Flash :: Trailer Effect

Mouse Trailer Effect For Menu Bar
i want to recreate an effect that i've seen used on a lot of sites, the effect is similar in principle to a mouse trailer i think. I have a vertical navigation section on my site, nothing flashy, no drop downs etc, just plain rollover's with the pagenames. On the left hand side of the pagenames i want to have a small logo that follows the cursor up and down and moves to stick to the particular button that has been pressed, i dont want the logo to totally follow the mouse, just move along a constrained vertical line that is aligned to the buttons. any ideas, tutes or fla's people know of?. I started looking through the mouse trailers in the movies section but i'm on dial up for the moment and theres hundreds to get through so if anyone knows of a script i could look at it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[f8] Adding Very Simple Text Effect To Mouse Trailer..?
Hello, I'm new here.. great site!
I'm also new to Flash, and I'm trying to figure out how to do a very simple text mouse trailer. I checked out the tutorials on the site, but they all seem to do more than what I'm looking for (I don't want any crazy effects or anything).
Basically what I am looking to do is exactly like the map at Lonely Planet here .

Simply, when you mouse over a particular region, the region changes color and text appears next to the mouse pointer with the name of that region. Right now I have these regions set up as buttons, because it seemed a little simpler than movie clips, but if I need to make them movie clips, I am willing to do that.

Thanks for any input you have!

Mouse Trailer Effect For A Symbol Vs. A Mouse
i am trying to create a trail behind an object - like a mouse trailer. i have found many mouse trailer scripts but do not know what to adjust so that it will follow an object/symbol versus the mouse movement....thanks for you help....here is the script that i was gonna use....

//initialization
d=1;
speed=10;
ssize=10;
dif=60;

//create sample
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("sample", 16000);
with(_root.sample){
lineStyle(5, 0x0, 70);
moveTo(-10, 0);
lineTo(10, 0);
moveTo(0, -10);
lineTo(0, 10);
}

//hide sample
_root.sample._visible=0;

//duplicating clips
_root.onMouseMove=function(){
duplicateMovieClip("sample", "start"+d, d);
_root["start"+d]._x=_root._xmouse+random(dif)-dif/2;
_root["start"+d]._y=_root._ymouse+random(dif)-dif/2;
_root["start"+d]._width=ssize;
_root["start"+d]._height=ssize;
mColor=new Color(_root["start"+d]);
mColor.setTransform({rb:random(256), gb:random(256), bb:random(256)});
_root["start"+d]._visible=1;
_root["start"+d].onEnterFrame=function(){
this._alpha-=speed;
if(this._alpha<=0) removeMovieClip(this);
}
d++;
}

Mouse Trailer
I've made this thus far; would anyone know how to make sure the instances of the movie clip I'm using aren't in tune with each other (all doing the exact same thing at the exact same time)? I can't figure it out.

The .swf
http://www.geocities.com/cronobrian/fairyface.swf

The .fla
http://www.geocities.com/cronobrian/fairyface.fla

Thanks.

Trailer Problem
Ok... my problem. I have a mouse trailer/menu.

Is it possible to make it follow only in specified area. For example, cut your pages in two half. When mouse is in this other half it starts to follow mouse and when mouse goes to other half, the trailer/menu stops (following) and goes to specified location.

I hope you understand my bäääd english!

Elastic Trailer
elastic mouse trailer/follower:

how do i or wot is the actionscript to make a mouse trailer with 2 different movie clips following it. these mc's follow the mouse, but when it stops they fly past and return slowly swinging rond the mouse, i have seen it using javascript but want 2 do it in flash.

i have checked all the tutes and looked at all the uploaded mouse trailers, none of which do quite what i want.

any help at all would be great.

cheers

Getting A Trailer To Attach To A MC
Hey peeps..

What i wanna create is a MC that dublicates and fade, just like a mousetrailer - But I want to attach it to a MC that follows a guide instead of the mouse, how do I do that ?

