Flash :: Kill The Robo Demo Bird

Robo Demo
I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Robo Demo. The end product is saved as a swf file and I was wondering if there was any way to edit it in flash. The problem is that the demos end up to be around 700k sometimes and we try to keep all flash animations to under 100k. Other than inserting a preloader, does anyone know if I can save it in flash to a smaller file? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Robo Demo Help
Allo all

I am trying to get a small enough ( less than 198k) Flash.swf export on a Win2k o/s with the following configurations:

Caption :100X80

No Sound

No Fade in fade /out transition for the first and last frame

Play back controls: Steel with progress bar

Frames: 22

Movie sieze:

Width: 680

Height: 530

With percentage:100 , for dimensions.

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All the above configurations include a plain background (blue) with minimum user icons. Are there any another configuration settings that I am missing i order to get the file seize down with ,no loss in quality?

Any feedback is much appreciated

Robo Demo Does Not Work With Flash MX 2004
A heads up for those of you looking to purchase RoboDemo and edit movies in Flash with the FLA Module:

The FLA Module does not work with Flash MX 2004. The cursor motion tweens are misdirected for every mouse action. The FLA Module will also corrupt the import function on your system, preventing the import of movies, sound, and some images.

Macromedia just bought out robodemo, so there may be a fix in the future (no date set, and no promise that these problems will be solved), but for now, it doesn't work. The product doesn't come with any free customer support, and they won't stand behind the product (the customer support email address kicks back a 'not-received' message) - too bad, because it'd be pretty slick if the whole thing worked. just a heads up...

Robo-Recon: Flash Platform Game
I've been wanting to create a platform game for soooo long. I found the tutorial by Nathan Stockton on Kirupa, and got to work modifying it...

What I've come up with thus far is a game called Robo-Recon. I'm hoping to create a few more levels, but I'm gonna be screwed without a bit of help from an action script guru.

Anyway, you can see my modifications to nathan's tutorial here:
www.vectortrance.com/game/game.html

You may download the source from
www.vectortrance.com/game/robo-recon.fla

A Bird
What i need to do is make a small bird fly across (from left to right) the header graphic of my page. Im pretty new to flash, but i do know how to make it JUST move from one side to another. I want to be able to make the wings move up and down as though its flying while actually moving.

If someone could help me out, ill be on aim @ yo MrStiffy.

How To Design Bird
hey can any body help me how to design a bird and then animate it if any tutorial is there i would be highlt obliged

regards

Hussain

Flying Bird
I am new to Flash. I just upgraded to CS3 and am trying to create an employee website with a flash file. I created my design in Photoshop and am using Fireworks to create my slices and Dreamweaver to finish it off. I am not sure if I need to do my slices first in Fireworks and then import that into Flash to create my animation. anyone know?

also, for my flash file, I have a scene with a tree, buildings, grass and clouds. I wanted to add a bird flying, some moving clouds and a light flashing on and off. The problem I am having is with the bird flying. I found animated gifs on the internet and tried to use those with a motion guide but the animated gif won't work. I tried doing my own animation with a bird with it's wings up and then down. It is very choppy and I know I didn't do it the right way. I used all kinds of keyframes and motion tweened between each one and then added motion guide. Can anyone help me out? I just want a small black bird flying across my scene and I want to do it the easiest way as possible. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Flying Bird
I make a bird that wave it wings
I make it fly with random motion
but how do I make it point it's nose in the right direction?
tricky huh!!

Exploding Bird
Hello! I have an animation of a bird flying that starts when the "our work" button on our site is rolled over. I would like to make this bird explode somehow, where ever he is atthetime, when the button is released....then, the "our work" section would load. Any ideas?

Flying Bird
I make a bird that wave it wings
I make it fly with random motion
but how do I make it point it's nose in the right direction?
tricky huh!!

Bird Flock
I once saw an animated bird flock, it was a gif or a swf.
You know where can i find one that is animated to use in a flash animation?

Random Bird Movement
Does anybody have any random code I can slap on a movieclip that will look like a bird (seagulls) moving in the distant? I tried tweening it it but it just looks too repititive and boring.

