Flash :: Why Movie Clips Slowing Down?

Problems With Flash Movie Slowing Down After Loading Other Movie
If you take a quick look at this
www.hollyhouseweb.co.uk/hair/flash
when you load one of the bottles movies and when you close and return to the root the main menu movie runs slower from that point but if you load the box movie it returns then runs fine at the correct speed, any ideas anybody pls. help!!!!!

Slowing Down The Movie
i made an animation which runs at a conference.

everything seem to be fine, however, they want now that when a speaker goes on stage, the animation should be much slower.

is there a possibility to controll that with a button?

cheers, dimitri

Slowing Down A Movie
Is there a way in AS to double the number of frames instead of manually going back into the movie and adding more frames or slowing down the frame rate? I need to slow this movie down, but I don't want to sacrifice quality. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Load Movie Slowing Everything Down
Hey gys i'm trying to figure out why my load movies are bogging eachother down. If there are two playing at the same time. Everything just slows way down? Whats the deal?

Slowing Down Movie Clip
Hi all,

I'm a bit new to actionscripting and am struggling with what is probably a simple problem to you guys. All i want to do is smoothly slow down to a stop a rotating MC over about 5 seconds. Any ideas appreciated

thanks

Is This Code Slowing My Movie?
Hello all - I am using the following code on 16 MC's to be used as thumbnails for a photo gallery. My question is if this code is slowing down my swf? Can I delete the code and if so will that make any difference?

code:

onClipEvent( EnterFrame ){
var speed = 10
var viscosity = 1.3
xscale = 90
yscale = 90
difference = xscale - this._xscale
xvelocity = (xvelocity + difference / speed) / viscosity
this._xscale = this._xscale + xvelocity
difference = yscale - this._yscale
xvelocity = (xvelocity + difference / speed) / viscosity
this._yscale = this._yscale + xvelocity
}

Flash Movie Get Slowing Down
hi,
i am getting a using flash 8, i am using a empty movieclip in the main scene and i am loading the external swfs in it using loadMovie, but i fell that the whole movie is slowing down gradually, but when i play individual swfs it is running smoothly.

i think i have to unload external swfs every time, plz slove my problem.

Movie Slowing Over Time?
The movie in question has certain tweens that are repeated as a transition between sections of the movie. They are slowing down over time even though the frames were copied from the original tweens and only the color properties changed. During the last two sections of the movie,almost everthing seems to be getting sluggish. The whole thing is built using basic tweening animation. I have yet to determine the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The slowing is apparent to me in both the web version and the projector versions.

web version here: note the horizontal color bars and how their animation slows from section to section...

http://www.squidzink.com/client/BPflash/indexR.htm

Thanks.

Filters Slowing Down The Movie
I'm making a shooting game and when you shoot automatics they light up with the Adjust Color (brightness) and Bevel filter (not in AS). Anyway the filters are slowing down the death animations for the enemies.

Any techniques I can use to prevent my animations from slowing down?

Slowing Down A Movie Clip
I've been asked to modify an existing flash movie. The movie contains two movie clips that each cycles thru a series of events. My instructions are to slow down one movie clip while keeping the other one going at the same rate.

I could simply reduce the frame rate of the main movie but this would of course slow down both clips, not just the one. The other option is to go into the movie clip that needs to be slowed down and individually stretch all the layers and tweens to cover more frames. But this seems time consuming and cumbersome when all I want to do is slow the entire clip down en masse.

Isn't there an easier way? It seems like there should be.

Thanks!

Sound Files Slowing Movie Down
hello everybody,

I've got some sound files that I have to have in my games, however they really slow it down. Is there a way to keep their size down or to link them rather than import them?

thanks

Emily

Slowing Frame Speed Down During Movie
Hey all!

I have a question regarding fps. Is there an actionscript that can slow the fps down in the middle of a movie? I'm looking to do a kind of "slow mo" effect, and I was wondering if this is possible, or if I just need to do it manually with a movie clip or something, y'know?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Slowing Movie When Mouse Stop
Previously I asked that how to make a movie goes the opposite way of the mouse movement. Now I need to know how to make the movie slows down until it stops when the mouse stop moving. The example is at http://www.the-firm.co.uk/.

