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At 12/10/08 09:11 AM, WolfAkela wrote: attachMovie(libName, stageName, depth, {values});

Like

_root.attachMovie("libEnemy", "mcEnemy", _root.getNextHighestDepth, {_x: 100, _y: 100, _rotation: 100});

Hey it works! Thanks!

At 12/10/08 08:58 AM, WolfAkela wrote: Well, no, if you still have the same amount of soldiers on-screen there's no difference.

The thing is that with attachMovie(), you can have dynamic displays of MCs on the stage. Lots of things are just easier to code than to have to animate.

So I should just go ahead, and start using this method then?

Also, where do I add it's x and y? Is that the depth?

At 12/10/08 07:54 AM, WolfAkela wrote:

and what are its advantages?

You reduce the amount of things you'd have to put manually onscreen. Random fireworks is one example, and it's much easier to script it than to manually animate a million possibilities.

So basically...If my player is fighting an army of identical soldiers, and if I do one soldier and attach him like that a million times, the movie would be faster right?

So I've been hearing about this for some time, Also when I download free source .FLA's some just don't have anything on screen, yet the game is all there when you export.

So what is all this, how do you do it, and what are its advantages?

At 12/7/08 06:45 AM, Archon68 wrote: And in addition to his part, 4urentertainment also made the menu. It's fan-freakin-tastic!

...I didn't do any other part...did I? Am I supposed to?

Also....Can we see the parts so far or do we have to wait for the collab to be posted?

At 12/9/08 12:17 PM, Novocaine88 wrote:

At 12/9/08 12:11 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: And the .fla is 50 mb!!!!!

This might not do anything, but in the File menu if you click 'Save and compact' flash will delete any unused data thats not on the stage. If you have anything like that it will reduce its size, but seeing as you said the .swf file is also bloated im not sure if this will help, just an idea.

I have been looking for the option that does that...thanks.

You should also check out swift 3d, it's pretty cool.

Now I've been using Swift 3d for easy 3d flash. Whenever I export, the swf is about 400 kb. I then decompile it and add it to my flash movie which is like... 80 kb... (there's nothing in it except some text and stuff) So total, it doesn't exceed 500kb. And I'm happy with that.

The next day, I put some more animation ( a ball going from left to right) then after a while, I find the flash movie is 5 mb!!!! And the .fla is 50 mb!!!!! I copy everything in the movie and past it in a new file, save and the swf is 500 kb. The next day without touching it, it's 5 mb...

What the F? Do flash movies grow over night these days? I'm sure I didn't mess around with the movie THAT bad for it to grow 4 mb suddenly.... Does anyone know why this could be happening?

Or...probably just me...screw that, does anybody know how can I export swift 3d movies that won't be 10 mb per 15 sec animation?

At 12/6/08 12:28 PM, Archon68 wrote:

At 12/6/08 12:25 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: So Archon68, did you download the menu? Does it work now? Anything else to mention?

Yep, it works. It's huge, though, but I deleted the two globes (the buttons) and replaced them with simpler things. That cut it down by about 1.5 MB's.

So it's about 2.5 mb now...cool.

And did you fix "the" and "collab"?

So Archon68, did you download the menu? Does it work now? Anything else to mention?

At 12/6/08 10:25 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: I just PMed the download link,

..was expecting it to be done by the time I finished that post, still uploading, when it's done I'll PM it.

At 12/6/08 09:15 AM, Archon68 wrote: 4urentertainment, are you still doing a collab part as well?

I just PMed the download link, (the .FLA is a whopping 13mb!!! Also if it so happens that the other parts don't fit with the menu, I could take out "Universe" or the two globes or something. Just so you know, the background is only 1 mb. while the universe and the globes are 3 for some reason)

Also, what part is available? If it's something easy, I might be able to do it 3D and it won't be more than 700kb. If not, I could try doing it normally. I mean I'm an okay 2d flash animator (the flashes I have submitted in the portal aren't really a good sample of my work)

I have been working on the big bang for another project I'm working on...but I'll post that later....

P.S. I also got a new set of 3d models (planes, buildings, other planets etc...)

At 12/6/08 06:00 AM, Pivoto wrote: please help me! I need someone to translate a pivot movie I made into flash. I don't have flash and I need help. PLEASE!

Do you have a link to your pivot movie? And it's not "translate" it's convert to flash...

