Flash :: Background Animations

How Do You LOOP Background Animations?
Hello, I would like to know how to make an animation in the background loop continuously while the program waits for a user input?

I have an ball animation and I would like it to continuous bounce up and down while the user is browsing through the menu options.

Thank you!

How To Make Animations Float With Transparent Background
I am taking a graduate course in adv. web design for an ed tech program at a university. Neither my instructor nor anyone else in my class knows how to get Flash animations to have a transparent background, or even if this is possible. On behalf of us all, I am wondering if it is possible to create a Flash animation without a background--or with a transparent background, and then superimpose it onto a web page so that the web page's background shows through all but the animated part. We are using Flash 8. If it is possible, can someone please tell us how to do it? I have seen web pages where the animations float over the web page. Are these animations made with Flash or with another program? Thank you!

Edited: 05/12/2007 at 10:18:16 AM by kinderteacher

Animations Playing Over Animations...
Alrighty,

First off I'm not new to flash, however when it comes to scripting, I am. Heres the issue I'm having:

I have a website entirely done in flash. When you select a side link it plays a short animation on the main animation and then loads another animation upon the main one. This way you only load what you need as you need it. When it appears it gives the illusion of all being part of one site. Now, I'm trying to set it up so that you can select a link on this 2nd animation and have it bring up another animation over part of it... I did it... Thing is, whenever I select one of the far off links to the left from the main animation it wont get rid of the tiny animation brought forth by animation 2... It just stays there and wont go away.

Anyhoo, sorry if this issue is a very simple error and the entire question void of all inteligence, but any help woud be great.

-Ashek

Having Difficulties Trying To Change White Background Of Flash Menu Into Transparent Background
How would I best go about changing a Flash menu that currently has a white background into a Flash menu with a transparent background?

I want to take that menu (with a transparent background) and place it over a side-bar image that i've got in DW.

Any help/advice'd be greatly appreciated.

[F8] List Component - Transparent Background? Or A Custom Bitmap Background?
I have a custom bitmap I'd like to use as the background for my List Component in Flash 8 Pro.

I can't for the life of me find any documentation on how to make the list component background transparent or how to put a bitmap in the background of it.

Can anyone help with this? Please!

FOO

How To Make The Background Transparent And/or Change The Shape Of The Background
Im just curious how to change the shape of the background or the transparency.

Please let me know

Transparent Background/ XML Code To Change The Background Colour
Hi,

In a bit of a pickle here; I need a way to insert a swf file into any color background website, so it automatically matches up.

Now, can one make the swf files background transparent? And match the background of any given websites background?

Or, can one use some sort of XML file and simply change this xml file to match the background color of the website?

Now, what if the website uses a particulare pic background? How would one match this?

As usual folks, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, so any help deeply apprecaiteed!

Kind Regards,

Boxing Boom

HTML Background Matching Flash Background
Hey, I have a flash website that opens as a pop up, the pop auto fullscreens. The background in the flash document is a gradient, and I have a gradient in the background of the html. My question is how would I get the background of the HTML to always match up with the flash background using a percentage?

www.flippingsweet.net/index2.html

Printing A MC With White Background, Not Stage Background?
Iâ€™m trying to print a movieclip with a white background while keeping the stage background black. The movieclip, printResults_mc has a white rectangle in the bottom layer, 850 pixels x 1100 pixels. The following function scales printResults_mc to the printerâ€™s printable area but because itâ€™s impossible to predict the aspect ratio of the printable area some black background always leaks out. I tried making the white background 20 pixels larger than I need (870 x 1120) and then setting a crop rectangle in addPage of (10,10,850,1100), no luck, the black stage background just fills in the area outside the crop. A simple solution would be to temporarily set the stage background color property to white, print, then set it back to black, but I canâ€™t find any such property. Anyone have some ideas?