Slowing Frame Rate During A Movie
Yo pplz i wanted to know if there is any way to change tha frame rate during a movie.

im making a sort of max payne kinda game and i need a bullet time button and i think slowing the frame rate is a good way to get that effect.

if anyone can help me that would be kool.

i need the script to make the frame rate change when u push space bar.

thanx pplz

Skribble
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The greatest knowledge is realising we know nothing

Sound FX And Music Slowing My Movie WAY Down
My Flash site is running at 60fps. When I add a small button sound I compress it to mp3 at 16kbps and it brings it down to 2.1kb. But even that makes my site slow down way to much to make it even come close to 60fps. The minute I get rid of the sound, the movie runs smooth and fast. What should I do?

Background Slowing Down The Rest Of Movie
Ok, I am making a flash intro that has a transparent 1200x1000 image moving slowly in the background. The problem is when that background movie is running with the intro it slows it down quite a bit. Anyone have any ideas on how to get it up to normal speed while maintaing the background size? I have tried frame rate stuff etc. Thanks,

-Dave

Snow Animation Slowing Down Movie
Hi Kirupa,

I used your snow tutorial to create a snowing scene form my flash movie.

The problem I'm having is that its slowing down the movie making it really slow. I tried breaking out the snow into its own SWF and then loading it when needed but its still slowing things down. Could the problem because I'm duplicating the snow clip 200 times? Any suggestions on how to optimize?

Thanks.

Tommy

XML Dynamic Load Slowing Down Movie
Hello,

I've encountered an odd error. I have a movie which loads in XML files for data. It's got an XML generated menu which when items are pressed, a new XML file loads in to fill a movieclip holding text fields with data.

The menu uses a blur/alpha in effect that works very well when the movie starts. However, I noticed the frame rates drop significantly as I load in more and more XML files (which should be replacing the old ones. Any ideas?

Thanks

Elements Of Movie Slowing Down For Some Reason
I have a simple tween effect in a movie transition - three color bars, the top and bottom expand to cover content as it changes and the bars contract back to size in a new color. simple stuff. However, as the movie plays, each of the transitions gets slower. The tween itself was copied, pasted and color properties changed. What could cause the same tween to slow down? Near the end, the whole movie seems to be bogging down.

http://www.squidzink.com/client/BPflash/indexR.htm

Need some troubleshooting suggestions. There isn't anything fancy going on here. It's all basic tweening.

Thanks.

Preventing Dynamic Mp3 From Slowing Movie Down
Hey everyone, I hope someone has some prior experience on this one...

Here's what I wanted to do. I want to trigger events in a presentation-like Flash movie using dynamic mp3 files.

So, in Flash MX, I created a sound object from a dynamically loaded mp3 file. Using the sound.position property, I want to cue in certain events. For example, I have a stop() command at frame 100 and I don't want the playhead to advance to frame 101 onwards until sound.position is at a specified spot in the mp3 file.

So,...what I did was, I created an empty while loop that executes after the stop(), and right below the loop is a play() command. This worked accurately, but the problem is, the loop seems to be eating so much CPU, that the whole thing slows down. The audio plays fine, but all movies become choppy and consequently, off-mark on those triggers.

Does anyone have any suggestions besides using a loop?

Could it be the streaming, dynamically-loaded mp3 file that is really slowing down the CPU?

I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks in advance.

minsan

Flash Movie Slowing Down Rest Of Site
Hi There

I'm looking for any help on the following problem I'm experiencing with a Flash Movie (banner style movie) at the top of a web page I'm designing. The movie is only 13k but is a looping text glint effect. What I'm finding is that when it is running the rest of the site is considerably slower - notably javascript rollovers and drop-down menus that I also have in the page.

Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong with the Flash movie?

Many thanks in advance
Jules

Wierd Problem With Movie Speed Slowing
Hello,

Well I created a movie using Flash MX. The .swf file size is 181 kb's. I have it running at 18 FPS.