Any takers on this

Mouse Trailer Help
Can someone show me how to make a mouse trailer??? i would really like to learn. please show me like step by sep im like a major newb at action scripting and i wanna understand it a little better.

Loose Trailer....?
I was wondering how to i make a loose trailer that increases in size as you move your mouse one way and decreases as you move the other way. Example is the mouse trailer here: http://www.designiskinky.com/coverat...isualdata.html

Trying to figure it out, figured out how to do everything on the page sept that ... not much but yeah ... just would like some help ... thanks!

Mouse Trailer
I got this script from a tutorial here. I created a mc named star and placed this in the mc

onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
i++;
this.duplicateMovieClip("star"+i, i+10);
_root["star"+i]._x = _root._xmouse;
_root["star"+i]._y = _root._ymouse;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this._name == "starParent") {
_visible=0;
}else{
this._alpha -= 5;
this._rotation += 2;
this._xscale -= 5;
this._yscale -= 5;
if (this._alpha <= 5) {
removeMovieClip(this);
}
}
}

to start with its not working for me. As soon as the alpha goes to what im seeing in the script bellow or equal to 5 then nothing happens no more mouse trail
I understand the top mouse move that it duplicates the mc and then sets it x,y position to the position of the mouse x,y. Im only guessing the i+10 is duplicatin 10 mc?

can someone tell me whats wrong with this

Movie Trailer
well guys im making this movie soon and this is the triler this is just a small taste i will be working on the movie duting the week and alot on march break it will be more fluid and there will actually be running animations when they run and such there with be fist fughtung,slips, explosisions so watch the trailer and tell me what u think and remember its not done i just did this in a little while so i could get the word out on the movie if ur wondering why thier feet are not moving its because it takes longer and i wanted to get working on the real movie so tell me what u think THANKS

Movie Trailer
well guys im making this movie soon and this is the triler this is just a small taste i will be working on the movie
during the week and alot on march break it will be more fluid and there will actually be running animations when they run and such there with be fist fighting,flips, explosisions so watch the trailer and tell me what u think and
remember its not done i just did this in a little while so i could get the word out on the movie if ur wondering why thier feet are not moving its because it takes longer and i wanted to get working on the real movie so tell me what u think THANKS

Mouse Trailer
Hey everyone, I'm using a script to have a white bar follow the mouse with an ease in feature when it is over a certain area of the flash. Below is the script.

if (_root._ymouse < 335) {
if (_root._xmouse < 530) {
// capture mouse position
targety = _root._ymouse;
disty = targety-shapey;
// apply inertia equation
shapey = Math.round(shapey+(disty/speed));
// perform animation
_y = shapey;
}
}

My problem is that whenever the mouse leaves the area to the right or below. The white bar stops immediately and doesn't ease out to the last mouse position. I've tried the script as so:

if (_root._ymouse < 335) {
if (_root._xmouse < 530) {
// capture mouse position
targety = _root._ymouse;
disty = targety-shapey;
}
}
// apply inertia equation
shapey = Math.round(shapey+(disty/speed));
// perform animation
_y = shapey;

All that does is make the white bar keep going right off the page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can see what I'm talking about at www.crudocanada.com/test

Mouse Trailer
Heres the deal. I have an pbject following the mouse with drag. It's on a task bar so the object has the ability to stop anywhere on the tak bar. BUT, I don't want it to be able to do that I need to set some parameters so it can't drage in between the button but it will stop at the end of each button and start at the next. Here my code.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// you can change speed by changing number 5 on the end with number of your choice
this._x +=(_root._xmouse-this._x)/5;
}

I can't figure it out....help

cary

Mouse Trailer Help
ok look at the attached file, *** note how it clumps up near the mouse ***
i wanna get rid of that and just make it a single strand of box's.
no clumpy!

Mouse Trailer
How do i add a mouse trailer.

I am more than a newbie, just learning so i thought the best way is to buy a swish site which i did to figure out construction from a finished product backwards.

