Flash :: Wow Old Newbie

Gibbosniper Vs Munkie Or Newbie Vs Newbie
Ok Gibbosniper,

This is the start of the thread, for our contest of Newbies brains in action. Let us set a time limit of sorts, and go from there.

Again, I am far from an MX master, I just started just over a week ago, so it might take a while for me to produce something worthy of public display, but if you are patient, so am I.

Game on!

Munkie!

Keyboard Control-for A Very Newbie Newbie
I was wondering if there is a simple way to control flash animations when
pressing a key on the keyboard. Example: Scene 1 is an animation of a
circle, this scene will continue to loop until I press the 'f' key, and
then the flash movie will change to Scene 2 where we see the circle
explode. I looked around flashkit.com and found some tutorials, but I
think they used an earlier version of flash, because I can't find the
instance properties in order to change the action from mouse click to key
press. I own flash professional 8. Anyway, I can use as much help as I
can get, so if you know of an action parameter in which I can execute
this...action, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time!
-Timmy

Newbie Asking A Newbie Question
Thanks for looking at my post. I am very new to Flash and I want to make a simple movie withsome text. I know how to insert text and customize it, but I wanted to know how I could jazz it up a bit. Add some effects to it. I was wondering if anyone could help show me how to make it shine, or glimmer, or glow, or something of tht sort, you know? You know on the Ultrashock logo when you put your mouse over it, it shines? I wanna know stuff like that. Can anyone help? Is there a tutorial or we page I can go to? Thanks in advance, and thanks for looking even if you can't help...

AS NEWBIE NEEDS SERIOUS HELP
i got a problem, ive made buttons which grow bigger when the user roll overs they 'bonce up' and when the user rolls off they bonce back down ;

i made MC and on that i placed this code:

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onClipEvent (load) {
mc2 = 100;
// initialise _xscale.
friction = 0.8;
ratio = 0.3;
speed = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (mc2 != this._xscale) {
speed = (speed*friction)+(mc2-this._xscale)*ratio;
this._xscale += speed;
this._yscale += speed;
}
}
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and in side of this movie clip is a graphic in one layer and an invisable button on another layer, on the invisable button i placed this code.

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on (rollOver) {
mc2 = 150;
}
on (rollOut) {
mc2 = 100;
}
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now the AS works but i cant use them as buttons as i cant apply mouse actions. so i want them to go to the next frame or scene it doesnt work. I want the AS buttons, cause they look good, but if i use it im not sure how to make them work as buttons. PLEASE HELP.

I'm No Newbie But I Need Newbie Help
I am great at actionscripting one one side of the spectum but on the other I have no clue what arrays are. If someone could explain what an array was and how it is an portant I would greatly apprieciate it.

Newbie Help
Hi, I just created a flash banner for my webpage im starting. Unfortunately my html is not so good.

I just want to know how you can display the banner on the top-center the webpage in html. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Newbie Needs Help
I'm looking to have part of the movie read 'loading' while the movie loads to the user's computer. Anyone know how? I'd appreciate some help..

thanks

Panzerr
http://www.frostburn.org

Newbie Help....
y0y0 wat up.....im new to flash(i know a lil bit) but i know swish very well....i was wondering if flash is a language like vb or c++ and also if anyone has any tutorials or things i could learn from.....because i look at open source files and they dont help at all ....... i dont understand them.........well any help at all would be cool.......thanks

peace

Newbie Needs Help W/IE
when I play my movie in the swf player, i'm fine. it's when it preview in internet explorer that everything is shrunken and off center. Anybody know why?

Help A Newbie
Ok, I'm pretty new to Flash and I have what I think is a Newbie question. I've looked around the site and can't find an answer, so... here we go:

I'm trying to make a small movie for the bottom corner of a webpage - a team signature to be exact. I'd like to use 3 pictures(jpegs), text and some motion tweening - pretty basic.

I traced the images and converted them to symbols. The symbols now look more like a painting than a picture and that is fine.

What I am wondering is if there is a way to determine how big a symbol is when it is converted? My movie ended up being about 78k, which is way to big for such a small piece of a page - about 200px X 200px.

Also, is there a better technique that I am not aware of for what I am doing?

Any help would be MUCH appreciated!

