Can You Give Me Some Advice?
Okay, I'm extremely new at this, but it's something I really want to learn. I need some advice on how to start, what programs to use, that sort of thing. Can anyone help? I'll give you a doughnut...
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Posted on: 03-07-2004, 07:57 AM
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Could Someone Please Give Me Some Advice
Hello to all, I have some questions pertaining to some classwork that I am doing and cannot figure out the solution. There is this ship that you control and you have to dodge the rocks and gather the coins. For some reason though, when the rocks pass through the ship they take more than just one point off of your life and when you get a coin it continues to add coins on even though i set the instance name to enabled = false. Could someone please help me with this.
http://www.nextstepdevelopments.net/...classwork.html
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once someone clicks on the "play" button at the beginning, the scene will connect to another external swf then start playing. They will have play, pause and volume control bars like a player for users to click.
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Hello,
i have been working with flash and actionscript for sometime. I would like to buy 2 good books:
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2) a book about advanced actionscript.
Can someone indicate me some good books which includes these subjects?
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Hi. I am new to Flashkit but not to Flash. However, this "wack a mole" style game is giving me fits. I can not figure this one out. I will never be a professional Flash Designer at this rate because I suck and I cant figure this out. I have looked at millions of posts in forums but still no avail. I had a full head of hair last week but I have ripped it all out(except for 2 strands like Homer's)
Any and all advice will be taken to heart and taken seriously.
Thank you Flashkit for giving me a outlet to ask others this boggling info.
The Fla. is attached and I am going crazy..........
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Hi, I am very interested in learning how to create something similar to this site :
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If you do answer this thread please explain in detail the methods for achiving the general structure, or even better provide me with a simple fla example.
Thank you
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ie
Page1 = template/ red/ content A
Page2 = template/ blue/ content B etc etc
My problem is with navigation ( and not knowing enougth about flash )
Choice 1. use traditional hltm with frames. navigation buttons on the left frame call up the a url to load the new flash template.
Problem. Can the call command to load, the url, also navigate to a certain frame within the template?
Choice 2 Make the different pages into different scenes within the same movie.
2A Can the navigation buttons be in a different frame ( web page frame as opposed to a flash frame) and if they can how do I navigate
,or can I navigate as below
Button 1 = load url= www.blah/blah/blah gotoandplay= frame 40
2B the navigation button are in the main movie ( template ) how do I tell it to go to,
button1= go to scene2 frame 30 and play
Lastly!! If I go down the scenes route does flash load the whole movie before it starts playing, this would not be acceptable due to download times, or can it be made to;
1 Load the next scene when it is requested
even better
2 Be made to load the other scenes while the user is looking at the first scene
There will be a large bottle of whiskey ( if your old enougth) for any help that you can give me. Thanks
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BUT, I want to have multiple images within a Flash movie that are buttons and each will open a new window. I can't do that since the JavaScript only allows for one URL at a time as far as I know.
I want to basically make what the band Papa Roach has on their site. You can see it at:
http://www.paparoach.com
Enter the site and click on PHOTOS. Once there ... if you click on any of those names and then the images, they open a new window. HOW are they doing this and making it work for so many images???
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Hey,
I give up, flash is too confusing.
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thanks all
james..
chain_dog_2000@yahoo.com
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This is driving me nuts. I'm using a PHP file to read a number. I want to compare it to a variable and act on a case if it is greater or less than.
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The sequence goes like this:
1. The var "hiscore" is read // (trace sez it's undefined)
2. Use parsefloat - newnum=parseFloat(hiscore); // (trace now sez "newnum" is a number - so far so good)
3. I subtract a number from newnum and all I get is NaN.
I checked the data type of the number I am using to subtract, and trace tells me its a "number". So I'm subtracting a "number" from a "number" and I get NaN???
Help!
I'll post the full code, movie, sell you my first born, etc, but this is making me go craZY. I've tried new movies, new code, over and over, and I am starting to wonder if something more basic (like a buggy Flash installation) is creating the problem. Most likely it is my lack of experience - but damn, I'm following instructions, advice, and nothing is working! It souldn't be this hard!
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I have a high stress job and I relax by playing spades online at MSN game zone. At the zone, you can have a spades club, which means you need a club homepage. Yes, I tried to do this. You can see the sorry results at http://www.MyCamelot.info.
Part of the club thing is to compete in tournaments at the zone. If you win, runner-up, or semis, you get what they call a banner. This is just text. This is worth club points. Each club sets there own points and keeps track of all the banners. At the end of the month the member on the team with the most points is the player of the month. Hey, it is just for fun. I am spending all my time counting points and posting banners instead of playing spades.
Would anyone like to take this project on for their portfolio? (and my deepest respect and praise!!! Not to mention saving my sanity). Please!
Thank You
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On my problem. You'd think there would be an easy way to solve this.
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Problem is, when the user closes the pop-up window, I need the background music to start playing again.
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I don't care if this is supposed to be easy. I don't care if I'm just a bawling newbie. I'm a designer, I do design because I couldn't do math. If I could, I'd be an accountant and make more money.
