Flash :: Rollover Animation

Trouble Adding Animation To Existing Rollover Animation
Hey all,

I'm using Flash 8. I have a picture of a building which is segmented into floors. Upon rolling over a grouping of floors the user sees either a blue overlay, indicating they can click, or a gray overlay simply describing what the floor is. I already have some actionscript in place and I don't need to alter it, I just added more animation to an existing movieclip rollover, but it's not quite working. On one of the floors that rolls-over gray, I want an additional rollover with some text. So I made a movie clip of the rollover animating out and the type coming in and I just added it to the gray fade in movie clip since there was already onRollover actionscript in place there. However, the rollover kept playing over and over again. So, of course I added a Stop action. Then, the animation didn't work anymore, it just rolled over to the final state of that animation. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do, or what I can do as an alternative? I'll post the actionscript in case that helps. Like I said, the rollover "rolls-over" but either loops (without a Stop action), or rolls over to the final frame in the animation (with a Stop action).

Thanks!
Mc

Button Animation That Ends Animation On Rollover
I design a button that glows on over. So the person rolls over the button and it glows other wise the button does nothing.

What I want is the button's glow animation to finish the animation after the person moves the mouse away. So once the mouse touches the button it starts the animation and if the person moves the mouse away the animation completes the time line(glow).

I designed a button with the glow as a separate animation/movie clip.

The animation is on the over state. But it does not play all the way threw the animation unless the person keeps the mouse over the button.

Please help me get this simple problem to work.

Sassycassie

[CS3] Adding A Rollover Animation To An Existing Animation?
Hi there,

Sorry if the question sounds a bit confusing, but I've previously managed to create rollover animations for static movieclips, but I'm really struggling to add a rollover animation to a movieclip that already has an existing looping animation, and also ensure that there is a smooth transition regardless of where the looping animation has reached? Similar to what's in the following sites:

http://unlimited.orange.co.uk/flash/go

http://www.ileduboucanier.com/ileduboucanier.html

Any ideas/tips/links to tutorials would be greatly appreciated!

Animation Rollover
I am trying to get the same effect as the links on http://www.mspfilms.com/mspstoref.htm. Can someone please give me an idea of how to get it? I thought I had figured it out by using text masking, but when I test the movie the mouse has to be completely still over the link to get it to work. If the mouse moves at all, I looks like it is trying to constantly start the animation over. Please help.

Rollover Animation
Hi Guys.

I was wondering if someone could tell me how the rollover animation on the top navigation buttons was made on this site --> www.fabolous.com . Could someone please give me the scripting they would have used?

Thanks in advance.

Rollover Animation
Help please..im going mad.

Im trying to make an interactive 'Word Map' with different continents that are highlighted when you rollover. You click where you want to go and a menu appears etc.

Im stuck at the first hurdle. I know I dont want to create a button, I want an animation, movie clip.

So, if i try making a rollover for America, I just want the area to be highlighted and not triggered by an invisiable square around it.

Thanks for the help....Ive look at tutorials etc but couldnt find anything.

Rollover Animation
How do you get a button rollover sequence in Flash MX where the following occurs:

1. Let's say you have a light blue rectangle with some text on it sitting on a white background.

2. As a mouse scrolls over the button, the rectangle first changes to a darker blue, and THEN changes to white (on a white background, thus making the rectangle "disappear" on the screen) leaving just the text visible.

The whole rollover sequence lasts about 1 second. I understand the up state of the button, but can't figure out how to make 2 things happen in the over state.

For reference please visit www.allmediastudios.com

Click on Launch current site. Then click the Enter "without intro" link.

That will open up a new window, and then you can see exactly what I'm trying to duplicate at the bottom of the screen. You will see three "button" links:

Newsletter-Contact
Replay Intro
AMS Message Forum

Thanks in advance for any insight!

Rollover Animation
Sorry for the very basic question, but I am not able to use rollovers to make Flash (ver 5) go to different frames. Press or release can make it happen, and I can use rollovers to change a graphic, but I can't make the rollover start the timeline rolling or make it go to a specific frame. I'm sure it's something simple.