Now the problem is as follows:

On the computer i created the movie on it runs perfect. When the movie is played on any other computer it get very sluggish. The Speed drops by atleast 50%.

Now I have tested this by putting the .swf, directly onto 4 other computers. All of them play the movie slower then it is meant to be played at. Only the computer that it was created on plays it normally.

ANyone know a reason why this would happen?
Im going to build a pre-loader for it right now. But if the swf is already on a computer you shouldnt need a pre-loader for it run normal right?
Even leaving sit there for a few minutes the movie never plays at the correct speed.

Well thanks in advance

Easing In Movie Clip Is Slowing Rest Of Swf
I have a flash project that I am working on that includes a movie clip that uses easing on motion tweens to help make the motion more natural. This is all well and good, it is just that the easing is also affecting everuthing else in the swf. The mouse slows way down, all other motions are slowing as well.

Is there any way to prevent the easing in the movie clip from affecting everything else?

TimelineFaster Rollover / Speeding Up And Slowing Down Movie
Hi again, i've been playing and researching this for a few days now and (keep in mind i'm fairly new at this) and I probably didn't explain exactly what i needed before I posted. I apologize.

I'm using Flash 8 Professional. I currently have a movie clip (60 frames @ 8fps) that stops on the 1st frame. then on a rollOver action it goes to frame 5 and plays a tweened animation that basically moves up the y access for about 50 frames till it leaves the stage. on frame 50 i have a layer that has a motion tween that moves right behind the original on the same y axis up the stage. Then has an action that tells it to go to frame 5 and play. Basically causing it to loop. click here for an example . Anyway, Basically on the rollover i would like to ease into the animation, alternately on the rollout i'd like it to ease out and stop. So if it stops on frame 6 or 10 or 50 and starts back up i'd like it to do the same easing into the animation. all the scripting I have at this point is:

Code:
on(rollOver){
gotoAndPlay("5");
loadMovie ("sound.swf", _root.ani.sound);
}

on(rollOut) {
stop();
stopAllSounds();
}
Hope this better explains what i want. I've tried a few scripting options none seem to work well. Easing seems to be more in the line of what i need. ANY help would be gratefully appreciated.

thanks,
Mike

Streaming Music Slowing Down Main Movie..

Hi All. I have a main flash movie (40fps) and within it on level 1 another flash movie loads that plays a song (10fps)..which I used swiftmp3 for. When the music track is loaded and playing the main animations and page are Slooooow. any idea's all you genius's? thanx much!

Large Text Area Slowing Down Flash Movie
Okay, so I've been doing some searches on this and I've come across several ideas on what the problem is, however none of them have been helpful. I have a clip which contains a large body of text that is masked. The masking moves fine (it's animated), but when I bring in an external swf file that contains some image transitions into the movie clip, the swf plays slower than normal. I started checking my code, but noticed that it's the amount of text in the clip that's slowing down my movie. I've tried both static and dynamic text and it has the same affect. The only way I've been able to keep the swf playing at it's correct speed is to use a system font or save out the text field as a gif. The problem I have with that is that I'm using a super-pixel font and so the gif looks terrible when brought back in. Does anyone know of any other way around this? I know that Flash sometimes suffers during playback when there's a lot of text on the stage. How do you guys usually get around this or handle this issue and what tips can you give me to solve this problem? Thanks.

How To Remove All Movie Clips/array: Movie Clips Carry Over To Next Frames/ Scenes
Hi: I am creating a small game. So far so good, but only problem I have come across is when I jump to another frame or scene, previous movieclips (using an array) that are still running carry over to the next frame/scene.

See attached if you have some time- start clicking on answers in the game, and when time runs out some movie clips that are still running will remain on top of my end frame and carry over to the next scene as well.

Is there any sort of remove all movie clips or "clear all" type of actionscript?

thanks in advance!

Maintaining Event Behavior For Movie Clips Nested In Movie Clips
Is there any way to maintain a clip's event callbacks when said clip is nested in a parent clip that has its own definitions for those callbacks?