Attach Code

function printResults(e:MouseEvent):void {
var myPrintJob:PrintJob = new PrintJob();
var result:Boolean = myPrintJob.start();
var pageMargin:Number = 0;
if (result) {
prepPage();
var cropRect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(pageMargin,pageMargin,printResults_mc.width-pageMargin,printResults_mc.height-pageMargin);
printResults_mc.width = myPrintJob.pageWidth;
printResults_mc.scaleY = printResults_mc.scaleX
myPrintJob.addPage(printResults_mc,cropRect);
myPrintJob.send();
} else {
//User does not have printer or user canceled print action
};
}

How To Make The Background Transperant Or Without Background
Hi, I'm just wondering how do I make the movie background transperant a example of this can be found in cn.yahoo.com
the ad appears in the middle without background.

thank you

Transition Problems - Background To Background
my problem is, when click on the button to make a background go away ( fade out ) and another fades in...there is a quick blip or jump when it should be a very smooth transition from one to the other.

can anybody help me with this problem? the file is attached.

oh yeah, click on the red buttons toward the buttom to see the problem.

Swf In Table Background / Cell Background Possible
ive read it cant be done? but you never know! anyone know of how it can be done?

thanks

Animations
if i draw my first frame then insert another and try to draw the second frame anything i draw in the second frame also appears in the 1st frame. can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong and how i can solve this problem?

Animations
how do i make an object seem to grow bigger or smaller?

or even make it explode?

About Animations
Hi!
I'm a true flash newbie , but I hope that my question is not too dumb... (i tried searching the forums and the tuts section, but didn't find anything helpful)
Scenario:
I need a walking guy. I thought that i could draw a small animation (ie left foot up, left foot down, repeated endlessly) in Flash, insert it in the library, put it on my scene from the library and make it move from left to right on a path (tween).
Unfortunately i ran into several problems:
a) it must be a vector graphic, i can't (am not allowed) to use a movie clip or something like that
b)how do i make the feet animated and put it in the library as an object?? I really have no idea
c)is it possible to do all that without having to make each frame a keyframe and draw each movement separately?

I saw something similar in the Flash help examples, it's called 'Flash baby'. The baby is in the library, and it's animated somehow, but i don't see the typical 'tween arrow'. (How did they do that??) In the library i noticed that a 'play' button appears when you click on the object, and it plays the animation, ie the crawling baby. The context menu says that it's a graphic. I thought it would be a film sequence..

(Does this make sense?)

Help please! It must be simple, i'm sure. How can i make a cool animation? Meanwhile i feel somehow desperate..
I'm thankful for any advice. thanks

Nini

[edit]I'm using flash 4[/edit]

Animations
How do u make things move with Flash MX or cant you? cause i want some lines to move in and out through out my intro and i dont know how to do that.

Pop-up Animations
has anyone ever seen those animations that sort of pop up out of nowhere in browser windows and then disappear, but don't have any sort of defining boundaries or any way to close them out. It seems as though they are independent of the current window they open over...

anyways, I was just wondering what that is and/or how "they" do that...

About Animations
Hi,

First, sorry if my english is bad, but i hope that all of you will be able to understand me.

K, i'll explain myself:

I want to make game parodie video with flash. Like www.videogamedc.com (Section pixeled parodie).

Im able to get sprite with znes and animation shop pro 3, but i dont really know how to handle them in Flash.

Exemple:

A charactere move to the right, stop and a text box (He talk) pop up over his head, after few second, he walk again, and he jump.

I can put animation like Move to the spot A to the spot B, but i only know to make him walk with only 1 animation, i dont know how to make several in a same video.

But if you want a exemple check this:
http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/lior...id_parody.html

Thats exaclty the type of flash that i want to do.

I HOPE you can help me, even if that take few minutes

Bye bye !

Oh and i use Flash MX

Gif Animations Into .swf
I have posted here about this little thing before, i'm much better at animating with a gif animator. However, I do realise the file size will be increased, but I don't want to have to learn flash when i'm already fluent in animating elsewhere. Anyways, the simple questions I'd like to ask are, if a 10 minute movie of HQ gif were to be used, how much would the file size differ from that of optimizing it in Flash? Is there a simple way of optimising the gif animation in flash? And finally, how many frames can Flash support? Should I be wary of large high frame files causing quality loss on the user? If it looks like I'm on for a loser, ill just make it into an avi or something.

Animations...
Good afternoon everyone.

I see lost of effects where you have shapes that look and act like real people do (ex: the Ipod commercial), I was wondering how you get this effect in flash. I'd assume you take some sort of movie, turn it into frames, remove the background, then turn it all black in flash. If this is the right way, then how do you do it?

If not, how do I get this effect?

Animations
I need help for the animations on MX 2004. If you can take me by it step by step or recomend a site it would be greatly thanked.