I'll have at least 5 birds that I want to animate, I figure it will be easier if I just do it with code.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Creating An Animated Bird
I am trying to incorporate a "near realistic" animated bird into my website, but I don't know how to go about it. I want the bird perching, and later flying away just as birds do. I was hoping may be someone can point me in the right direction. Anyone seen something like this done before? thanks

[F8] Flying Bird Animation
Im trying to make a bird fly and move around the screen at the same time but im not sure how to do it. I already made the layers of the bird flying and i can set it up so the frames change and its wings flap ... but how do i loop the flying and make the birds move around? Thanks!!

Flying Bird In Flash
I am new to Flash. I just upgraded to CS3 and am trying to create an employee website with a flash file. I created my design in Photoshop and am using Fireworks to create my slices and Dreamweaver to finish it off. I am not sure if I need to do my slices first in Fireworks and then import that into Flash to create my animation. anyone know?

also, for my flash file, I have a scene with a tree, buildings, grass and clouds. I wanted to add a bird flying, some moving clouds and a light flashing on and off. The problem I am having is with the bird flying. I found animated gifs on the internet and tried to use those with a motion guide but the animated gif won't work. I tried doing my own animation with a bird with it's wings up and then down. It is very choppy and I know I didn't do it the right way. I used all kinds of keyframes and motion tweened between each one and then added motion guide. Can anyone help me out? I just want a small black bird flying across my scene and I want to do it the easiest way as possible. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Flying Bird For Flash
Hi guys

I need to make an animated vector flying bird. Not a bird drawing but a bird shape only. First i tought that making some modifications to he vector and then doing a shape tween would be enough but i havent been provided by a good shape....

I got Poser 6 but even i have basic knowledge about 3D programs like Lightwave i'm stuck with it. I was told you can animate animals with it but i haven't been able to change the character.

Can anyone point me to a basic tutorial for Poser 6, a model ti import into Poser or maybe any other idea on how to make a simple flying bird.

[MX04] My Bird Gets Stuck At A Certain X Coordinate
Hey gang,

I'm working on a site that includes an animated hummingbird and it's supposed to hover around some flowers in kind of a circular pattern. My problem is that it gets stuck at a certain x coordinate and then just moves up and down. You can see it HERE . Watch the bird for a few secs and you'll see it stick.

I've kind of cobbled my code together from a shooter game I was working on a while ago, and I've forgot where I found the tute or the source code so I don't remember exactly what it's doing. Can someone look at it and tell me where it's sticking?

code: var flightAmount:Number = 75;
var flightSpeed:Number = 7;
myBird.onEnterFrame = function() {
moveBird(this);
};
function moveBird(bird) {
var dir:Number = (Math.round(Math.random()*10) == 0) ? -15 : 15;
bird.ang += dir;
bird.ang = bird.ang%360;
var x:Number = Math.sin(bird.ang*(Math.PI/180))*flightSpeed;
var y:Number = Math.cos(bird.ang*(Math.PI/180))*flightSpeed;
if (bird.birdFlight._x+x<flightAmount && bird.birdFlight._x>-flightAmount) {
bird.birdFlight._x += x;
}
if (bird.birdFlight._y+y<flightAmount && bird.birdFlight._y+y>-flightAmount) {
bird.birdFlight._y += y;
}
if (bird.birdFlight._rotation+dir<10 && bird.birdFlight._rotation+dir>-200){
bird.birdFlight._rotation += dir;
}
}
myBird.ang = 0;
myBird._y = 225;
myBird._x = 250
myBird._xscale = 70
myBird._yscale = 70

Any help is most appreciated!

-Sandy

Hrmm... Animating A Bird Flappin It's Wings
Basically i got 4 birds on fenceposts, and when i click on em i want them to fly away..... that's not really my question tho...i just need some animating tips on moving the wings... i've dinked around with em for awhile but can't get em to look right, here's the .fla

it looks cheesy as hell, but i'm bored and im just experimenting =D

Bad Demo
I downloaded the trial version of Flash MX from Macromedia.com, all 46mg of it (bearing in mind im a 56ker). After a 2 and a half hour wait, the poxy thing didnt download right. Instead of a .zip file or a setup program, all i got was a "file" which prompts the "open with" window. Im extremely aggetated by it and was wondering if anyone knows how i could get it to work properly without having to download the god damn thing again.

Any help appreciated.

