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...
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Posted on: 06-09-2003, 12:56 AM
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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
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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]
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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
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