It has worked, I am figuring this out, but the mouse trailer i thought i would add as flash effect was one i got from swishzone, where and how do i do that. the swish site i purchased was circles.

I want the mouse trailer to show up on every page. Do i put it on the splash page??? HELP please!!

Mouse Trailer
Hello everyone!

I need a "mouse trailer" made with flash(just to take the action script i will make my own design).

But i don't want like when i move the mouse the trailer to come to the mouse, i want the opposite, when i move the mouse in direction of the "trailer" the "trailer" to go away!!!

Help appreciated

SORRY FOR MY POOR ENGLISH!

Mouse Trailer
I am using a movie clip that follows the mouse on the y axis with this script:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
trgt_y = _root._ymouse - _y;
_y = _y + (trgt_y/10);
}

I am wondering how to stop the movie clip from moving when the the mouse is over the movie clip.

I want to attach a menu to the movie clip, so that when you mouse over the movie clip, a menu appears, but if the movie clip still moves, you wouldn't be able to clik on any of the links in the menu.

Mouse Trailer
how can I create this effect :

a faint line is created by the path of the user' s mouse (a map of where the mouse has been if you will) and It would slowly disapate. (similar to when a jet flies overhead but just a line)

Is this possible in flash

help

Why Is This Trailer Not Working?
I got the code for a mouse trailer from a tutorial. When I play it however the trail runs for a moment then stops. Can someone have a look and work out why please?

Also, can someone tell me how to reduce the number of 'duplicates' that make up the trail?

Hope you can figure it out!

edit: Flash MX by the way

Mouse Trailer
I am trying to replicate (in fuction at least) the mouse trailer seen here:

http://milkhandbags.com/

I looked through Flashkit but couldn't find any that had this type of flow, spacing and the fade in and out between 2 trailers.

Can someone help me out here?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Movement Of A Trailer
I'm using MX 2004 and I'm trying to have a vehicle have a trailer that follow behind it. The vehicle is control with the arrow keys...

So what would be the easiest way to have a trailer that follows the vehicle like a 18 Wheeler or like a camper...

Mouse Trailer
First of all, I am new to flashkit and would like to say hi to all!
I have created a website using flash 8. It took a while because am a total newbie. I have a great mouse trailer that is already built that I would like to incorporate into the site I built. How do I insert this mouse trailer (I have both the swf and fla files for trailer) into my new flash website. I am totally lost on how this is done.
Thank you to anyone who can help me with this.
Nakai ::

Movie Trailer In The Web
hi all
i want something like
http://them5.com/ ( click whatever video inside and watch the exsample)
a movie trailer with preloader and play before part of preloader
(not waiting buffering until 100% loaded)

do u know wha i mean?
any tutorials or forums? plx help me out
thank u so much

w/ luv

Mouse Trailer ?
I learned about mouse trailer with the tutorial in flashcircle.com.
There are 3 frames code, with duplicateMovieClip action. But i forgot how to do it . I try but there are something wrong, I cant find the tutorial because when i type flashcircle.com it links to sitepoints.com, lol. Please tell me the script or the link of that mouse trailer! Thx,

Pb With Loading Trailer
I developed a flash trailer which can be seen at the following address :
http://www.lemarcaire.fr/portail/projets/eurimages/

In fact, there are two swf : a preloader called prechergeur.swf calling the main animation called eurimages.swf.

To me, the preloader doesn't work properly, even sometimes after emptying cache, the preloader behaves as if loaded and then we have to wait a certain time until anim begins. I don't undersatnd, I already checked and recheched code but don't find out what is wrong. It looks to ma as if flash loading events are buggy.