UKM

CD Demo CD
I am makeing a cd demo for a local company, and i am having trouble with a "if" statement

my code is
code: on (press) {
if (slider == "open")
gotoAndPlay("Close")
}

the script contains no error, but it is not doing anything

if you cant tell by the wording of my frames i have a sliding interface and the information displays behind it, each time a new button is pressed, i want it to close, and then re-open with the new information, any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Getting A Demo From AS2 To AS3
Most the demos i find on sites with tutorials are still in AS2, i know very little AS2 and prefer AS3 because of how solid it is. I recently found a demo on how to make a jet pack(it messes with some different equations to create gravity, etc...). I'm trying to bring it over to AS3 so i can expand upon it and create something. I've been trying to do it, but i cant figure it out. They have an enter frame event that checks for different things including Key Downs but i cant get this to work out right in AS3. I attached the AS2 original demo file if anyone is willing to help me out please just post the code in AS3 i would greatly appreciate the help. If you want to see what i have in AS3 so far please just PM me. If i can figure this out soon i'll post what it looks like in AS3 for anyone else that might try this and get stuck. I've only been doing actionscripting for about 3 months at this point but i have a very good understanding of it. THANKS FOR ALL HELP!

Looking For Demo
I once saw a multimedia demo that shoed the advantages of using Flash to build a Web application. This particular demo emphasized the fact that in a Flash app there was no need to use the "Back" button. It went on to demonstrate that whe you went back or made a mistake in an html app you were forced to start over again. I need to show this demo to my boss and would very much appreciate it if someone could point me to it.

Thanks,
Al

Demo Help
Hello,

I am in need of some guidance. I am going to create a demo for an online application. The demo is very basic. It will demonstrate users where to go to login and take them through some steps on how to use the application. I want the demo to run as if they were watching a video. With the ability to play, pause, stop and rewind/foward. I would also like to have a slider as well. A great example would be on macromedias website (http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/vidtemplate_mediapreso.html). The problem is that I am not using video. I will create the movie from screen shots. Is there something that I can use that is similar to the playback controls for video? Or, can I use the playback controls in flash for a regular swf? As you can see from my thread, I have limited experience in flash. Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help.

Please Help Before I Kill My Cat
I need some help. I am creating a band webpage and they want a flash intro. ok well I want individual pictures to come up in different areas at differnt times. I can do that but I want them to fade in and out. I cant find how to do that. can someone please help me?!?!

Kill 'em All............
is it possible to remove all trace of variables stored in an MC?, oh yeah, if so how?

Please Kill Me
I "ALMOST" have this working (after something like 25 hours invested into it)

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/freqfest/formv3/index.htm

My question is to advanced to just post up here, if anyone has a REALLY good grasp of Actionscript would you be so kind as to let me e-mail you some code? Not to mention my head is POUNDING from looking at this screen all day and I'm not even sure I could form a question
also does anyone know where I can get some typewriter sounds?

Frequent-C
http://www.FreqFest.com

Please Kill Me
Hi follow DigiMONs,
I am working on a CD-ROM project, and I have a need to open up boarderless windowS with QTime file, and local htm file in it. I try to use java scripts generator, but it did not work. I was wonder if anyone knows how to make the damn thing work!!!! I have been working on this particular problem for about 3 days, and I think I am going to kill myself if I can't figer it out soon!!!! Any help will be great! Thanks you ssoooooooo much for stoping me to kill myself.

orange

[Edited by orangefish on 07-17-2002 at 06:31 PM]

It Will Kill Me........help Me...
the attachment is my work.
in fact it is a sample movie which i downloaded from here.
i have changed something, but it doesn't work.
i have write down my questions within the file's action scripts.
help me please......