Wait, what's wrong with making 24 FPS? In fact I use 18.

And how the hell do you outline with a pencil? It never works for me, I always use the pen tool.

At 12/5/08 06:19 PM, Archon68 wrote:

At 12/5/08 02:21 PM, 4urentertainment wrote: Yo bitchaz here is mah awesome menu!

THAT IS FAN FREAKIN' TASTIC!

So, your gonna use that? And I'm getting co-authored? So now I just send you the .fla?

Also...I hate getting misquoted....

I don't see a difference between "a Easter egg" button and a normal button. Just, make a button, hide it, put the correct code on it (the on press thing) and that's it...

Also, rollover the play and scene select for the globes to rotate.

And has the guy who makes the Big Bang done yet? Cuz I'm trying to make a Big Bang for another solo project I'm working on, and just can't do it....

Okay so I've managed to compact it a litte, it's now 4mb with even better quality (funny how that works)

Once again no preloader menu

Also, the background alone is one megabyte, the two globes and cool text are 3 mb. Also.you should work on the other text to make it look like you want, cuz I didn't really work on that...

P.S: I've tested the movie and it loads, you just have to wait...

i think it's just:

var item = 1

then to check it:

trace(item);

see if that works and tell me.

Yeah dude it's friggin awesome!!! I mean with the bone tool, animating is so much easier. Like making a pair of smooth walking legs and arms talks about....30 seconds man. It's pretty cool. So far no problems.

....Wait a second.... YOU GOT THAT FAKE CREDITS THING FROM MGS4 DIDN'T YOU!!!

If so....Well it's a hideo kojima parody, it SHOULD include his ideas...

If not...guess your thinking on a Hideo Kojima level now.....

At 11/29/08 04:32 PM, Archon68 wrote

Holy shit--that's awesome. (or at least, better than mine...) But it's a HUGE file... try compressing it :or something... And I agree, it is a bit '90s-style.

I think I can probably compress it....But I can't do anything about the "90s" thing. Unless you describe it a little more for me....

At 11/29/08 01:55 PM, TheCupcakeArmy wrote:

That's exactly why I'm asking this, I don't want to draw it 1000 times, instead use the bone tool and do awesome animation in 2 seconds....

If you want a good animation, it will take a lot longer than 2 seconds.

With flash cs4, creating a smooth walking motion takes 10 seconds!!! Buy now! only [insert ridiculously high price here]!!!

I guess the only thing left is to re-trace him and colour him in flash then use the bone tool on him...

Still looking for an bone answer people.

At 11/29/08 11:24 AM, Matt2k8 wrote: Make sure you don't have the colour setting on Alpha and not Solid.

I donno if CS4 or not, but there's only radial,solid,linear,bitmap....

At 11/29/08 11:11 AM, K-Guare wrote: Did you...copy a picture on a printer, and draw over it?
Teehee, that's pretty funny.

Want to animate?
Draw that beautiful guy one more time, in a little bit of a different spot.
Then if you have a program like Flash, put the pictures on separate keyframes.
Repeat the re-drawing process about,
eh, i don't know, maybe 1000 times.

And Voilà! You have an animation!

Good luck. :]

That's exactly why I'm asking this, I don't want to draw it 1000 times, instead use the bone tool and do awesome animation in 2 seconds....

At 11/29/08 10:59 AM, Peglay wrote: U can do it by cutting him into pieces.....make his left or right arm to a symbol and do the same thing with other body parts. Now you can put him together and animate him.

Interesting... That would be the old method of animating a drawn object. But if I wanted to use the bone tool, flash would still think of it as a gradient...I'll do it anyway, and It wouldn't really differ that much from bones to manual animating...Thanks for the help.

And if anyone figures out how to make flash think it's a drawn object not a gradient, what are you waiting for? tell me!

So I've drawn this.

Picture

(haven't put hands yet) And I've also recently gotten Flash CS4 which has the incredible bone tool which perfectly animates stuff. However it treats this picture as a gradient, so whenever I try to move it with the bone tool, the part I moved disappears, does anyone know anything I can do to move it properly with the bone tool?

yeah I guess it does look kinda "90s"....

but it's friggin awesome 3d man!!!!

Start with Flash CS4, and there's loads of tutorials out there. Start on www.flashkit.com there's good and simple tutorials there. Also before doing anything, just try experimenting and trying all the tools in flash, just to get familiar.