Any hints?

Thanks,

Datta

Rollover Animation
Ok if u check out this site im working on:

http://www.josephsernio.com/test

Very bare for the moment if u rollover a nav button it has a rollover rollout animation..but if u point the mouse arrow to the top or bottom of any of the buttons it sometimes gets caught in a state of confusion. Like its not sure if the mouse is on rollover or rollout? I would like to know how to remedy this situation. Thanks all.

Here my AS for one of the nav button MC's:

ActionScript Code:
stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

this.onRelease = function(){
getURL("http://www.ultrashock.com","_blank");
}

Animation Rollover Button
Hello,

If I have a movie clip or instance called Roll and I want rollover effect, do i add the following code to the button?

on (rollOver){
Roll.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

on (rollOut){
Roll.gotoAndStop(_currentFrame);
}

and add stop() to the last frame in Roll.

Is the code above correct?
Pls reply soon, Thanks

Su Lin
http://tsldesigns.com

Mouse Rollover Animation
Hi! How can i make rollover events, like when I put the mouse over a button or graphic, and this one changes in an animated form.

Thankyou,
Juan.

Simple Animation After A Rollover
I am doing a simple rollover animation with a clip that I have targeted from a different movieclip. Problems though. How do I target it within the onclipevent?

onclipevent (_root.clip.rollover) {
_root.clip.duplicateMovieClip("clip"+i, i);
_root["clip"+i]._alpha = random(20);
_root["clip"+i]._rotation = random(360);
i++;
}

You can't target it like that. What do I do? Give me some ideas.

Thanks!

Rollover/Rollout Animation Help
How could I make a button animate when rolled over, and then play another animation on the same button when rolling out?
An example of something similar to what I'm referring to is included on this site:
http://www.layerbit.com/en004l/index.htm
(the buttons on the bottom; services, portfolio, etc.)
and
http://www.twelveten.com/12102.html
(enter the site; the navigation on the right)

Thanks for any help!

Button Rollover Animation
Hi guys, if anyone could help me I will be your best friend
Im wanting to achieve a certain look to some buttons im producing to a website im currently putting together.
I want the buttons to have animation on it when you run the mouse over it, but then to animate back again when you take the mouse off again.
I've read through the following tutorial:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-804/index.php
Which helped up to a point, the trouble being, the animation that I want to take place when moving mouse off of button isn't the reverse to the animation when the mouse runs over it (does that make sense? lol) ... its basically a different animation (ever so slightly) off the button than over it.
Possible at all? again any help much appreciated.

Continuos Animation On Rollover?
Could someone give some advice or url's to help me get a continuos animation playing on (rollover) of a button. What I want is to have a continuos animation playing when the cursor is over a button. It sounds simple when put in text but i've had trouble in controlling a movieclip to run continuously regardless of its position in the timeline. The buttons I want to have this animation effect are my main menu buttons, which is consistent throughout my whole site, I think I need to embed an animation within a movieclip which is then controlled by code (obviously) but im really confused, any help would be great

thanks

Animation On Rollover Buttons
how do you make buttons do an animation while the curser is on the button (the rollover part)?

Having A Rollover Sound In Animation
Plain and simple, i just need to know how to get a sound to play on a rollover of an animation. Does it stop the animation to play the sound? Or will it just play while the animation is playing? I want the animation to loop and the user not to be aware of the sound until they rollover it. Thanks

Rollover Sound On Animation
Hi i just need to know how to add a sound when you roll over the animation. Does it matter what frame it plays on? I just need some assistance in this process. Shouldn't be that hard. Thanks

Button Rollover/Animation Help
Hey,

I attached a file of a project I'm working on. I am somewhat new to flash but have never really gone in depth about buttons. I want to make each mountain a button, so that when you rollover it, it will act as a tab and rise up, when you roll off of it, it will fall and bounce back to place. I've seen this done on other sites, but have no clue how to do it. I know there is up, down, and over states of a button, but I need a serious in-depth walkthrough.

