopolis.com/home/ -- can anyone help me out?

Many thanks,

How To Create An Animation That Follows The Mouse
Hi there
Im creating an animation that will be about 1000px long - what i want to do is to have the scene move with the mouse - ie when the mouse goes to the left the scene goes to the left - I will also have object on the scene that will be buttons - is this possible? any help would be greatly appreciated and direction at all!
many thanks
niki

Code To Create A Dynamic Gallery?
I need to create a gallery swf that scrolls though a directory of thumbnail jpgs and when the user clicks a thumbnail it shows the enlarged version. The number of thumbnail and larger jpgs will increase as I take more pictures (they are stored in seperate dirs and named 001.jpg 002.jpg etc) therefore it needs to detect all the pics in the dir.

Has anyone got any code that does this already?

Thanks for the time and effort folks!

Dave

How To Create Rotating Gallery Effect?
Hi,

i would like to create a rotating gallery,
as in
http://www.anfyflash.com/gallery/rotatinggallery/
(it uses a flash applet)

i downloaded the rotatinggallery.fla file from this link and
tested movie using flash mx.

However there appears a message in the movie preview
"Sorry, this Flash Applet Has Expired."

What does this message mean?
Is flash file is no longer usable?
Would there a way to create the rotating gallery in another
way or simpler way?

Thank You.

How To Create Photo Gallery With Thumbnails?
Hey everyone!

I have been learning Flash MX 2004 for about a month now.
I know the basics (i.e. motion/shape tweening, working with
symbols, basic behaviors, etc). I would like to have a photo
gallery on my site. I have found a lot of information on creating
a slideshow- but that is not what I am looking to do. I want
to use thumbnails. A good example of what I am looking to
do can be found here:

http://www.nigelsussman.com/nigel3.html

I am an artist and I would like to have about 20 images on my
site. When they are clicked I would like the larger image to
display along with the size & medium information.

I am guessing that I could create thumbnail buttons, then
have them "go to and stop" to a later keyframe which has the
larger photo and info. But I am thinking this will turn into
a huge nightmare to maintain. Is there an easier way to go?

I know Dreamweaver already- is it possbile to
have the flash file "point" to an html page that is just
on my hard drive (not uploaded yet)? I am guessing
no- but I thought I would ask just in case.

Thank you for your help!

How Do You Create A Random Photo Gallery?
I found this site: http://www.fotki.com and they have a random photo gallery... I don't think it's done with flash but I still want to know how this is done... Any coding or links to how to do it would be helpful...

thanks,

Create A Flash Web Photo Gallery
Hi All,

I've had some problems to realize a Flash web photo gallery,

but, sailing on the net I've found this program:
Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder
and I've done easy my work

I think that's right to share my little discovery

http://www.photo2vcd.com/flash-slide-show.html

good work...

[CS3] How To Create A Scrolling Image Gallery?
Hi there

I'm looking to create an image gallery with a scrolling image banner like the one here:

http://www.spacekitchens.co.uk

I know the one here has been done in javascript but i'd really like to achieve this in flash. when the user clicks on an image, i'd like an image above it to change to the one which the user has clicked so they can view a larger version. All the while, i'd like the scrolling images to remain on the page.

Does anyone know if i can achieve this, and how? I'm fairly familiar with Actionscript 2.0

Thanks in advance

How To Create Self-updateable Flash Gallery
Hey Everybody!
I have created a very nice flash site that showcases my pictures, sort of like a blog. Now I want to be able to create a script that will allow to show a new picture every day all by itself. Say, there is a folder with 365 pictures. The flash script takes a specified (for that day, for example: 11nov07.jpg) picture and uploads to the main window at 12:00 am every day. And so on every day.
So, that when people daily visit my site they see a new picture. All i have to do is put a whole bunch of new pictures into that folder and the script does the rest.
Can anyone help me with this? Any resources? I'd very thankful if you can help me with this!
Thank you very much!

How To Create Animated Xml Flash Gallery ?
I am a new starter . I want to create a xml flash gallery , but i dnt know how to create it ....Can any one let me know what is the procedure to do this dynamically .....

