Flash :: How Do U Make Movies

How Do I Make Movies?
i have seen tonnes of sites that give very good tutorials about making red boxes move around screens and stuff, but how do i make that knowledge into something like www.homestarrunner.com ? their movies and stuff are my inspiration to learn flash, but for the life of me i cannot find a place to learn how to make such cartoons. please help me!

-Jimbo

Where Do I Go To Make Movies?
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please tel me

How/ Where Do You Make Movies
I JUST STARTED, AND I'M LOST. CAN'T FIND 1 THING. WHERE CAN I MAKE MOVIES

How Do I Make A Preloader For My Movies?
I know the tweens, the sounds, the movie controls and all that jazz, but I have no clue how to make a preloader. Is this a simple task or does it require a lot of work? I would like to know just how to syncronise the loading animation with the progress, and also if there are any templates on this site (I can't find any). Thanks for the help.

How Do I Get Flash Kit So I Can Make Movies?
can som1 plz help me?? where do i download flash player?? i cant find it. plz send me a link or somthing

How Do I Make Flash Movies?
yes im new to flash, and i dont know how to make like, animated movies and such

Make Two Movies Work Together
How do you make two movies on the same site talk together ? is it an easy way, or is it done with the flash movies having a "listener" to e.g. an asp page ?

Example:

http://kunde.apt.no/bates/live/golf/

I'm The New Smallfry 1 Question How Do U Make Movies
hey i got one major wuestion how am i able to even create a flash movie thaz it

How Do I Make Scrollboxes Work Within Movies.
Ok so here is my site www.stackhaus.com and you can see the three boxes. In the left box I have now used two scrolling text boxes, and they work in their own respective .fla files but the minute I paste the frames from those files into this movie, they appear but they do not scroll. Why is this?! Thanks for any help!

How Can I Make My Movies Password Protected
Will someone tell me how can i give a password protection to my .swf files.

I mean that when someone open my flash movies a window popups and ask him to Enter the Password.. And when he enters it correctly the movie will start..

I hope some one may help me

How Make IN And OUT Transitions Between Flash Movies?
Hi guys!

Here is the thing: usually, I build my web-sites using a root swf movie which loads external swf movies using the loadmovie command through navigation buttons. Thus, in order to have a transition (or effect, like a fade-in) in the start of the loaded movie, all that I have to do is put an effect on the beginning of its timeline. When the button loads the external movie, it has an effect on its timeline and the fade-in is presented. This is a no-brainer...

However, let´s say that I will load another movie and, before this one gets loaded I want the first one to fade-out (or any other effect)... How would I make it... I can´t put the effect on the timeline ´cause the loadmovie command has to be on the buttons...

I think the best way to do it is apply the effect in the timeline of the container movie (in which the external swf is loaded)... Something like this: Whenever I click on a button, the container movieclip goes to frame x (which has the tweeing effect) and once the tweening is done it loads another movie into the container MovieClip.

Can you guys help me?

Thanks in advance.

Make One Button Call 2 Movies
I have a button that calls a movie with a rewind on it and I need that button to call to movies at the sametime Flashmech came up with these actions and they have worked out quite well.

im trying to get the maximus button to call maximus1 & cmanson1 at the sametime

ActionScript Code:
stop();

function playBack (name:String):Void {
var mc = this[name];
if ( mc.played ) {
mc.played = false;
mc.onEnterFrame = reverseNow;
} else {
mc.played = true;
mc.onEnterFrame = playNow;
}
}

function reverseNow (Void):Void {
this.prevFrame();
if ( this._currentframe == 1 ) {
this.stop();
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
function playNow (Void):Void {
this.nextFrame();
if ( this._currentframe == this._totalframes ) {
this.stop();
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}

maximus.onPress = function (Void):Void {
playBack(this._name + "1");
}

maximus1.played = false;
cmanson1.played = false;

How To Make Two Flash Movies To Communicate?
Hi all.

I have an HTML page with 2 flash movies in it. 1st movie is an FLV, and I want this to play till the end, then to stop and tell the 2nd flash movie located somewhere else on the same page to start playing.

Anybody knows a good and easy tutorial for designers? or maybe can give out an example source file?

Please help!

Thanx in advance

cheers

How Do You Make Duplicated Movies Shoot On Another Movie
I know this is for a game but I hope I could get an answer from you guyz who are good in AS.

I got a duplicated MC from a enemy and i want to be able to make it shoot randomly.

Im a new in AS and im doing this game with tuts from FK but this part isnt metionned.