Anyone Know How To Kill TAB?
I have ENTER set to activate my button and check for a correct array after filling out a text entry field, as seen here:

Code:
// The first time, initialize the counter, and pause (stop) at the end of the display time.
// the movie if this option is set
if (nAttempts == undefined) {
nAttempts = 0;
nFrameStart = _parent._currentframe;
bPauseMovie = 1;
nMaxAttempts = 1;
nPauseAfter = 19;
}

bHintPlaying = false;
if( bHandlersInitialized == undefined ){
bHandlersInitialized = true;

// for pausing the movie
onEnterFrame = function () {
if( _parent._currentframe - nFrameStart == nPauseAfter ){
if (bPauseMovie) {
_parent.stop();
}
}
}

// for triggering Hint Captions
onMouseMove = function () {
if( _xmouse < user_input._x + user_input._width &&
_xmouse > user_input._x &&
_ymouse < user_input._y + user_input._height &&
_ymouse > user_input._y ){
if( bHintPlaying == false ){
bHintPlaying = true;
gotoAndPlay("Hint");
}
}
else{
if( bHintPlaying == true ){
this.play();
}
}
}

// For checking text on enter key
var keyListener:Object = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if(Key.isDown(Key.ENTER)){
eval(Selection.getFocus())._parent.CheckText();
}
}
Key.addListener(keyListener);
}
But TAB aslso does the same function. I need to disable any use TAB could have on this particular frame. Any suggestions?

I Am Going To Kill Myself
I di my first web page (total beginner) and each page is linked to a main page that contains an intro and a main and a preloader as well.these page are connected with geturl_self basically each page loads onto to the main. It works fine on any op in windows and on the mac osx but in other mac sistem whenever i hit the back buttons the main starts from the intro basically it doesn't read that it has been already loaded.I did publish the swf in flash 6 so maybe i have to republish all in 5? that would increase the size of my swf but is there any other options? is it a browser problem maybe i have to put some kind of tag into the html?
please help
thanking you in advance
max
www.gammacurta.com/flash/index1.html

MC Kill
How do i get this to work inside the Movie Clip?
Attached is my .FLA and my .swf (this has it working outside the MC)

Help, Before I Kill Myself
Hi, I was learning action script 2 at school (Miami Ad School). I was doing more or less fine... then, I purchased Flash CS3 thinking that it was going to be better/best/easier/more fun... And, no, nothing accomplished. Action Script 3 is sort of chinese to me (english is not even my language).

But anyway, I am stuborn, and I won't stop until I get it.
I am not looking to create amazing web sites, just enough to navigate using buttons, uploading movies, pictures and some design stuff. The problem is that I followed a Lynda.com course on how to use action script to navigate with buttons, I copied the code exactly as the instructor was writing it. Everything worked for him, nothing for me.

This is the code for just a miserable button (its instance name is equipo_btn):
----------------------------------------------------
stop();

function onEquipoClick(evt:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop("equipo");
}
equipo_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK. onEquipoClick);

----------------------------------------------------------------

And when I publish it I get this error:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onEquipoClick through a reference with static type String.

and this one:
1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 2.

Why does the instructor get it right and I don't.

I went 30 time through these 4 lines of code and everything is exactly the same except that I named the frame "equipo" and he named it "home"

I have ready a razor, a gun and I have my head in the oven as I type...

Thank you from the buttom of my heart to those who can help me

Flash Demo CD
Hi -

I'm working on a flash demo of my company website which I'd like to pass out to clients on a CD, showcasing the navigation and functionalty on the site. My question: how can I get the swf file to auto launch? Do I need to create an exe file; and if so can you recommend a (easy-to-use) program.

Flash 5/Windows 98

MattGooding@onlinehes.com

Voice To A Demo
Hello,

I have done a flash presentation. In the presentaion there is text explaining some images etc. I would like to have a voice over reading the text. I am going to hire a prefessional one but I have some questions.
What is the best format saving a voice for flash? This presentation is going to be on the web.
Should a make a new movie for the voice or just in a new layer?
The voice should syncronizice with the text.
Is it anything else I should know about this before start working on it?
How big file is possible to be on the web. This presentation is knpw about 5 - 6 minutes long and 480K.
How big could it be with the voice?

I really appreciate an answer.

Thanks
Anna

Demo Reel
I'm not sure if this is posted in the wrong forum. If it is, sorry

Ok, this is what I need done. First of all, if you have been to my site you know that my sister and I are a brother-sister tap team. We are looking to make a demo reel using some of our video clips that we have.

Now, I have no idea where to start .

If someone could please contact me on any of the instant messenger programs, or email me at michael@twofortap.com to help me, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you, and I hope to hear from someone soon!

Michael
www.twofortap.com

1.2Megs For A Demo?
Has anyone made an interactive website demo?
if you have what was your final file size?