Thanks

Create A Photo Gallery Tutorial
I used this tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm

I ahve everything working, but the images are loading in the bottom left corner of my swf. It does not seem like it is loading into my movieclip. Any thoughts?

J

HERE IS THE CODE FOR THE MOVIECLIP: the instance name of my clip is "photo"

//Code written by sbeener (suprabeener)
/*
i wrote this code, but you can use and abuse it however you like.
the methods are defined in the order which they occur to make it
easier to understand.
*/
// variables ------------------------------------------
// put the path to your pics here, include the slashes (ie. "pics/")
// leave it blank if they're in the same directory
this.pathToPics = "animation/";
// fill this array with your pics
this.pArray = ["image0.jpg", "image1.jpg", "image2.jpg", "image3.jpg", "image4.jpg", "image5.jpg", "image6.jpg", "image7.jpg", "image8.jpg", "image9.jpg"];
this.fadeSpeed = 20;
this.pIndex = 0;
// MovieClip methods ----------------------------------
// d=direction; should 1 or -1 but can be any number
//loads an image automatically when you run animation
loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[0], _root.photo);
MovieClip.prototype.changePhoto = function(d) {
// make sure pIndex falls within pArray.length
this.pIndex = (this.pIndex+d)%this.pArray.length;
if (this.pIndex<0) {
this.pIndex += this.pArray.length;
}
this.onEnterFrame = fadeOut;
};
MovieClip.prototype.fadeOut = function() {
if (this.photo._alpha>this.fadeSpeed) {
this.photo._alpha -= this.fadeSpeed;
} else {
this.loadPhoto();
}
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadPhoto = function() {
// specify the movieclip to load images into
var p = _root.photo;
//------------------------------------------
p._alpha = 0;
p.loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[this.pIndex]);
this.onEnterFrame = loadMeter;
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadMeter = function() {
var i, l, t;
l = this.photo.getBytesLoaded();
t = this.photo.getBytesTotal();
if (t>0 && t == l) {
this.onEnterFrame = fadeIn;
} else {
trace(l/t);
}
};
MovieClip.prototype.fadeIn = function() {
if (this.photo._alpha<100-this.fadeSpeed) {
this.photo._alpha += this.fadeSpeed;
} else {
this.photo._alpha = 100;
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}
};
// Actions -----------------------------------------
// these aren't necessary, just an example implementation
this.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {
this.changePhoto(-1);
} else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {
this.changePhoto(1);
}
};
Key.addListener(this);

Create A Photo Gallery Tutorial
this is a great turtorial. The only problem is I am having a hard time getting it to work for Flash 5. I downloaded the Flash 5 version and when I tried to test it I got this error message:Error opening URL "file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/SUZANN%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/Rar%24DI03.344/animation/image0.jpg"

Any suggestions how I can get this MX version to work with flash 5? My images are just not loading at all.

The MX version works fine. But I have not worked in MX I am more comfortable with 5. I will make the switch once I am through with this project.

thanks
SuzyQ

Create A Photo Gallery Tutorial
Create a Photo Gallery Tutorial
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm

I found this great tutorial on Kirupa.com, the link is above. It works in MX but not flash 5, I get this error message:
Error opening URL "file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/SUZANN%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/Rar%24DI03.344/animation/image0.jpg"

I posted my concern in the MX forum and some responded you "you cannot load images dynamically using Flash 5"

I have tried absolute and relative paths to link to images in my directory. I still get an error message? So I am wondering if anyone knows how I can do make this photo gallery work using flash 5?

Help
Suzy Q

Problem With Create A Photo Gallery Tut....
Iv just had a go at the create a phot gallery tutorial and have come accross a bit of a problem.

In photo gallery i only have 2 pics at the moment and have listed these in the p.array section of the script, problem is when i publish it i can see one of the jpg's but the other one will not appear what so ever , iv checked the directories and both are in the same directory , iv even tried switching the 2 around so the unloadable one loads second but it still doesnt work.

Has anybody else come accross a problem with this tut?

Also, iv noticed that the example it gives u at the top of the tut some of the images dont appear there either , like how it does with mine. Has anybody noticed this 2?

Thanks