Newbie Needs Help
Hey everybody!
I dont know if I bit off a bit more than I can chew, but I need to build a 3D room with doors that will open up web pages when you click on them...
Whats the easiest way to do that?

I'm A Newbie
Hi, I'm a newbie, I do not know if there is a fee for Flash5 and Since I'm only 12, I don't think I can pay something over $30. If you can help me make a couple of games for my website, it would be worth more to me than a few golden bars. Post ?'s here.

::Newbie Needs Help::
Hi i am doing a flash 5 animation but i am finding it hard to go beyond 20 frames. I am doing a cartoon animation and it needs to be 10 seconds long. I have done the cartoon but cannot get it to 10 seconds so i need some advice on what i can do? May be motion tweens?

Please help!

Thanks

Newbie Needs Help
I've got an image to move left and right using some buttons, which works fine.

I've got the picture behind a mask/frame so that you can only see part of it at any one time and i want to make sure that when it reaches one side it stops before the image edge is viewable.

I'm a bit new to this so any help is appreciated.

Really Newbie
I wanted to put this swf file in my homepage:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound...63/index.shtml

My code looks like this:
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="32" height="32">
<param name=movie value="images/player1.fla">
<param name=quality value=high>
<embed src="images/player1.fla" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="32" height="32">
</embed>
</object>

But when I do it, nothing shows up, and no there's no sound. What am I missing?

Thank for the hlop

Please Help Out A Newbie.
I was just wondering if any of you guys know any sites that teach how make tight footers??Or just any good flash 5 tutorial sites that use specific direction for newbies(Flash for Newbies) those type of sites.

I Am A Newbie... PLEASE HELP
i need the script for my game.. i have an movie clip that is named battleindicater and another one named gotobattle..
what i need is when the battleindicater MC and the gotobattle MC intersect.. it goes to my battlescene1 Scene..

now i tried to put this code in the gotobattle movie clip

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(battleindicater)) {
gotoAndStop ("battlescene1", 1);
}
}

it won't go to the new scene why is that? is my coding wrong somehow? i doubled checked and my scene name is right... can someone tell me or show me the code i need...

Too Newbie 4 Newbie
ive got some text plus some lines how can i change the brightness so it gets really bright and turns totally white thanks

Newbie Needs Help
my movie contains two sounds.

sound 1 is about 20 seconds long and is some kind of an intro.
sound 2 is just about 5 seconds long, but it should be looped over and over, for keeping the movie size small.

the actionsscript of the first frame is:
s = new Sound();
s.attachSound("mySound");
s.start();

"mySound" is the first sound clip; (i chose "link" in the right-mouse-click menue and the i exported the original file with the new name "mySound")

but now i m stuck. how can i tell flash to start sound 2 exactly in the moment when sound 1 stops? and how can it be looped?

i would be glad about every idea! thank you!

Help A Newbie....
....it didnt say any way where tht it has to be a flash newbie!!
...ok i have never made a "walkthrough" effect in flash(so its i am newbie to it!!)...how do you do it....i have tried...either i am making the MC's wrong...i think there is some simple "logic" which i am not getting.

HELP ME PLEASE...NEWBIE HERE
Okay i'm newbie (duh :-)
heres my question
are there any free web hosting sites that support swift
and how do i transfer my movies onto the server without a FTP...I dunno...do you use FTP everytime to transfer, wouldn't I need an IP address with that Web hosting comp. I'm talking free and most free servers don't give you and IP address or do they ??? HELP :-)

Help: Newbie
Hi,

I've just started to use Flash today (no previous experience in Flash, complete and utter newbie), I've been reading the tutorials for a few days and today I decided to try a few of them and see how I go.

I have a specific question relating to the "Dissolve Effect". My only problem is I am having trouble with changing the Alpha down to 0%. When I do, it changes the specific letter to 0% from start to finish, although I only have the last keyframe (which happens to be keyframe 40) selected when I change the alpha percentage.

What could be causing this problem? I'm completely stuck, it either doesn't have a fade out/dissolve effect at all or the entire word is transparent (at 0% Alpha).

Any help would be appreciated, basically all I need to know is how to change the alpha to 0% for just that final keyframe so that the motion tween slowly fades each letter out.