Preferably, I'd like to have it where once the mouse rolls over a "tabbed" mountain, the contents of that mountain, hidden inside the rest, will rise up with the rising of the highlighted mountain, much like a filing cabinet.

Rollover Animation Problem
So i've got a button that is supposed to have some animations go on and change color when i rollOver, and have them reverse when I rollOut

Code:
on (rollOver) {

//Movieclip GotoAndPlay Behavior
this.movie.gotoAndPlay("grow");
//End Behavior

}

on (rollOut) {

//Movieclip GotoAndPlay Behavior
stop();
this.movie.gotoAndPlay("shrink");
//End Behavior

}
It works, but if I rollOut before the rollOver animation is finished, it just goes to the last frame of the rollOver animation and sticks there.

Any suggestions?

Different Animation On Rollout Than Rollover
Hi guys....
I know how to make a button animate in and out using an MC and lil piece of code.... My question is; How to do this effect, but with a different animation on rollout, rather then the MC just play backwards....

cheers for any help

Animation To Still Image On A Rollover
I am trying to achieve the same effect as the McGraw-Hill website http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/
where the animation stops and goes to a still image when a rollover is activated. I am not exactly sure how to script this. Right now the rollovers and animation work, but I am unsure about how to make the animation stop and go to a still picture while on the rollover. Can anybody help me out?

This is what I have right now:

on(release)
{
getURL("http://www.velazquezpress.com", "_blank");
}

on(Rollover)
{
gotoAndStop("Layer 2",1);
}

Button Rollover Animation
I created a movie clip to use in the "over" frame of a button. I'm trying to figure out how to allow the movie clip to continue running after the cursor rolls out of the button's active area, instead of reverting back to the "up" position right away. Thanks for any help, I'm realy new to all of this.

[F8] Want Animation To Keep Playing On Rollover
See the 4 mound things to the right?

http://nightshadow35.tripod.com/

When you rollover them the animation will keep playing right? Im using an old code which does not work well if I want to duplicate the buttons. Forcing me to rename the movie clip's instance name which plays the animation for each duplicate i make.

See I want to make a ridiculous matrix of those.

I tried putting the movie clip on the 'Over' frame in the button but it only plays when the cursor is over the button. I want it to complete the animation even though my cursor glides off the button. Did anyone understand that?

So uhm. Please help.

Dynamic Rollover Animation
To be honest, I'm not even sure if they're called dynamic rollovers. :| I'm a self-taught Flash 8 user, and I've never read a tutorial, so I'm not the most competent. I've picked up how to make rollover animations and how to make the inverse of the animation happen on rollout, if you know what I'm talking about.

Now, to the problem. I'm making a website in majority xHTML/CSS yet the navigation will be done in Flash 8. Basically, the design is based on a scraggy torn cardboard theme, and the navigation buttons in their normal state will be little cardboard tabs hanging out horizontally from beneath the layout.

As the tabs are rolled over, I'd like them to slide out horizontally and then expand downwards to provide space for content. Say, for example, the user rolls over the tabs for a second or two, and the tab slides only half of the way out, I'd like on roll out, for the tab to slide back in from half way out. Similarly, if it where to slide all the way out, then expand half way, on roll out, I'd like it to then retract half way and slide back in.

At the moment, I only know how for the complete inverse of the animation to happen on rollout, whereby the tab will retract and then slide back in, independent upon how far it's allowed to slide out, if you know what I mean. How can I make it dynamic whereby the tab slides back in only from the point it's allowed to animate to?

I'd really appreciate help on this matter lads. Even a link to a tutorial would really usefull. The client is as stiff as rock and refuses to have the website any other way, so for the contract, I need to know how to do this, haha. Cheers lads, I appreciate it in advance.

Button Rollover Animation
I have an image of a lamp and a caption that extend slightly over the lamp. the lamp and the caption are seperate buttons and both trigger the same rollover effect on the main container. I need to record the which of he two button is being clicked, that is why I don't create one larger button.