In other words, if clip B has a definition for .onPress and clip A has a definition for .onPress, is there anyway to maintain clip B's definition if it is nested in clip A?

I have tried doing it by making clips into movie clip subclasses but it doesn't work... but how do components work then?

How Do I Load/stream Individual Movie Clips Within Other Movie Clips
I am using flash 5

I have a movie with a huge movie clip in it and that movie clip has lots of movie clips inside that. how do I load each one individually so when the viewer clicks on abutton it starts to laod the related movie clip.

Please help.. I'm working on borrowed time and borrowed money

Accessing To The X And Y Coordinates Of Movie Clips Inside Of Other Movie Clips
lets say I have a movie clip with an instance name of "char" and another movie clip inside it with an inctance name of "ball" and when I try this I get zero:

_root.char.ball

why?

thanks in advance because you flashkit users know everything about flash in and out.

Movie Clips Within Movie Clips: Text Link Problem
Hello.

I have a Movie Clip that is my main one with another Movie Clip inside of it. In the subordinate Movie Clip, I wish to have text linking frame (13) to frame (14) for instance. The problem that manifests is that while buttons is the subordinate Movie Clip link to frames within it with no complications, the text link from 13 to 14 with its respective code links to the last frame (would be 14) in the main Movie Clip.

Am I doomed to convert all text links to buttons in the subordinate Movie Clip or is there (what I am praying for) a code to work around this and keep frame links confined to the subordinate Movie Clip? I would appreciate any help that anyone can offer regarding this problem. Many Thanks.

Movie Clips Acting As Buttons Can't Load Other Movie Clips
Frame 1 has three movie clips on it, instance names are A, B, C. I have the following actionscript on frame 1 as well:

stop();
import flash.filters.GlowFilter;

ar = [A, B, C];

for(var z=0; z<ar.length; z++) {
ar[z].onRollOver = rollover;
ar[z].onRollOut = rollout;
}

function rollover() {
this.swapDepths(0);
this.filters = [new GlowFilter(0x333333, .20, 7, 7)];
}

function rollout() {
this.filters = null;
}

This code creates a glow, obviously, on whatever movie clip I rollover. What I want to do as well is this:

I want to click on mc "A" and have it launch a different movie clip (let's say "X") on top of everything else (so that A, B and C are still visible in the background). "X" is in a sub-folder of "A" if that makes any sense or is relevant. Same kind of action for mc's B and C. B should launch mc "Y" and C should launch mc "Z".

What is the actionscript for this? Any questions please let me know. Please respond, I need this info as soon as possible. Much appreciated!!

Text

External Movie Clips With Multiple Menu Movie Clips
It's pretty late and I don't think i have enough time to search this question in the forums but here I go. Sorry If I upset someone for making a topic that already exists.

I have a main timeline that im importing an external movie clip in. This external movie clip is named "members" it has several buttons that load other external movie clips into a window within "members" . What do I need to do to make this work. Do I need to use "this, _parent, _root, level(s) or "whatever.swf". If you can help me out that will be great. I'll make it up to you down the road. No sexual favor please.

I'm using flash mx 2004 btw.

Thanks in advanced

[MX04]Movie That Works Fine When Clips Apart Acts Strange When Clips Are Together.
Hi,

I have a pretty basic movie in which a ball moves along a track.

The track is made up of 3 sections & all I want the movie to do is trace an ID number (num) that is an individual property of that clip when it goes over it.

In the first movie attached below “trackOne” the whole thing works great! However in the other movie “trackTwo” I have moved the clips closer together & the whole thing has gone crazy with the following issues.

1.)The “trace” command fires on every “onEnterClip” event

2.)A text field that is used to show the ID number only changes when the ball is fully over the clip not as it first touches it, as it does in the first movie

3.)Although the ball is full off a clip it keeps tracing it’s ID number together with the new clips number?

Anybody able to help me on this?

Screwy Stuff With Movie Clips Within Movie Clips
This is kind of difficult to explain but here it goes...
I have created a Barney's like slide site and have gotten it to work fine. the problem I'm having is when I take scroll text box and try to place it on the movie clip that is going to be the part of the site that is going to slide out.