Thanks in advance

2 Be Or Not 2 Be... A Newbie
When can I call myself a normal user?

NEWBIE HELP PLEASE
I am looking to do something that I think should be realatively easy. I want to do a object to word shape tween. The only problem is I am looking for a object that is a box going down a conveyor that changes into a company name. Any pointers or tut's would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks in advance for the help.

Derek

Newbie AS Help
Can somebody help give and explain the AS for motion tweening a MC to the left. I've been pondering for 30 minutes and my head hurts...hahaha Thanks

Can Anybody Help This Newbie?
If I'm creating a FLASH Navigation System for an HTML document set up in frames, how do I direct the HTML documents I want to open, with on(release), to a specific frame in this set up?

Can Anyone Help?

Newbie Need Some Help
Last 2 day i was asking how to create a scrolling text field, now i know already. Now can anyone guide me how to create a scrolling text field without use the button to scroll up and down the text.(i mean after the page loaded, the text in the text field will automatically scroll just like website : http://www.unlimited.com.sg/color.htm).

thanks!!!

Newbie Help
ok I have a problem, i am new to flash and this is my first movie...I made this movie and uplaodded it to the server, but it never plays. it says "movie not loaded..."
What do I do?
I use flash 5, and the only thing my movie does is show some text and a picture with some background music.
please help!

Please Help This Newbie
Hello everyone, I am using Flash MX.

A quick question. I am trying to do a simple animation where a character changes the channel on a tv and between channels go fuzzy.

I have designed the main movie and the fuzzy movie to play in between channels. However, I don't know how to make the "fuzzy" movie play and then stop to go on to the next channel. Does this make sense?

Thanks in advance.
Jeff

Help A Newbie Plz
can you set a variable which is in the _root from a clip ? i tried like this :
(my variable is "okidoki")

_root.okidoki = "whatever";

but it doesn't work...

What do i have to do ?
Thanx,
hacook

Newbie Help?
can you set a variable which is in the _root from a clip ? i tried like this :
(my variable is "okidoki")

_root.okidoki = "whatever";

but it doesn't work...

What do i have to do ?
Thanx,
hacook

A Newbie Needs Help
Hello guys,
I have used your genious several times to help me out, and now there is a problem that I just can't figure out. Within a flash site I've made, you click a button, it brings in full motion a second window, that I wanted to have a scroll window in. I created a second flash movie of the scroll window that is very interactive, both work great, but when I try to get the scrollbar to work in the window, it won't. Please help please help.

Newbie Needs Help.
Yes I am a newbie, not ashamed of it. We've all been one before.
I am trying to use the PhotoScroller 1.0 (http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Interfaces/Navigation/Photoscr-Barry_Dr-6066/index.php)as an image gallery. I would like to launch a picture of the thumbnail as a larger image below the scrolling navigation.

What is the best way of accomplishing this? Also is there another movie that you might suggest that would give me the same results?

please no smart comments. I already feel vulnerable...
Also please be as specific as possible.

All replies are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Newbie HELP :)
I admit i dont know much about action script, only enough to control my movies (stop, play, goto, ifframeloaded, etc...). I was just curious if anyone knew where i could find a tutorial on how to build a movie that would allow the user to input variables in boxes and hit "calculate" which would have the movie execute a certain calculation dynamically and give a result.

any help is appreciated. thank you!!

Newbie
Hi guys,

I just start learning Flash, so be easy on me
I d/l some of the well designed buttons from this site. I imported them into the library as symbols, but after i drag them into the scene and test the movie they are all static, no animation no nothing. What do i do wrong, and how can i do that.
All the help is most apreciated

Big Newbie Help
1 question, when you make a website out of flash how do you put all the elements together?