Within the preloader swf, all the preloading code is in one frame and is as follows :

import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
var conteneur:MovieClip=new MovieClip();
conteneur.x=22;
conteneur.y=21;
this.addChild(conteneur);
//creation du masque
var masque:MovieClip=new MovieClip();
masque.graphics.lineStyle(0,0x000000,0);
masque.graphics.beginFill(0x000000,1);
masque.graphics.drawRect(0,0,1215,345);
masque.graphics.endFill();

var loader:Loader=new Loader();

conteneur.addChild(loader);
conteneur.addChild(masque);
loader.mask=masque;

loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT,handleInit);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,handleProgress);

loader.load(new URLRequest("eurimages.swf"));
loader.visible=false;
var movie:*;
function handleInit(evt:Event) {
loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,handleProgress);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.INIT,handleInit);
compteur_txt.text="100%";
movie=loader.content;

this.gotoAndPlay("fin");

}

function handleProgress(evt:ProgressEvent) {
compteur_txt.text=Math.round(evt.bytesLoaded/evt.bytesTotal*100).toString()+"%";
}

During reloading, a text field called compteur_txt is showing the percentage loaded, once loaded, it goes to a frame (still within preloader anim) called "fin" which contains the following code entitled to launch the main anim :

this.stop();
loader.visible=true;
MovieClip(movie).gotoAndPlay("go");

The first frame of the main anim is blank frame with a stop();, its second frame is called "go".

Could anyone see anything wrong in my code and tell me what's going wrong in my preloader?

Thanks in advance,

Pascal

PS : when testing the whole anim in local, all is working fine in a browser as well as in standalone player without any waiting time.

Mouse Trailer
ei...i kinda wonder what its called, the line in this site's navigation..its the line that moves from left to right when the pointer moves in the mc..ive tried searching , but cant seem to find one..sorry..

Movie Trailer In Swf
hi all
i want something like
http://them5.com/ ( click whatever video inside and watch the exsample)
a movie trailer with preloader and play before part of preloader
(not waiting buffering until 100% loaded)
should i convert media file to flv.?

do u know wha i mean?:p
any tutorials or forums? plx help me out
thank u so much

w/ luv

Interexpo Trailer
well guyz am finiding it very difficult to figure out what kinda text effect these debauer.de guyz have given in interexpo ag trailer. can anybody take a look at it and suggest me any ideas to achieve that kinda effect.
u guyz can find it in derbauer.de clients (work) section..!

Mouse Trailer Problem
I have created a simple preloader (On 1st frame: if frame 200 is loaded...go to and play 12. On 2d frame go to and play frame 1) I have also placed a mouse trailer. Part of the mouse trailer's AS is placed directly on the frame on the timeline.
My problem is that when I extended the mouse trailer's frame from frame 1 to frame 2 (I had to do it because of the need of the preloader's AS) my mouse trailer got crazy!!! It does follow my mouse, but it doesn't leave trails.
And my second problem is that when the head moves to the main movie (once it is loaded) the mouse trailer still works (the way I described it above). Propably I should wright some kind of script to tell flash to stop tracking my mouse but...HOW? ...and WHERE?

P.S. I don' t know if this helps but just in case here is the AS of the mouse trailer that is placed directly on the frame:

var copies=10;
for (var i=1; i<copies; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip ("drag0", "drag"+i, i);
eval("drag"+i).num = i;
eval("drag"+i)._rotation = 360/copies*i;
eval("drag"+i)._alpha = 100-(100*i/copies);
}

Preload Mouse Trailer
I have created a mouse trailer using an actionscript. http://www.geocities.com/samos1959/preload.htm
I put it within a movieclip and tried to load it as a preload but it does not show up when we need it to preload-Does anyone knnow how to resolve this issue. http://www.geocities.com/samos1959/olympic.htm
This is to view the olympic page that has the preload as nothing appears when you scroll your mouseover the image.

Thank you
Help asap is appreciated.

Mouse Trailer Problems
Hey! I need help really bad. I have a mouse trailer (a movie clip) that follows the mouse wherever its at horizontally. It just stays on one "line" going back and forth wherever the mouse is at. I have that using this:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
startDrag (getProperty (_x,_y), true, 1, 18, 600, 18);
}

My problem now is that i need that movie clip to only follow the mouse whenever the mouse pointer is on the same "line". Right now if the mouse is under that "line" the clip still follows it back and forth horizontal. I only need it to work when its on that line (the line where the clip is on). Does anyone know what i mean? I need this is for a menu.