The whole thing slides fine and the scroll box is visible. However, the text is not visible therefore I'm not sure if the up/down buttons are actually working.

The scroll box is a movie clip itself with "on(release)" commands on the buttons. The "onClipEvent" commands are added to the textbox when the scroller movie clip is brought into the slider movie clip.

Is this something that just isn't supposed to work or I am doing some thing dreadfully wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Fakeout

Is It Ok To Duplicate Movie Clips Inside Movie Clips?
is it ok to duplicate movie clips inside movie clips? Seems to be a problem here...

[F8] Help Making Movie Clips Load Other Movie Clips...
well i have miraculously figured out how to make my buttons grow and shrink simultaneously reacting to mouse overs... and even stay large when they are clicked on... however the only way i found to do this was by making them movie clips and not buttons...

now luckily the task at hand i'm assuming will be quite a bit easier than what i've already accomplished...

i am looking to now make those movie clip instances (when clicked on)... load photos into an empty movie clip that will be a separate swf... in the same dreamweaver file...

i have made each photo into a small movie clip that simply tweens the photo from alpha 0 to alpha 100 and back to alpha 0...

so i'm hoping for some code that will call up the first part of the movie clip (the fade up) when the corresponding movie clip is clicked on... and hold it... until another button is clicked... making the current movie clip play to end (fade out)... and then load the new movie (up to the middle... alpha 100) into the empty movie clip...

Intersecting Movie Clips/ Dividing Movie Clips
I've bee trying all day to find out how to find the intersection point on two moive clips with non linear lines in them.
If I use the Hit Test method it seems to recognise only the hit point when the imaginary rectangle arounf the two clips collide. Is there any way of determining the point where the lines themselves cross over.

If not I think I've got another method but I can't figure it all out.

I know at what x point the lines will cross over (the more horizontal of the two lines will be crossed every by one of the verticle lines every 1/108th of it's width) but I can't determine exactly where the Y co-ordinate of this line will be at the time.

I could sort this out if I was able to delete all of the more horizontal move clip except the point of intersection I'm looking for, I'd then then be able to determine the y co-ordinate at this point. But I havn't been able to determine how to delete a move clip for example from x=0 to x=51 but leave the rest of the movie clip on the screen.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Scifo

Creating Movie Clips Inside Movie Clips
Hello,

I am having difficulties creating movie clips within other movie clips. The following works to create a movie clip on stage with no problems...

Code:
//Create movie clip and load image into it
_level0.createEmptyMovieClip("tn1",this.getnextHighestDepth());
mcl.loadClip(String(albums[0].photos[0].image),"tn1");
However, I want these movie clips inside another movie clip (mcPics1). For this I attempt...

Code:
mcPics1.createEmptyMovieClip("tn2",this.getnextHighestDepth());
mcl.loadClip(String(albums[0].photos[0].image),"myPics1.tn2");
Can anyone tell me where I have went wrong?

Thanks!

Targeting Movie Clips Inside Of Movie Clips
I am a AS3 newbie and am working on an animated cell phone text demo for my company's web site. I have three phones, each are a movie clip with a time line animation. The three phones are all inside of another movie clip where I animate their intro. I have a stop on the first frame of each of the three cell phones so that their screens are static as they fall into place. Their animations begin on the second frame of each of their respective time lines, and I would like the animations to begin when the phones are clicked. I'm not sure if these clips should be targeted from the main time line with the rest of the global script or if it should be on the time line of the nested MC. Even if I knew where to put it, I'm not really sure exactly what the script should be. Please help! My boss wanted this done last week!!!

Movie Clips Controlling Movie Clips, Problem
Hello.

I've been trying to make some drop down menus for awhile and I've run into a snag.

I have a button that when you roll over it, a movie clip appears [jumps to frame 2, frame 1 is blank.] This mc is the drop down menu. The drop down menu mc consists of other buttons that when you roll over them they stay green, but all other buttons go blue. [done by making certain mc jump to frame 2 and others jump to frame 1 to dissappear.]