Could someone help me out please.

Thanks in advance,
Sky

How To Make Movies Load Inside A Scene...
i'm completley lost on how to do an actionscript in scene loader. can you guys help me?

How Do I Make Flash Movies Super Smooth?
I've seen some really smooth animations on the web and I was wondering what I need to do to make my movies animate smoothly too. Do I only need to bump up the framerate? I know scene complexity is something to consider. I guess what I'm looking for are some guidelines to making animations smooth. I have flash MX by the way.

Here's an exampleAEM website

Make Other Movies React To Mouse Hits
teke a look at thia

www.hellborn.com

you can slap the robor around but it doesnt seem right that the buttons around it are still so iv been trying to find ways i can make the buttons move sorta reacting in a way to the speed you hit the robot at.

this is a big ask but can anione help me please.

thanx in advanced

Load Movies Make The Swf Slow Animation
hii
i've created a site in flash of a gallery. its loading swf files of images and animations. i've made it with flash mx and export the swf ver 6. all the animations have a preload and all 24 fps.

the problam. some of the animation play smooth . but some of them play very slow. swf with 50 kb play great and somtime a swf 10k made of vector only play very slow. it happen only when i play it inside the main flash site (load into it). if i play the swf by it self its very smooth and fast.
how can i fix it?

thanks
ari - tintoon -

Make Movies Play Sequentially, Then Stop.
Hey, I've never quite been able to get programming down, but I'm always trying. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

I'm using Flash MX.

Basically, I want them to click a button, and one by one leaves will move of the screen. I just want to name the leaves "fallingLeaf1", "fallingLeaf2, "fallingLeaf3" and so forth, and keep going sequentially up the numbers until there are no fallingLeafs left.

Here is the code:

Code:
on (release) {
var i;
i = "0";
var leafMarker;
leafMarker = "leafMarker1";
var frameMarker;
frameMarker = "1";
do {
i = i+1;
leafMarker = "_root.fallingLeaf"+i;
frameMarker = leafMarker._currentframe;
if (frameMarker=2) {
tellTarget (leafMarker) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
} while (i!=2);
}

How Do U Make The Percentage Loaded In The Begginin Of Flash Movies
u know the 56% loaded...etc...how do i make one of those? i jsut need a simple one...i mean, really really simple.

Make It Invisible When I Press The Buttons To Load Movies
I´m making a movie that loads in swf-movies in the main movie. But in the main movie i have a picture (rather big). An when i press the button in t´he main movie to load a movie in a placeholder i can see the picture in the main movie every time i load a movie. is it any way that i can make it invisible when i press thebuttons to load movies

How Do I Make QuickTime Movies (.mov) To Resize According To The Window Size?
Hi !!

how do I make QuickTime movies (.mov) to resize according to the window size?

for Flash movies its "100%" thingi but I dunno about QuickTime

please help

Thanks

Off topic
I posted this in Random Forum first and someone told me to post here...
so dont get mad at me for posting here

.FLV Files : 1-where Are They On Int Temp Folder ? 2-how To Make Flvs Movies ?
Quote:

1-
My question concerns about the video streaming flash files , extension .flv , which cannot be retrieved directly from the IE7 temporary Internet files ;

I´ve turned that folder head over heel but couldn´t find any .flv file as I am used to scavenge the browser cache and do with other extensions ;

What can be found are very long urls like :
(http://youtube.com/player2.swf?hl=en...utube.com/&vid eo_id=IOd_5ZRPmFs&l=179&t=OEgsToPDskJKFyDOavZ1s58f 8VnMwNU7&soff=1&sk=ZklGzv2kMbUjj_Qrv588rwU ) ;

I noticed that a recently visualized flv by means YOUTUBE , 4 days after visualization , when I got back to that URL was played at once , without the need of downloading it again;

That means the file was already somewhere on my disk.
In order to retrieve the files I have to paste URL at retrieve sites like http://kej.tw/flvretriever/ , or use Orbit Downloader ;
I got really curious where are the files and how work such sites .

Quote:

2- where can I find tutorials on how to make flv movies ??

Thank you very much

How Do I Make Lower Level Flash Movies Inactive?
I have a problem,

I am creating a Flash multimedia piece. I have my main stage and various external movie files loaded in on different levels. I want to be able to have 'info' boxes appear on request, which load in another movie file over the top of everything else. The problem is, I don't want the links on the movies below to be active through the 'info' box. Does anyone know a way to make the Flash movies below inactive? Once the 'info' window has been closed I need the inactive links/movies to revert to active.