Can anyone help? I'd appreciate it! Thanks.

Button Mouse Trailer
hi everyone;
im doing a movie for aquaiurm site,i want a mouse trailer of a fish appearing when i move over the selected button and the orignal mouse hand disappear,does anyone have a script for that??

Unload Mouse Trailer
Hi,
I'm trying to unload a mouse trailer when the scene changes. I've already tried attaching an actionscript to the button that triggers the scene change that says
On (Press)
Unload Movie ("/CursorTrail")
End On
but that didn't work....
I'm confused.
It's on the "GO" button at the end of this movie:

http://jizzy.i8.com/energy2.htm

Any help would rock, thanks.
Jess

Hide Trailer When Starts
Hi guys, look at this movie, and then refresh it, you will see there will be a movment slightly at the top left corner where the mouse trailer awaits.

http://www.woodstyle.nl/menu.fla

I've tried everything to hide this, I've tried setting varibles and even used a timer movment.

BUT still I cant get it to go away.

Please help me

Similar To A Mouse Trailer
Hi,

If you go to http://www.studiocmd.com/corporate/corpindex.htm you will see once it has loaded, there is a picture of a fish which shows in colour when the mouse is over it. It seems to me, that it is a type of masked mouse trailer. I have looked on this site for tutorials on mouse trailers, but only found one, and that appeared to be for Flash 4. Can anyone help me achieve this???

Thanks in Advance

Barry

Mouse Trailer - Advanced
my attempt is this: whenever the cursor moves, i want a random text to appear to the right or left of the cursor. seems like a simple task, but i am having difficulty. any help will be greatly appreciated.

Preloader And Mouse Trailer Help
Hi,

I want to add a preloader to a swf which is made up mostly of a loaded movie clip I created in Swish. The only other part of the swf outside of the loaded MC is a sound loop. I have Flash MX. I don't know how to do this since there is actually only one frame in the swf file, but 7700 frames in the loaded MC.

Also I found a clip I want to use in my preloader that I don't know how to modify. I've attached it here. I need to modify the "presents" movie clip contained in the movie "amaze" but I can't figure out the masking issue enough to change the letters.

And I also have a mouse trailer I want to put in the preloader, but I don't know how to add it. Do I add it as a looping layer or scene in the preloader? It's 4 frames.

And does the preloader go into the original swf as a diff layer or scene or a separate swf?

Thank you,
Jennifer

Mouse Trailer - Text ?
Hello,

Anybody knows where to get tutorial or code to create mouse trailer-text (text mask that follows mouse pointer)?

I've been looking for it, and they all seemed hard to understand.

thx alottt...

m4non

Masking A Mouse Trailer
Hi--

I'd like to be able to constrain a mouse trailer within a boundary, as if it was masked. (I tried using a mask, but to no avail.)

Here's the code for the trailer:

onClipEvent (load) {
i = 1;
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
duplicateMovieClip("_root.clip", "mc"+i, i);
_root["mc"+i]._x = _root._xmouse;
_root["mc"+i]._y = _root._ymouse;
i++;
if (i == 50) {
i = 1;
}
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
_root.gotoAndStop("square");
}

Also, notice that I have a mouseDown event that takes the user to the next frame where a new trailer begins. There's a problem with this also:

When it moves to the next frame, the previous trailer won't stop until the code from the first frame is finished. I'd like to immediately stop the first trailer on mouseDown. I can't seem to find code to do this (thus the posting in "newbies".)

And yet one more question...

If I import mousetrailer.swf into a main movie, the trailer works if it's loaded into a level, but not into a target (host clip.)

A Flash Guru friend of mine told me it's possible to tweak the properties of a level, but I haven't seen any references to this. If it's possible to tweak level properties, I'd love to know how!