The issue is when you rolloff one but you are still on another it restarts the rollover effect. How can I make the rolloff effect only happen when you rolloff all?

this whas my attempt but the result was no different.

Code:
// Button 1
fit1.lamp_btn.onRollOver = function() {
if (curState:String="on") {
} else {
fit1.effect_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
_root.curState:String="on";
};
// Button 2
fit1.cap_btn.onRollOver = function() {
if (curState:String="on") {
} else {
fit1.effect_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
_root.curState:String="on";
};

Best Way To Do A Random Rollover Animation
hello all,

just so you know i'm new to this forum, and a beginner at actionscript.

could anyone give me some tips on the best way to make a rollover -- but as you rollover it, it plays a random animation? (even if it's not random but one in a series of 4 or 5)...

hope this makes sense... please try and be specific with reference to the AS, or i will be confooozled..

ps. i know how to make a rollover button, it's just the random part i don't know how to do.

thanks!
betta

Rollover> Programed Animation
Hi.
Ive got a question here.
Ive got a drawing on stange, and i got an arrow there to. And some buttons. When i roll over one button, id like the arrow to go to a sertain poit on the drawing. And then, regardless og what point the arrow was at, id like it to go straigt to the next point when you roll over another button.

Basicly, id like it to go straight from point 4 to point 8 without any other.

Anyone know how or what im talkin about?

Rollover Mc Animation With Button. PLEASE HELP
I am trying to create a type of drop down menu of sorts...a movieclip that expands a graphic "window" on rollOver and contracts on rollOut. However, inside the window, in the rollover state, I want to have a button(s) that will take you someplace else. Of course, just placing a button in the movieclip timeline, inside the window, does not work. So, I tried loading the button into _level1 from another swf file. This doesn't work either. As soon as you click on the button, you have left the rollOver state of the mc, and it begins it's rollOut rewind function.

I know there must be an easier way that I am missing. But I can't find it and can't find a tutorial that covers this. I

I used this code in frame 1 of the movieclip

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (rewind == true) {
prevFrame();
}
};
this.onRollOver = function() {
rewind = false;
play();
};
this.onRollOut = function() {
rewind = true;
unloadMovieNum(1);
};

and this in the last frame:

stop();
loadMovieNum("work.swf", 1);

I have attached the file in case you'd like to see where I'm at with it.

Thanks for any help with this!!!

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,

RollOver Animation Question
Right now the actions I have to animate a button are:

on (rollOver) {
with(mc_instance_name)
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (rollOut) {
with(mc_instance_name)
gotoAndPlay(11);
}

So the movie clip is not visible and has a stop(); action on the first frame that's why it jumps tot he second frame. very old school way of doing it.
But sometimes if I roll over and out of the button to quick the button will not close the movie clip and leave it on the stage.

Is there a better way to do roll overs so to ensure that when you roll out of a button the movie clip will disappear?

reblis.com

Rollover Menu Animation
Hi,

I've had a good hunt through the forum for some help with a problem I'm having but I've been unable to find anything that works.

I've been asked to design a menu that rolls out from the side and has buttons which will point to a frame in a frameset. I'm an amateur at actionscript and after three days hunting tutorials, going through them, tearing my hair out after failure upon failure, I'm nearly ready to pack it in.

Can anyone help me out here? I've built the menu based on this following tutorial without success;

http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/flyoutm...youtmenus.html

I'm not much of a coder and despite my efforts nearly all tutorials about animated rollovers/rollover menus has lost me.

Thanks
Jason Just

Pause Animation On Rollover
Hi,

I want to a moving Film strip and when i rollover any image on film the Film motion should stop.

How to do that?? can any one help me?

Ashutosh

Getting The Button To Resume Animation On Rollover
I have trouble getting a button to resume a animation that i have started and stopped. When they rollout i want it to kinda minimize or basically keep playing but i can't get the coding to work.