I'm making my first one and it is 1.2megs!!!!!!!!
because it has lots of screen shots...
is this normal?

Live Demo
Hi everyone, I just attended the Macromedia Live demonstration Of Studio MX 2004 last night. I have to say WOW!!! It looks incredible - I have already ordered my new copy.. I only have one thing to complain about...

All MX2004 products require activation! It seems to me that Macromedia is taking a page from Microsoft. I personally have my single license on 3 PCs - My notebook, for travel and demo / my home office PC / and my satelite office PC... Not to mention I upgrade my gear frequently. ie: I am planning to purchase a new notebook with a 17" wide format screen, can I bring my license over to that notebook? Or are they gonna pull a Microsoft deal and tell you - sorry that product is already activated?

Anyone have an answer... I would love to talk to someone at MM about this issue. Also I still need to have the product on 3 PC's - that hasn't been an issue untill now as licensing was per user (or atleast as I understand) therefore, by never using 2 PCs with the same serial I was ok. Now that may not be possible...

Any thoughts?

Demo Idea....
Hai guys...

I am doing some software demos and presentations...so i want some creative and attractive ideas...

Is any body knows these type links....let me know....

also i want some demo models and presentations links....

Expecting proffesional and creative ideas

Please...

Demo Timer
Hi Guys

I'm experimenting with a simple game that I'm trying to develope. What I now want to try and do is to set a timer so that the game ends after 30 seconds and plays a movie clip saying "to play more please enter the password".

Can anybody help me by telling me how to set up the timer?

Many thanks

Leroy

Interactive Demo
Sir/Ma'am,
I want to create an interactive demo like this one https://www.unionbankph.com/forms_v3/login.asp and then click the "online demo"
Thank you in advance..

Flash Amp (me Or The Demo)
Hello hello
Was considering buying flash Amp Pro 3 but my programming skills aren't up to much. I tried messing around with an example i downloaded from

http://www.marmalademedia.com.au/flashamp/examples.html

I tried making my own prototype using new graphics, data and audio but it didn't work. Is this because I don't have the full version or because I'm an exceptionally bad programmer?

Beginning Demo In 3d
How can i make such a loader for the beginning ? http://www.batterydrink.com/pitlane/main.php all the tutorials show only this with numbers

JPGEncoder.as AS3 Demo?
Has anyone seen a demo or tutorial showing how to use the AS3 JPGEncoder.as file as found here?

http://labs.adobe.com/svn/flashplatf.../adobe/images/

I can't seem to find one!

I may just go with one of the many AS2 solutions out there since I've yet to dabble with AS3 (I listed a couple here and have since found several other scripts which I will add to that post), but I've read that the AS3 way is faster.

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Demo Cd Structure
Hi guys, I'm creating a demo CD but have got a little stuck. I have some self contained flash applications and they need to be put onto a cd.

I want to autorun the cd, so a menu screen comes up where you can select which application you want to run.

However i can't think how to do it. I can't really load each application into a main one as a lot will need changing in each application to get them to work with regards to scoping issues.

Does anyone have any ideas about the best way to do this?

Could i run the main menu at startup, then when you select an application that application starts up and the other one closes?

Flash Demo Help
Hi Friends,

Here i preparing 1 flash demo. In this i need to implement a voice to read the contents which is display in the demo. Meanwhile i want to add some typing sound in the playback.

I called the voice by using the linkage property with actionscript.
and i called the typing sound in frames.

The problem is i cant get the typing sound.

Anyone can help regarding this?

Red5 Demo Help
I have installed Red5 v0.7.0 on a RHEL5 box and I'm just trying to get the OFLA Demo to work. I am able to get the Shared Ball demo to work.

I pull the site via http://www.domainname.com:5080/ofla_demo.html

I get a page with the player, but nothing in the 'library' and the 'video' is snow. And when I use the 'rtmp://www.domainname.com/oflaDemo' and click 'connect', I get the following in the 'output' section:

Code:
(269) Connections: true | true
(227730) connected?: true
(228260) NetConnection.onStatus:
description = No scope "oflaDemo" on this server.
code = NetConnection.Connect.InvalidApp
level = error

(228261) NetConnection.onStatus:
level = status
code = NetConnection.Connect.Closed
Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?