I hope this makes sense.

wez

What Is The Best Flash Program To Make Stick Figure(death+kungfu Style) Movies?
My topic says it all: What is the best flash program to make stick figure(death+kungfu style) movies?
Since I'm using 3d Flash Animator, and all the places I goto use just Flash 5 frame-by-frame animations, were as i've been using this other style in 3d FA which goes cruddy most of the time. So I just want everybody to tell me what is the best program+ plugins if there are ones which make making stick movies easier. Thanks

Making A News Slider Just Liek In The Yahoo Movies Site.. How Can You Make It Switch?
hey all.

I recently got a app from flashden.net for my site www.freshbasilcrew.com

I don't know how to post the SWF file here, so just check otu the site, and you can see it on the main page, towards the top. It displays 4 news stories, with a picture on the right side that you can click to go to the page.

Very similar to the one on the Yahoo site found here: http://movies.yahoo.com/

However, mines does not switch stories automatically. It just sits there, and the user has to click each story blurb.

How can I make it so it switches every few seconds?Might be something simple I can just code in, but I don't know where to start. Any help would be appreciated.
vega

If You Make Flash Games Or Flash Movies
Yup, this is Spam. Put the link to your site in your footer if you want.

Has To Load Movies TWICE To Make Them Load..
Hey.. having this funny issue.. sometimes...especially online..when i make a loadmovie...it doesent always load into the main movie..(or mc or whatever)...

I guess this is a known "thing/bug"..as i experience it quite often..

i just wanna know..is it..,the movie that u load,..does it freeze in first frame... or does it simply never load??..

(sorry for bad english :P, and sorry for searching forum)

thnx in advance..

Loading Movies Inside Other Movies In An Ext Movie Holder?
Here's one for you:

I've got my main movie that has a movie holder on it (entitled movieholder.) The buttons on the left control what goes in the movie holder. In one of the movies there is a list of songs that are actually buttons. These buttons call up another movie(with MP3s). How do I get the MP3 movies to go into "movieholder" when they are being called by a button inside 'movieholder'

I'm using MX

Hope that made a slight bit of sense!

Thanks for any help,

Graeme

Trouble Creating Reverse Rollover Movies Within Movies
Hey ooh my first post.

I have been having trouble creating a movie clip with a reverse rollover effect within a movie which has a reverse rollover effect. that sounds confusing

In essence I wish to create a panel that rolls out on rollover and rolls back in reverse when the you rollout. I have done this using this script

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (rewind == true) {
prevFrame();
}
};
this.onRollOver = function() {
rewind = false;
play();
};
this.onRollOut = function() {
rewind = true;
};

However I wish to make movies within this movie that have the same effect on them. But when I create another movie or button within this movie it is not registering on rollover. I guess because the script on the main movie overrides it?

Sorry for the poor explantion, any ideas?

Movies In Movies And Multiple Scenes...grrrr HELP
Hi all!

loadMovieNum ("events.swf", 8);
level8.gotoAndPlay("DIRECT3");
stop ();

ok, i have just done a few flash movies, but I am openning swf files in my movie, however these movie have a preloader and a 2nd scene before the main scene.

The problem I have is that I need play from a frame in my main scene (called Direct3).

I used the above AS to load my movie, but I have a feeling that its not going to my requested frame label...

I am sure this is possible, please could someone point me in the right direction...

Thanx in Advance....

WolfFang

Loading Movies Into Movies With Scroll Bars O_O
I have a site where I'm showcasing my talents (Obviously figuring scripting out won't be one of them) and I load movies into the central area by using simple commands, and it all works. Now I need to have of of those movie to scroll around, because I'm showcasing banners and have more than 400 pixels of height can fit.

I was thinking of using the same textField system that I used for my news section, but replacibng the textField part was a different thing for Movies.

There's got to be an easier way though. Can anyone help me?

Can Flash6 Movies Load Flash7 Movies?
I was just thinking about this today:

Could I load a Flash 7 movie into a level of my Flash 6 movie?

thanks
Dene
www.meshybeats.com

Ummm... Loading Movies Inside Movies.... Help?
I posted a question about this a month or so ago, but now (I've had to work out problems on other sites in the meantime) I'm totally ready to figure this out!

I have a VERY large Flash Web site. So, it was suggested that I chop up the site into a few smaller movies. From there, I would set up a main page with a ["target"?] movie clip nested in it. Then, when a button has been pushed, the corresponding swf loads inside the movie clip. I think I can handle that... (although a nice tutorial would be great!)