I have the MC with the Button in it. Then on the over frame i have the movieclip with the instance name of 'over'. How do i get it to keep playing the animation?

thank you

Button Animation Rollover Problem
Ok, should be a really simple one, but i'll be damned if I can figure it out.

I've got a flash movie, one scene has buttons in it that go to different frames within the scene.

I've got a button, which measures the same size through all states. The up state it's just static, the over stage is a movie clip that animates to make it flash - just once - like it lights up and then dims again. Ok, this is my dilemma........

When someone clicks it, I want the movie to go to the specified frame, but the problem i'm getting is that the button then animates again after the user has clicked it. I don't want this to happen. They've managaed to achieve this on the website: http://www.2advanced.com, where the nav only animates on mouse over, but if you click one of the buttons, it won't re-animate.

Help anyone?

Button Animation Rollover Problem
Ok, i've got a button that i've created in Flash MX. This is to be placed on an html web page.

Basically I want the button to animate forwards when rolled on, then animate back to its original state when the user rolls off of it.

I've done this by doing the following:

• Created a movie clip 15 frames long, wiuth a 'stop' action in frames 1 and 15.

• Placed the clip on the stage and added the following actions to it:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
this.nextFrame();
} else {
this.prevFrame();
}
}

• To get the button functionality, i'm just going to place an identically sized blank button over it.

Basically, the above works fine, but when placed on an html page, if you roll off of it, it doesn't animate back to it's original state - whereas in a flash move, it does. I'm guessing it's something to do with the mouse x,y but i'm not that knowledgeable with actionscript.

So basically, I want the button to animate backwards when the user rolls off of it, even if it's on an html page.

I've attached the original FLA.

Thanks

Olli

Turning Animation Into RollOver Button
Hi Gurus
I'm building a Flash button for a larger Flash site and I've got a Monday afternoon deadline. I'm trying to get an animation I built to act like a rollover. Here's what I need it to do:

on Load, the swf should be static (frame1)
on rollover, it should go to frame 10 and play through to last frame
on Click, it should launch a Pop-up calling an external URL

I've almost got it, but I think I've mishandled AS in FlashMX 2004. This would seem pretty straightforward.

I've attached it for review. I'd appreciate any help offered. Thanks. Jeff

Help On How To Build In A 3D Animation (C4D) As A Rollover Buttoneffect
Hello,
I have a very short (not quite one second, at a FR of 25 fps) 3Danimation done with Cinema 4D. I have every picture rendered as tiff.
What I want to do, iss that this animation becomes a button and will run everytime there's a mouseover.
It will be shown many times on different places within the scene. Basically every button will be animated like this, the only thing that changes is the word written on this button.
What would be the best thing to realize this with in regard to keep the file es small as possible?
Should I get an animated Gif done and import this, or should I import eery picture and animate it in Flash and then use this movie several times?
Or iss there any other better way?

beeing thankfull for any suggestion

rodpacker

Mi Animation Pauses Whith A Rollover
Hi there.

Does anybody know why my flash animation pauses
when the mouse roll's over the HTML graphic buttons ?
At first I thought that once the buttons where loaded
it would stop doing that, but it doesn't.
Here the link:

http://www.zona-g.com/northproyecta

Thanks !

Continuous Button Rollover Animation
Hello. I need help with a button roll over.

I made a button and made a little animation and placed it in a keyframe on the "over" behaviour in the button timeline. Although the animation is just a small effect for the button of just 10 frames, I would like the animation to play to the end even when the mouse has rolled over and out. Instead it stops playing if it rolls out. Please help me how I can resolve this.

Thanks

Button Animation Rollover Prob
i have a small graphic being used as a button... graphic is a button symbol... on the keyframe for the "over" state, it is set up as movie clip symbol. i attached a timeline effect --> transform effect to the symbol to be triggered on mouse rollover.

my problem is that when the mouse is rolled over the button, the rollover animation plays itself in a loop until you move the mouse off. i just want the animation to play ONCE when the mouse is over it, instead of looping. i can't figure this one out... i've unchecked every "loop" box i can find.

any advice? anyone... anyone... bueller?