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks! (And sorry for the pile of questions!)

--Vincognito

beta website:
www.vincognito.com

Mouse Trailer (y-axis)
Hi, I would like to create a mouse trailer however i only want the trailer to follow the mouse on the y-axis. I must also be able to configure the co-ordinates that i would like the trailer to appear.

Please help because this simple task is causing me much brain damage!!

Mouse Trailer, Add Randomness?
I'm not sure I have worded this very well, but I hope someone can help me out.
What I'm trying to achieve is to have a mc that follows the mouse, but has randomness added, so you don't have complete control over it.
If you have a look at http://195.92.224.73/j20/content/host.asp
you will see an example of what I am trying to achieve
Alternatively, if anyone knows how else to achieve this effect?

JennyJ

Mask Mouse Trailer
Help please.
Been trying to work this out all morning. I am trying to acheive this effect:

http://www.fabrislane.co.uk/

I have a mask following the mouse but when the mouse stops the mask keeps going. Any ideas on this??

Please Help With Simple Mouse Trailer
This mouse trailer works when exported as flash7 or below, but doesn't work when exported as flash8. What am i doing wrong?

I just have 1 mc on the stage with this code:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
dupe = 1;
max = 25;
x1 = _xmouse;
y1 = _ymouse;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
attachMovie("line", "line"+dupe, dupe, {_x:x1, _y:y1, _xscale:(_xmouse-x1), _yscale:(_ymouse-y1)});
x1 = _xmouse;
y1 = _ymouse;
dupe++;
if (dupe>=max) {
dupe = 1;
}
}
The line movie clip, is just a clip with a line that fades in 25 frames.

Here's a link so you can see what happens:
http://www.brand-wagon.com/trailer.html

You can see the line movie clips break apart for some reason. But this does not happen when exported as flash7. It's very strange. Any suggestions?

Problem With Mouse Trailer
I am trying to make the mouse trailer seen here:

http://milkhandbags.com/

I looked through Flashkit but couldn't find any that had this type of flow, spacing and the fade in and out between 2 trailers.

How the heck do I do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Mouse Trailer Issue
hi there!

i found the following script for at mouse text trailer:

Text = "WELCOME";
letters = Text.split("");
letterformat = new TextFormat();
letterformat.font = "Verdana";
letterformat.align = "center";
letterformat.size = "10";
spacing = 8;
speed = 3;
for (var LTR = 0; LTR<letters.length; LTR++) {
var val = 255*LTR/letters.length;
letterformat.color = val << 16 | val << 8 | val;
mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(LTR+"l", LTR);
mc.createTextField(letters[LTR]+"t", LTR, LTR*spacing, 10, 20, 20);
with (mc[letters[LTR]+"t"]) {
text = letters[LTR];
setTextFormat(letterformat);
selectable = false;
}
if (LTR) {
mc.prevClip = _root[(LTR-1)+"l"];
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (this.prevClip._x-this._x+5)/speed;
this._y += (this.prevClip._y-this._y)/speed;
}
} else {
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (_root._xmouse-this._x+10)/speed;
this._y += (_root._ymouse-this._y)/speed;
}
}
}

what i want to do is only showing the mouse trailer when the mouse hits one certain movieclip. i've tried several things with the hittest script, but i just can't get it to work. can anyone help me???

Trailer Effect - Please Help

Hi,
Can anyone help me achieve the mouse trailer effect as seen on http://www.winnerssociety.org/ ? If not, what do you call this type of animation?
Thanks alot!!!

Trailer Effect - Please Help

Hi,Can anyone help me achieve the mouse trailer effect as seen on http://www.winnerssociety.org/ ? If not, what do you call this type of animation?Thanks alot!!!

Hi,
Can anyone help me achieve the mouse trailer effect as seen on http://www.winnerssociety.org/ ? If not, what do you call this type of animation?
Thanks alot!!!