3D Animations Like This One...
Hello guys,

Please take a look at this Flash 3D animation:
http://images.templatemonster.com/sc...7800/7815.html

Can any of you tell me what software there is available to create this kind of 3D animtion for flash? I've heard about one called Swift 3D, but are there anymore options?

Thanks for your help.

Animations
Hi all,

This is my first posting. Can anyone tell me how I can find animations? I was hoping to find it here, but can't seem to. Is there anywhere I can have one made? or make one myself? I can't draw so I'm not sure where to go.

Thanks

Animations
how do i make an animation similar to the one in the attched gif image.

Animations Are Too BIG
hi i'm making some animations for a banner advert but it's coming in over filesize by just a few K.

has anyone used Flash Optimizer or anything similar? Ive tried the demo verson and it seems good, reducing to about 8k from 16 with very little loss in quality.

would just like to know peoples opinions of this prog (good or bad) before i shell out $100.

thanks

Help With Animations.
Ok, i have a site for the game called the sims and don't have much flash on it, if I have any it is just for videos. Well i need to know how to create a flash animation without it repeating it self. For example if i made a box pop up and then make it 15 frames long i don't want the whole thing to start over again, i just want it to stay after that.

Animations
OK. This isn't Flash 9 specific but I figured this was the best place to ask. I have a pretty good basic understanding of Flash but animations have pretty much escaped me.

I'm just wondering... I know basic animations are easily made with tweens (like transitions and stuff...).

BUT! I was wondering... for more advanced animations do people actually draw out every frame like old school animators or are there other shortcuts? Cuz I can't seem to wrap my head around how some complex animations are made unless people took 1 year to draw out every frame.

Sorry if its a really noob question... I need some way to break into making complex animations and I can't really figure out how these people do these insane things. Thanks!

How To Put Several Animations Together?
hi there. I am a high school art teacher who teaches Flash MX 2004. Each of my students made a short animated greeting and i would like to connect them all into one big animation to play at our art show. I have about 50 of them. Does anyone know the easiest way to do this?

Jib Jab Animations
Hi all

I'm working on a project, and I'm interested in animating it in the same style as JibJab.com, where every character has that "Halloween-wall-decoration" quality to it.

So I'm wondering if anyone knows a) if they use stock photos to make all their characters and b) if they do use stock photos, where can I find them (or something similar)?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chris

Help With Animations
Okay I have gone through some of the tutorials and learned how to do some things but nothing i really want to learn how to do

If any of you have seen these sites maybe it would help you to understand what i mean if not i suggest them cause they are fun

http://www.nuklearpower.com/8bitmedia.php

http://fff.wangclip.net/FFF.html (the movie section)

I want to make fun animations like that but no tutorial teaches anything like that

Now I'm not asking for you to make one for me and tell me how step by step, I'm simply asking for someone to show me how to do ONE little stupid fireball to another guy who dodges or something similar

Now you ask what's this guys obsession with fireballs? I don't have one It's just If I knew how to do that I think I could do most of what I want to do

A bunch of fun live comics

Which one day I plan on showing you all

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ( i know it wasnt necessary to say it three times but it makes it more dramatic) Someone show me how

Arrigato (Thanks) ^_^

More Animations?
can anyone give me a tutorial of a simple animation project? Like illustrating a sound wave, or something small like that.

I'm a big n00b and I don't want to stay one. I'm determined to work hard and get all the practice I can.

Animations
i have an animation that i want to stop after a certain time
but when i insert a stop(); it stops my whole animation!

i want my animation to loop when some text is changing colors but i have a previous text effect that i dont want to loop

so its like:

TEXT DISPLAYED IN COOL WAY
TEXT CHANGES COLOR IN A LOOP

lol

but after i put the stop after the text getting displayed
the loop doesnt happen

and if i put it after the first loop sequence it stops after that

help

<3

XML Animations?
I know how to create a basic gallery using XML. I know how to import the photos and use action script to create thumbnails and a main movie clip, and how to make each thumbnail associate itself with the correct main image.