So this all works fine.

My problem now comes when I try to attach on (release) functionality to the buttons inside the drop down mc. I have the following code on one of the buttons inside the 1st drop down menu:

// Drop down menu colour changes.
on (rollOver) {
_parent.about.gotoAndStop(1);
_parent.what_about.gotoAndStop(1);
_parent.what_else_about.gotoAndStop(1);
_parent.where_about.gotoAndStop(2);
}
// Trying to get wherewestarted movie clip to jump to frame 2 on release.
// Also making other movie clips jump to frame 2 to dissapper.
on (release) {
_parent.wherewestarted.gotoAndStop(2);
_parent.mainlogo.gotoAndStop(2);
_parent.address.gotoAndStop(2);
}

So the on (rollOver) part workds great, and I'm quite pleased with the resluts... however when you click a button in the menu, nothing happens. No movie clips appear, or dissappear. I've tried it without using _parent, I've tried _root... I just don't know what to do.

How can I get a rollover AND a release action?

Help!!

DryCow

How To Make Movie Clips React To Other Movie Clips?
I'm designing this menu system that has four square buttons in a horizontal line. The premise of the menu system is when one button is clicked that button expands horizontally and the other buttons shrink horizontally and slide to the right. How would I go about doing this with actionscript? I'm using Flash 8 and Actionscript 2.0.

Problems Creating Movie Clips Within Movie Clips
Okay, I'm creating yet another game and need to create a vehicle. So I wanted to create one movie clip for the vehicle and within that movie clip create multiple movie clips for all of the parts.

So I created a new symbol, let's call it vehicle and then within that area I created all of the vehicle parts as symbols within that symbol. At least I think I did. Anyway, when you look at the library, sure enough you see all of parts for the vehicle and the vehicle itself. Within actionscript, however, I can create an instance of the vehicle. I can create instances of all of the parts, but not the vehicle.

The reason why I was going this route is that I wanted more realistic movement. I wanted certain parts of the vehicle to move depending on what the user did, but not other parts. Can anybody shed some light on this subject? Thanks in advance.

Embedding Smart Clips In Movie Clips Causes Crashes...?
i noticed that if you use more than one of those drop-down menu smart clip in the common library, you can't see all the choices...

e.g.
drop in one instance
then another directly below it.
publish the movie
select the third or fourth choice from the second drop-down
let go so that your choice is selected
now re-select the second drop-down menu...
the other choices are hidden by the menu above it.

this is also the case if you try the procedure in reverse...
i.e. if the second instance is on a higher z-plane, the choices in the first will be hidden.

it seemed logical to drop the smart clip into a movie clip then use mc.swapDepth to set the z-index

got swapDepth working perfectly
(thanks, Mac8myPC): http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...98/index.shtml

but as soon as you put an instance of the smart clip into a movie clip, flash (5 for mac, PPC, OS 9.1, g4 466, 384MB) crashes as soon as you try to publish/export/test movie.

i tried it in a button as well... same thing

i've been trying to rebuild the menu in a normal movie clip form but it seems like more pain than it's probably worth...

any suggestions?

thanks in advance,
--cera

Movie Clips Inside Move Clips. How To Control?
I have an object in this case a foot with toes on it. the toes animate as well as the whole foot moving with the nails on it. I have instance names assigned for all the mc's problem is that the toes are buried about 3 layers down inside the foot_mc so they will move with the foot as well. When I assign a function to them the error compiler does not know where the nails are . What is the best way to fix or re-do this layout?

I am a total newbie to Flash and AS3, so any help would be great

I FIGURED IT OUT.

Aligning Movie Clips To Movie Clips Within Movie Clips?
hi, i want 2 align a movie clip, with a movie clip nested within a movie clip using actionscript. When I try to do this it aligns to the top of the screen. I know movie clips have like different _y and _x cooridnates relative to the stage or whateva or something like that. Neway any one know how to align movie clip with another movie clip within a movie clip like for instance:
_root.ball._y =_root.square.triangle._y
and get them 2 be at equal positions on the stage. If u understand please help
Tanx in advance4