The problem I'm having is... These swf's can be 'called' from each other, meaning the same buttons will be in each movie. However, the buttons will trigger different frames in each movie, depending on which movie you're already in. I'm betting this is confusing...

EXAMPLE: Every page has 4 buttons, "Who We Are", "Success Stories", "Portfolio", and "Contact". From the Home page you can push any of these buttons and it will go to the first frame of the corresponding movie and a quick, little animation displays as it takes you into the page. That's great. The problem is that, if you were in the "Who We Are" page and clicked "Contact" it should NOT go to Frame 1 of that movie... It should go to Frame 30, because there is a specific animation that connects "Who We Are" to "Contact" that is not the same as the connection animaton between "Home" to "Who We Are". So how do I get the code to be more specific?

HELP!

~Vik

http://www.explorecore.com/index3.html

Dynamically Loading Movies Into Movies With Variables
This might be a kinda tough one. I'll explain the best that I know how.

I want to load jpg images into a movie/button (movie clip with a button instance inside of it with another movie clip inside the button), but I need to do it dynamically.

I was thinking about naming all of the files the same but just change the numbering at the end. Then I can just use an i value to obtain the next file.

Code:
for(i=1;i<5;i++){
loadMovie("something"+i+".jpg","mv_btn_"+i)
}

so, basically I have 5 buttons with 5 images to import. The buttons already have the proper numbers on them, I just need to import the clips into the corresponding button.

Sound Linkage When Loading Movies Into Movies
I have an intro.swf file that is basically a movie with sound that is exported for actionscript but not exported in the first frame. I just stuck it in a movie on my timeline and it works great and the preloader works because it doesn't load the sound before the preloader. I use :
musicSound = new Sound();
musicSound.attachSound("music");
musicSound.start();
to play the sound in intro.swf.

However, now this intro.swf gets loaded into an index.swf and everything works fine and the sound plays as long as I have the sound included in BOTH the intro.swf and the index.swf and the sound is exported on the first frame in the index.swf. I was hoping I could remove the sound entirely from my index.swf since it already loads into the intro but so far I havenâ€™t been able to figure out how without breaking the sound. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Frustrated With Loading Movies Inside Movies.
Ok here's my sight:
http://www.fantim.org/811/index2.html
This is my second attempt at making an all flash site. I got two questions.
1. Lets say I have three movies. Movie1.swf Movie2.swf and Movie3.swf
Movie1.swf has Movie2.swf loaded inside of it. Is there anyway to make Movie2.swf load Movie3.swf inside Movie1.swf ? Does that make sence?
2. Is there anyway to load only certian parts of a movie into another movie? For example:
I have this file http://www.fantim.org/fantimshow/movies/movies.swf (Don't mind the chopiness of it) As you can see it has excess stuff on the sides. Is there anyway to load this within another movie without showing this excess stuff?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Loading/unloading Movies In Loaded Movies :|
Yeah, I know that sounds confusing. Lemme explain:

- interface.swf it's my main movie;
- interface.swf load section1.swf in a specific container called containerMC (duh! );
- section1.swf load other movie, section1a.swf;
- I need a button in section1.swf that load section3.swf in the same main container (containerMC in interface.swf), unloading section1.swf and section1a.swf.

Well... I need some tips about the action of my 'overloaded' button

Sorry about my english

[]'s
Edu

Buttons To Advance Movies Within Movies
I'm still a novice with ActionScript...so sorry about this:

I have a movie...let's call it "Foundation.swf". It is nothing more than a huge, thick border with buttons that run along the side (like using frames in HTML). One layer has an ActionScript that "LoadsMovie" onto Level 1. It starts off with automatically loading "Intro.swf".

When "Intro.swf" is done, "Intro.swf" then loads "Scene01.swf" in its place. Then "Scene01.swf" loads "Scene02.swf" and so on and so forth. But all this is happening within the "Foundation.swf" movie.

OK...all is good.

Now what I want to do...is to use the buttons in "Foundation.swf" to move whatever movie that is loaded onto that layer up one scene or back one scene, etc. So, how do I script it so that WHATEVER movie is loaded onto that layer can be jumped around within it?

Thanks for all your help!

-Darcie

Can I Preload .SWF Movies For Use Later In Other Not Yet Loaded .SWF Movies?
Hello World!!!