This Action Script stuff is eating my lunch. I don't even understand the tips and lessons well enough to do them, so I'm throwing in the towel.
I have a "radio" that I want to play sound clips in. Got that to work fine, but no preloader seemed to work, so I tried to use the attachSound command and a related preload script I got here.
Now all I've got is a mess. Preloader doesn't work, but the last sound now plays automagicaly without an action and I don't know why.
I'm sure there is some young gun out here who could do this in a heartbeat.
I have no pride or patience left.
I'll give 50 bucks to anyone who can make this piece of cr@p work.
Take any of my files, and send me back a working Flash file and you've got 50 bucks,
If that ain't enough cash then give me a bid. No animation or tricks needed. Just some Action Scripting that works.
Any takers?
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http://www.transpayprocessing.com/index_v2.html
(click Flash version)
Once the main movie loads, mouse over the links on the top navbar (Home, Merchants, etc). You'll notice the pop-down menus. Those menus are loaded with the attachMovie() command, loaded above the main movie.
I need the links in the those menus to point back to a label in the movie clip "mHomeStart", which is embedded in the root movie clip.
Movie clip hierarchy is like this:
Root > mHomeStart > navbar movie
"navbar movie" loads the pop-down menus via attachMovie() when moused over.
Anyone know how to get the pop-down links to use gotoAndPlay to go to the label "home" in the "mHomeStart" movie clip?
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I saw this website and felt that I just had to try and do a site with Flash.
http://www.cartier.com/us/index.html
I have been tying to learn Flash and seem to understand less and less. I downloaded a movie from flashkit and played around with it to see how it worked, then recreated it using my images and info.
Then I did a rough layout of my site in Dreamweaver and inserted the flash movie.
This is it here
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/wilder/
It horrified me to see how huge the file was and I thought that if the viewer had to wait for this to download (for each catigory) they would just leave
So I desided not to show the clothing in a flash file but use html as on this test
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/wilder/dresspages/1.htm
I still felt that I needed to have animation on the page to make it look nicer so I used something I already had as a test (the image scroller) and noticed that then my problem would be that the animation reloades everytime someone clicks the links to look at a different dress. Is there a way to not interupt the animation?
I hope you can see what I am trying to accomplish and maybe there is a better approach to what I am trying to do.
Any advise would be helpful-Thanks
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So I create an empty movieclip 'e' and attach 'a' and 'b' to 'e' Works fine as long as I don't expect it to appear anywhere except 0,0 on the root stage.
The scrollpane ('foo') refuses, categorically, to recognize or otherwise communicate with 'e' Attachmovie fails. SetScrollContent fails.
So I am here to learn the arcane, undocumented method of getting 'e' to become the content of 'foo'
Any help would be appreciated.
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I was forgetting...I use Flash 5.
Thank you in advance!
Marco
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Chocochip and I are making tile/platform engines, and he's doing pretty well, but I'm having some trouble. I have two major problems:
1.)
Here's the way our tiles work:
Code:
/*We create two variables to determine where we
are in the map array. These are rounded up with Math.ceil()
so that our position in the array will always be a whole number.*/
xpos = Math.ceil(_root.Character._x/TileWidth);
ypos = Math.ceil(_root.Character._y/TileHeight);
99% of the time, xpos and ypos are located to the tile directly southeast of it, because both xpos and ypos are rounded up. I dunno, but this is causing my brain to just...fart.
Here's the code for our character's movements:
Code:
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
if (_root["Column_"+(xpos-1)+"/Row_"+(ypos)]._currentframe == 1) {
_root.char._x -= 2;
}
}
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if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
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}
}
To move down or right, the tile that the character's located at in the array has to be at frame one of our tile movie clip. Alright...since 99% of the time, the tile that our character is located in is 1 tile southeast of the tile he's actually touching, how the hell is that accurate at all?
If there were a wall to the tile southeast of our character, which is where his xpos and ypos are in the array, he wouldn't be able to move down or right, when he SHOULD be able to.
I've tried to add and subtract and manipulate the xpos and ypos in those if statements to see if it'd work, but nothing works. Everything I try has failed.
Please...someone tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong, or if there's an easier and more effifcient way of doing this.
2.)
Now, I've moved onto trying to code a platform engine with tiles. The collision detection is a bit off, but I still went ahead and made it.
Everything went smoothly, except for one problem with how the sprite jumps. Rather than jumping in small increments until he reaches his maximum jump height, he instantly is at his maximum jump height. I've tried using every kind of loop, I've even gone as far as putting an if statement in there so that the character would only move upward once every 5 times through the loop.
Code:
//Pardon the crappy code, I'm just learning this tile stuff. :-|
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && !Jumping && !Falling
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}
if (Jumping) {
x=0;
z=0;
while(x<100)
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if(z>=5)
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z=0;
x++;
}
z++;
}
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Falling=true;
}
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Oy....I probably don't know what I'm doing. >_<
Can someone help?
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LOVETHEVOID
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{
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