Newbie, Help Please
he people

im in the middle of producing a website for myself! the problem ive encountered is i downloaded a scrolling text clip from the site and succesfully modded it and transfered it to my site.. but i want to use it again in an other frame but i either have to overwrite or duplicate!!!! as you may know both ways result in me getting the same output and as i modify 1 the other chnges too...

is there any way i can use it iver without re-naming all instances in the library???

thank you

Newbie Help
I am using swift, never have been comfortable using flash. I have created a movie, I can watch in my browser and and does not repeat. At the end of the movie I would like it to automatically go to my frames page and pull up my main page. I have yet to find a command that works. Thanks in advance

Newbie Help
Hi i'm really a newbie at flash but i cant do the basic stuff like moving things and fades, buttons, etc... Well what i really want to do it make a Flash Website.. With Menu Bars and Scrolls..
Can someone give me some tutorials or tell me where to start off.. Thanks

Help This NEWBIE
I have a flash player thing that plays a data.swf file you have in the same folder. I like it alot you can turn it on and off BUT when page loads it is set to be OFF I need it to load and play.
here is a link to ZIP file with both file I would be so happy if someone can fix it and give a brief walk through of what was needed and done.

files:
http://www.dgdesignstudio.com/tim/test.zip

ty

ONESHOT

A Newbie In Need
I have just started flash 5 and i don't know where to put script. Please can someone help me!

Newbie Indeed
I'm using the Flash MX tutorial and I've encountered a problem that I can't seem to solve.

Does anyone know where to find this: "Fireworks PNG Import Settings dialog box?" I am stumped.

Aside from the tutorials, does anyone have any recommendations on learning Flash? Where should I start, what exercises are best to learn, etc?

Thanks in advance to anyone that replies.

A Lil Help Here Plz For The Newbie
Hi there,

I need some serious help... I'm trying to make a navigation "circle" where the Links revolve around a logo. I was able to make the Links revolve, but I need the revolution of the links to stop when the mouse hovers over any one of the links * so that a sub menu should appear*, *and for the revolution to start from exaclty where it last stopped at when the mouse is not over the any of the links.

hope this wasnt confusin

lemme know your thoughts

Thanks

Newbie Using Mx...help
i have mx and i'm just learning how to work with the whole flash thing...should i be teaching myself on mx or should i start with a earlier version?

Newbie Q
Hello.
Today I have made my first flash.
Since it is my first flash and I am a complete newbie, there are off course some questions to be asked….

I have background music in the whole flash file and some mc’s and bitmaps. During the music, 6 pictures appear on different times and places. All pictures “enter the scene” as the music alters. (ie: a drum or a higher tone). In this way my images appear more naturally. The pictures appear at the top and at the bottom. (3 pix on each side).

When I press CTRL + enter to preview my flash the images “pop-up” at the right time. However when I use CTRL + f12 to preview in a browser the images appear too late.

And since the flash eventually is seen in a browser I am disappointed of the result.

So my question is (as you might have guessed alredy)

“Why do my images appear too late on web, but on the right time locally on my computer?”

and… “Is this fixable?”.

See the page here: http://www.enemyoffline.com/flash/eo_intro/test.htm

Help For A Newbie
I'm tryint to have two separate flash movies in one HTML page, and I'd like users to be able to press button1 in movie1 and have a specific scene played in movie2. When the user presses button2 in movie1 scene4 plays in movie2. Can anyone help me with this... I'm completely lost.

J

Newbie Help
Hey..i am brand new to this...i have no idea where to start.. i would like to know how to make stuff like on www.homestarunner.com/sbemail.html PLEASE HELP ME..anyone?

Hello I Am A Newbie
Hello everyone i just finished the lessons and the first tutorial in flash mx and i would love to know where do i go frome here once i finish the tutorials I mean like how could i find work doing this i know i am a newbie but i really enjoy doing this and would love a job doing it so if anyone could help me on what i should do it would be greatly appreciated and i also need a way to get a website since my credit is bad i have a page i am just to picky to put anything on it

Help Me - Newbie At All This
Can someone please help me.....

I have an image, divided up and converted into buttons. Person is ment to click on the image and a list comes up which links onto a html file.

When said person click on other part of the image different text appears again linking to a html file.

I can't get the text to work. The buttons are in place, I have set up layers to put the text in, due to when I insert the text the all show up, whole mess together.

I have only used one keyframe on the whole lot.

Can any one help me or tell me any good tutorials I can find out the information.

Ta

Help A Newbie
OK, I have a website that i am creating using flash. I have movie clips in frame 1, 10 and 20 that i want to run sequentially. I.E. the MC in frame 1 is my Page banner coming in. When that is finished, I want the MC in 10 to run, when that is finished I want the MC in 20 to run. I know I can do this by puting it all on the main timeline instead of as seperate movie clips, but I want the m to be reusable. Thank you for any help you can give.

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