What I creating is a web site consisting of many .SWF files, each of which loads over the last @ _level0. The first SWF file consists of three scenes, a preloader an intro and the main movie. Once the main movie has loaded you can click links to the next pages. The following pages show a preloader and then load. This seams to work fine because each page is quite small. This is where I get greedy. What I want to do is preload four movies, say during the intro of the first .SWF file that are not seen just loaded into the computers cache, so they will work instantly when another .SWF file is loaded.

Also, If you know how to do the above. How can I target a frame in another movie when it has not loaded yet?

Thank you all for any help in advance.

Rachel.

Load Movies/hide Movies
Level 10 is my menu.
Level 2 thru 8 are movies I want to load, depending on the menu choice at level 10.
Level 0 is the main movie.

Part One:

I want to Load Movie X on level 5. When I'm done reading Movie X, I want to click on another menu pick (on menu level 10) and have whatever menu choice clicked on appear WHILE Movie X on level 5 dissappears.

The problem is that I don't THINK I want to use UNLOAD movie - I just want it to "turn invisible". And do this throughout the user experience when called upon. Any ideas?

Part Two: On loadmovie can you call a specific frame?
I tried this:

on (release)
loadMovieNum ("pres1.0.swf", 3);
gotoAndPlay (2);

To no avail. Any ideas here?

Thanks a bundle.

Controling Movies With Movies (not Porn)
Ok, it maybe questionable so i removed all but the necessary parts. I'm learning and trying to keep it interesting (makes posting questions tough though ).

Ok, in this movie when you mouse over movie one, it advances movie two to frame 2. When you mouse out it should move movie two back to frame 1. I see the problem, the actionscript must be on the button instance which only exists in frame 1. Once movie one is playing the mouseOut...err rollOut script isn't present.

How do you control the rollOn and rollOut as the "playhead" moves along the time line? Do i need to nest the movies/buttons one more layer deep?

flash movie: http://www.dns.ca/unknown.swf
flash source: http://www.dns.ca/unknown.fla

Thanks !!!

Loading Movies Within Movies Question
Hi,
I have 2 questions.

I'm making a flash website, about 20 pages, right now contained in one movie. Since the file is up to about 400 K , I'm wanting to break out some of the pages into separate movies, and then load them up with the loadmovie command when someone clicks on a link.

1) is IS possible to have a new movie load within a first movie right?? I want to have all of the navbars and stuff in the base movie, and then when you click on something, it loads up that pages' movie onto the base. this IS possible right??

2) what happens if I don't want to unload the loaded movies, and just keep them hidden and available in the base movie, so that if the user clicks on a link twice, it doesn't have to reload it, but just diaplays it? will the accumulation of movies slow down a user's computer or crash a browser?

As I said, the whole thing totals about 400K, and there is no rocket science scripting or anything, it's all pretty straight forward.

Any insight from you Flash wizards would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Mucho Garcia!
Z33man

Loading All Movies, Even Movies To Be Loaded
hi guys.. how do u do that?

see, i have a main movie and the other movies are called later on byu loadMovie, but they have their separate loading times. what if i want to load it all in one go?

can any1 help me?

Loading Movies On Top Of Loaded Movies
I'm trying to load a movie on top of a loaded movie. For Example:
I have an interface with 4 buttons on it. Each button loads an external swf above the buttons. The loaded movies fade in on top of the lower level. I want it so that when you click button 1, it loads "movie01" and then if you click button 2 it loads (fading in) "movie02" on top of "movie01". Instead, it unloads "movie01" first, then loads "movie 02". I want it to look like the movies fade in on top of each other no matter what order you press the buttons.

I have them all loading in at level 1, is that my problem?

Movies Within Movies (load) URGERNT
Hello.

Please, please, please help me.

I have movies which need to work inside movies.

I currently have the maintimline with a blank movie clip (mtClip) in it. When this needs to play inside the main timeline, it does so nicely with the script:

_.root.mtClip.loadMovie("newMovie1.swf");

That works fine.

However, when in newMovie1.swf, I need to make available another new movie. So here I have placed another blank Movie Clip instance name "moreClip". It does not work though. I have placed the script:

_.root.moreClip.loadMovie("newMovie2.swf);

This works when previewsing NewMovie1, but not when viewing the original movie.

I understand that this has something to do with levels/parents or something.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE EXPLAIN. I NEED THIS DONE ASAP.

ALL YOUR COMMENTS ARE HUGELY APPRECIATED!!!!

Regards,
TCM

How Do U Make Movies

Well i need the step by step info on how to make movies like the stop the play the pause the scene selects and more i need help on thoes things. My freind told me but i did not get it i need all info on flash 8. OK