What I DON'T know is how to make transitions between those images.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!
sogj

Random Animations
hi there, ive got a little problem i was given a code to make these random animations play but i dont know what to do to make it play.
my movie is 1 frame long and but i want these animations to play, they are like 20 frames long.
the person who gave me the code told me to put this in

rightAnimations.gotoAndStop(Math.ceil(Math.random( )*5));

wrongAnimations.gotoAndStop(Math.ceil(Math.random( )*5));

"Now this also assumes that you have your wrong and right animations in seperate movieclips. each having five frames and on each frame a movieclip with a different wrong/right animation. "

that is what i was told to do.
i dont fully understand what im ment to do, and i dont understand how my main timeline should be set out.

i want this character to be standing on the stage, then if the user answers the question correctly i want the character to do one of the 5 right animations, if the answer is wrong i want the character to do one of the 5 wrong animations.
i hope i have made it clear enough for you.
thanking you in advance. peter.

Preloader For CD Animations?
Is it necessary to have a preloader for a CD that have lots of bitmaps and animations?

Thanks

Ian

Buttons With Animations In Them
i wanted to make a button , a simple rectange... and then when you put your mouse over its a simple rollover, change color, EASY i can do this im not that much of a n00b, BUT then i also want a VERY small rectangle to flash colors in the button when my mouse is over, but ONLY when my mouse is over.

everytime i try doing this it screws up, i cant get the animation of the flashing rectangle to play when my mouse is over the button.

Line Animations
I have a wire picture that I am trying to put into animation. I can trace the picture but now I want an animation that will "draw" it for me. I want lines to move and slowly create the picture. I am trying to do an intro for a home builder. The picture is of a house but its all just a wire (line) picture. I want flash to animate the line much like a pencil drawing lines and slowly creating the house. How do I do this? Can someone please help!!

After Effects Animations
I've been messing around with Adobe After Effects for years (its a fun program) but recently I tried to convert a simple animation from After Effects to Flash and I just couldn't do it...is it possible to do at all or will I have to make my animation an embedded movie clip (which is not advantages for what I'm trying to do..)
thanks in advanced D Mass

Stick Animations
To anyone who is good at stick figure animations:
What is the best way of animating stick figures - frame-by-frame or using tweens or actionscript?
Tweens are useful, but in complex movements all limbs of the figure become detached. Frame-by-frame is very uneven. I don't know actionscript well enough to try using it. Any ideas?

Looping Certain Animations
I was jsut wondering if anyone can tell me how to loop certain parts of a movie but not others. I am trying to make a header for my website and i want these lines to keep zooming across but the text and stuff to stay. I also want other parts of the movie to keep playing while these lines just keep looping over and over. Can someone please tell me how or tell me where i can easily learn how? Thx in advance.

Creating Animations From MCs
I'm searching for a resource that will help me create one whole MC (animation) from seperate MCs that are selected by the viewer.

I've seen it done but can't figure it out. The most recent example I've seen is the Flashcan Animator (http://www.flashcan.com/animator/) except I want to just be able to click and not drag the MC elements.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers.

Dawgrrl

How Do You Put Animations On Your Post?
How Do You Put Animations On Your Post?

[Edited by estudioworks on 02-28-2002 at 09:13 AM]

Ego Media's Animations
where can I find tutorials on making videos animated vectors.
Like on the ego media site.
Sort of a shape of someone moving.
Also whats the best software to use?

Animations Seem To Work But Don't
Why do my animations seem to work fine when I scrub the timeline but when I test the movie or publish it they either don't work or don't fully work?

Animations (is That Spelt Right?)
i used flash alot now but how do u add advance animations to text or other objects or is there a tutorial about it which i cant find any off!
Thanx alot.
Jay

Buttons And Animations
Hello:
I have made various animations in the same time line. The first
animation is looping all the time by inserting an action in its last
frame to go to frame 1 again.Y have also include some buttons. When I
push one of then, the movie jumps to a particular animation. In the
last frame of this animation there is other action to go to frame 1
and begin the first animation looping again.
The problem is that while the particular animation is playing, if I
push the button again it begins from the beginning. What I want is
this animation to finih although I push the button during it. I would
like to see the complete animation each time I push the button.
This idea is based on the movements of dancingbush or bushaerobics
movies from Miniclip.com (http://www.miniclip.com/bushaerobics.htm)
for changing the way the character dances. Each animation finish
before returning to the main loop, and each time you push a button the
animation begins and finish completely, althoug you push the same
button again.
I don´t know which is the actionscript I need to do it or if there is
other way of doing it like creating different movie clip for each
animation.
Thanks in advance. I would need a detailed answer on how to do it
because I am doing my first steps in flash.

Lluis