Rollover Button Animation Problem
I'm trying to create a button that mimics the example on this page .

The only difference is my version has a seperate button instead of the bottom of the thermometer, and the actual red contents is a sentence. I have also put the sentence in a MC with an instance name of 'sentence'

The trouble is that the website above is rather confusing. I copied the code for the button, neatened it up and below is my version:

Code:
on(rollover){
if (sentence._currentframe=1) {
sentence.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
else if (sentence._currentframe=20) {
sentence.stop();
}
else {
sentence.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
on(rollOut){
if (sentence._currentframe=20){
sentence.gotoAndPlay(21);
}
else {
sentence.gotoAndPlay(39-sentence._currentframe);
}
}
The trouble is that when I take the cursor off the button the sentence MC starts from frame 21 irrespective of which frame it had reached. What is wrong with my code! My MC contains 40 frames, and frame 20 is the extreme reach of the sentence movement.

Rollover, Not Working Flip Animation
Hi all, I was wondering if someone more advanced with code can tell me exactly why my buttons are not functioning properly when I rollover them. The main code is on the main timeline of the movie to control the rollover state of the button mc. Its a simple flip animation.

Flash Version 8

[F8] RollOver Animation To Cont. After Mouse Off
Hello again-

I have 5 buttons, each of which triggers a movie clip in the "over" state. They all work great EXCEPT I would like these triggered movies to continue once the mouse has been moved OFF the hit area. The movie clips are not that long, mind you. Currently the animation will start when the mouse rolls over the hit area, but then disappears if the mouse is taken off before it's finished, whereas I'd like the triggered movie clip to finish.

If you have an easy answer, no need to read on, otherwise, here is what I tried and the additional problems I encountered:

I tried converting the one of the aforementioned buttons to a movieclip, and then labeling a frame within the mc as "_over", the which frame contained the movie clip that is triggered when the rollover occurs. It worked great EXCEPT it would only work once: the mouse rolls over and the animation plays, and then it won't play with subsequent rollovers.

So next I tried using a "gotoAndStop" command at the end of the TRIGGERED movieclip (ie. the animation that occurs when the rollover happens). I tried sending it to a frame in the timeline of the movie clip in which It resides, but all this did was make the animation replay continually. (I thought about using the "gotoAndStop" command to go to the main timeline, but this wouldn't work as this same movieclip [former button] resides in the entire main timeline and the user may be accessing it from any of many different varying frames.)

Finally I decided to add an "_up" frame on the same timeline as the "_down" frame. This solved the above two problems but brought me back to my ORIGINAL problem i.e. the animation doesn't continue after the moust moves off the hit area.

Any advice?

Rollover Animation Not Reversing Properly
Warning: I know Actionscripting better than actual Flash.

I have a rollover menu my son built that when rolled over pops up in a sliding fashion. Around the tiles that slide up he has some invisible buttons that make the menu slide back down. The problem is that if you run the mouse out fast enough the system misses that the mouse rolled over the invisible button part and the menu is stuck where it is, partially up or fully up.

We have made the invisible button really big to get around this but we are running into problems with the Flash animation messing with other div's in the pages.

What's the best way to make a rally compact rollover with motion that still captures when the mouse runs out really fast?

Thanks, y'all

Stuck Animation On Quick Rollover
I have a button that on rollover, gotoandplays a movieclip. It works, however, if you mouse over the button too fast, the movieclip animation gets "stuck" on the wrong keyframe, i.e. the playhead doesn't return to the frame I've specified in the actionscript. I've heard this is a common Flash issue- what's the solution? Thanks.

Rollover Animation

Hi Guys.I was wondering if someone could tell me how the rollover animation on the top navigation buttons was made on this site --> www.fabolous.com . Could someone please give me the scripting they would have used?Thanks in advance.

Hi Guys.

I was wondering if someone could tell me how the rollover animation on the top navigation buttons was made on this site --> www.fabolous.com . Could someone please give me the scripting they would have used?

Thanks in advance.