I use AS files and just open them in flash. It sounds like you were reading a book about flex, which is basically flash without a graphical interface so the "professional" programmers feel safer without all those scary extra features like a library and a stage.

:3

Ewwww, Twitter.....

Suicide is so overrated...

At 8/11/09 12:33 AM, johnfn wrote:

:or do the prime as3 evil and put code on the MC itself to clean it up

Naww, that's what I do.

this.parent.removeChild(this);
stop();

The only evil in code (at least in my opinion) is something that hurts performance. Of course, the best solution is to recycle everything, but that can just be a pain...

If you have flash CS4, you can put limbs and body sections in movieclips, then animate those movieclips with the bone tool. Then to switch characters, you simply gotoAndStop() on whatever frame their parts are on in each movieclip.

You can do the same thing without the bone tool (a la SuperFlashBros early work) but I imagine it's much harder.

At 8/5/09 08:29 AM, WoodenSneakers wrote: Pico's School 2

The typography on that is oddly brilliant.

At 7/22/09 01:04 AM, Hulalaoo wrote: Professor Layton for front page please, is the best movie of the week i thing !!!! Tarnsformer only have a high score and front page for are make for a staff, with a high quality visual only

I.e. It was a good movie, a funny parody, and deserves credit you dolt.

Did you guys ever consider that because there are more people here now, there are also more people making flash?

Just look at Alexa, NG is not losing traffic. It just has more content competing for attention.

At 6/28/09 05:05 AM, LegolaSS wrote: iv been tracking it but to be honest i havent really gotten any artistic flair for cards, iv finished my sketch book tour piece and working on my highly detailed munny... i should hopefully get some more on here soon :P

Haha, I saved mine for the last second too. :3 I nearly forgot about it!

I'm gonna do some william and Sly cards once I release my game.

@ Fro: You really don't have to do great work to avoid being blammed. Blamming filters out the work that obviously has no place here, usually because it's unfinished. You don't even have to be good to avoid being blammed, you just have to expend a tiny amount of effort.

TRIPLE POST ZOMG!!

I figured it out.

I was using the stop event on all of the sounds (so they wouldn't play, obviously), and this was making it so they weren't forcing the load on that frame like I wanted them to. I changed it to an event, moved them to frame 2 of my dump movieclip, and put a stop on frame 1 of that movieclip. Now the preloader starts at 0. :D

Don't upload a flash unless it's worth displaying. No one wants to watch you practice. I have a whole folder of stuff I haven't uploaded.

Well, I remmed out all of my code were it makes a "new SoundNameHere" and the loader works fine. But this code is in a function that isn't called until frame 5. I also tried putting the code on an actual frame, but still no luck. I quadruple checked that all of my sounds are not exporting on frame 1. It just doesn't make sense...

D:<

The flex loader is an option, but I'd really like to figure out what's wrong with this thing. It should be so simple.

At 6/28/09 07:09 AM, crapatflash wrote: I'm pretty sure that unless you're importing external files like music then hat shouldn't happen... have you tried going into the publishing settings and changing the export frame to a frame other than the first?

I tried this, and it starts at about 20% now, so that's an improvement, but it won't recognize any of my library symbols now. -_-

Hmmm. Well that'll work for now, but I don't think I could integrate the flashads into that.

At 6/27/09 12:20 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Flash has a 'Generate size report' in the settings. If you can't be bothered messing around with Flash you could make a quick preloader with Flex and embed the Flash-made app after it.

I looked at the size report and it said around 80% of the content is loading on frame 1, which is to be expected from the results I'm getting, but it doesn't make sense. I tried it online and it does the same thing as the simulated DL, so I don't think it's buggy. I thought it might be that I was creating sounds in my document class, so I moved those to a different function and called it after the first frame, but it's still doing it... :/

I might just try the flex idea. That'll still make a single file, right? I DLed flash develop and the flex framework a while ago but I haven't done anything with it yet...

Coming: when it's done

I know how that goes, lol!

So I'm getting the classic white screen before my preloader that stays till 80%, and I've triple checked that all the "Export in first frame" boxes were unchecked. There shouldn't be anything but the loading bar on/before frame one, but it still insists on loading practically the whole game there. I'm really at a loss with this.

Does anyone have ideas on what I can check for?

Great job dude. I just did a stress test and it looks great!

At 6/11/09 10:43 PM, kamaykazay wrote: well i finished another one. its a staff that harnessess the power of a mana crystal. it tilts to the right, and my mom said it looks like a penis >:( what do you think?

HAHA! Your mom said that?! That's priceless. It would have to be a really pointy penis...

At 6/10/09 07:44 AM, LegolaSS wrote: i know i was jumping around the house when i found out i had a bunch of stuff air mailed to me... :3... time for some more card making soon :P

Haahaha!

I'm keeping the envelope from mine, I've never gotten mail from England before.

Woah! Nice cards guys! I better get to work. Once my new game is done I'll have lots of time.

Oh good, I'm glad it made it this time! :D Sry I've been slow getting more cards up, I've been trying to get my latest game finished (see my sig).

Hey, the shading looks nice, but next time try using colors to shade instead of black. It tends to make stuff look smoky instead of darker. if you shaded on different layers with this one, you can try just playing with colors, usually the opposite color on the color wheel is best. It can be close to black, but full black usually only works when shading something white. :3

I like what you did with the hand, that did help a bit. Overall nice work!

Hey, I like that you changed the hand on the latest version, but it looks a bit small now. It seems like she needs a bit more wrist. Maybe bump it out a bit? You're making good progress on it I think, keep it up!

Ohh, that sounds challenging. I'll try to whip sommat up.

Here's the second card I'm sending to you Legolass. I wanted to do something similar to your cards, kind of abstract and colorful. :3

They'll be in the mail tomorrow. I'm going to resend your card tomorrow too Kinsei.

At 5/30/09 06:18 PM, Viridis wrote: Mine is better

I rofled.

Hey Kinsei, I got my card mailed back to me!! D:

Can you PM me your address again? I'll try to resend it.

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I would LOVE to have a theme, actually. I seem to have blanked on ideas ATM...LOL

The wide layout is great, I don't understand why people would like the old play button better. Now I can send people to flash here and they won't be like "How do I play it?"