At 2/1/08 10:05 PM, TheGoldenMonk wrote: I'll probably take a wack at it, if you'll have me. I have alot of other projects going on right now, so don't be surprised if I don't turn out anything. :C

hmm...can I have a little sample of your work?

If its good your in!

and I have low standards, so most stuff is good to me

I actually don't agree with MrMacro, it sounds fun actually, but it would be extremely hard and would take forever to make.

If someone decides to make this, you get my 5

Here is just a sample of the axe going off the screen and then coming back in...

You can use that crappily drawn axe, or draw your own, your choice

Ok, I'm taking the advice of Souled. I started the pico collab and well...my part was crap and all that stuff, so I decided to create a collab with a point. Thanks Souled.

Ok, so this collab is based on Pass The Axe by Dark Lotus

The idea is that you animate a guy doing a hatchet (...ugh reminds me of Pain Olympics...GET IT AWAY!) and then somehow it flys out of his hand and flys out of the right side of the screen. In the next part the axe would come flying in on the left side and another person would catch the axe and do something with it and etc.

Specifications

You can use ANY style of animating here. You can use FBF, 100% Tweening (as long as it looks good), or anything else you can think of (I already have my part thought out, it's not going to be an animation...but more of an...art)

FPS: 24

Length: 10-30 seconds (may be a little longer or a little shorter, not much though)

Song: I'm not sure about what to use as a song, of course we could use pass the axe...but it just doesn't seem like a collab song, any suggestions are welcome

Background: White, but you could (and probably should) draw your own :p

Size: 550x400

Sounds: Try to stay away from sound effects, but you can use them if you want

Fonts: If you want to use custom fonts, send the fft file to me, or else I will have to change it to a text I actually have on my computer

Sticks/Sprites: I don't really like sprites, but if thats the only kind of animation you can do, we'll see...As for sticks, only if they are really good.

Rules: You may use blood, and a little swearing, but don't make it pointless
Things I Don't Want: 'Ocks, All "Gangs" (unless it is good), Other Inappropriate Things (Besides Listed Above)

Deadline: Whenever

I'm not even sure...I think about that sometimes...I guess you animate for fun, but theres really no point to it and its just wasting days, months, and sometimes years of your life..

But yet I continue to make flash...go figure

At 2/1/08 07:57 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 2/1/08 07:51 PM, ZackTheZombie wrote: Does anyone know one so that when they right click, it will go to a certain frame?

if (Key.isDown(2)) {
//gotoAndPlay Code Goes Here
}

whoa right click is a key? interesting...

At 2/1/08 07:55 PM, NG-Unit wrote: put this on the frame:
Stage.showMenu=false;

That just hides the content of the right click menu. Read the question before posting =P

Dang it! Thats the second time today, sorry

put this on the frame:

Stage.showMenu=false;

At 2/1/08 06:46 PM, Paddydude wrote: I tried them but they dont work since to properly test a preloader it has to be a site like newsgrounds where you watch it on the web not download it then watch it in flash.

upload the swf to the sites, then you would watch it on the web

This collab is officially dead because I am taking that dudes advice and making something more creative

thanks!

Check my signature for a list of places you could upload it to

At 2/1/08 06:19 PM, souled wrote:

At 2/1/08 06:13 PM, NG-Unit wrote:

At 2/1/08 06:11 PM, souled wrote:

At 2/1/08 05:54 PM, NG-Unit wrote: No one wants to join the collab? :(

I think your part just put off a lot of people... sorry :(

ouch, that hurts man

that thing takes forever to make! and everyone else liked my other animations that I made using tgus technique

hmm...if it makes people feel better, I can make another part?

I'd suggest thinking of a unique theme for a collab, not just one like Ninjas or something, something like 50 frames or one layer. But an idea much better. And sorry I didn't want to hurt you.. :( (it was a good sprite, just a pointless animation)

haha you didn't actually hurt me, a lot of people said it sucked before, so don't worry about it

yeah it was kinda pointless, but it doesn't really need a story if its in a collab does it?

But those things take forever to make, cuz think animating that with 1 click every frame, filling in one 12 pixel square every frame...it gets kinda annoying

At 2/1/08 06:11 PM, souled wrote:

At 2/1/08 05:54 PM, NG-Unit wrote: No one wants to join the collab? :(

I think your part just put off a lot of people... sorry :(

ouch, that hurts man

that thing takes forever to make! and everyone else liked my other animations that I made using tgus technique

hmm...if it makes people feel better, I can make another part?

At 2/1/08 06:09 PM, NG-Unit wrote: Heres a nice little thread I made for people just like you!

shit...sorry, I didn't read the whole thread, just the title (the title says a lot) and I thought you ment you needed one...

Anyway, there are so many, I don't think its worth it, because if one of them goes down, theres about 100 and 1 more to go to

Heres a nice little thread I made for people just like you!

haha..

No one wants to join the collab? :(

At 1/31/08 07:09 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: Depends on your code, but something like this:

var mc:MovieClip = duplicateMovieClip(.....);
mc._x = -400;
mc._y = random(400);

nevermind that, I got it to work

2.) how to get rid of the things. see my fla for what happens. But after you die, it goes to the next frame, but there are still objects on the screen, I tried

I'm not going to download any .fla file but if you have a counter for how many "things" you have on stage and you call them "things1", "things2" etc you can do something like this:

for(var i:Number = 0; i < COUNTER; i += 1){
_root["things"+i].removeMovieClip();
}

but they are dupes, and I don't exactly know what its duplicating them as, so I dunno if its things1 things2 or t1, t2

3.) make it so that the things can get in, but once they are in, if they hit the edge (this on a border, btw) they bounce off of it...(look at the night of the ninja's to see what I mean, when the ninjas hit the border they bounce off)

Say you have a xspd. Just make that xspd positive if you walk to the left border (_x<0) and make it negative if you walk to the right border (_x>Stage.width)

umm...can you speak in a language a noob could understand?

does anyone want to help me?

At 1/31/08 06:41 PM, DPeppa wrote: Wow, don't think" 'ocks" are good animators? Thats agaisnt the bbs rules to bring people down like that. D:
Most CC, LL, GG ,SS ,SS artist are ver ygood at what they do

I agree, SOME of there animations are good, but a good number of them are spam or just plain junk (well...some of those groups more than others)...So I guess it would depend on the individual artists talent

At 1/31/08 03:18 AM, Vincoid wrote: Yeah, that is pretty bad, like Evion said.

Also, Tom will probably post a link in a month or so, for a Pico Day preloader that everone will have to use.

thats cuz its slower than it should be (cuz its stretched)

and plus, try animating with 12 by 12 squares, it takes forever!

At 1/30/08 09:57 PM, NG-Unit wrote: My Part, its not like normal animation, but thats what makes it great

hmm...its a little slower than it should be? On my computer it runs faster...ugh why can't flash run at the same speed as html?

On yet ANOTHER note

I have finished my piece (actually it has been finished for a while...)

My Part, its not like normal animation, but thats what makes it great

On another note, Cryoma wants the preloader/intro part, he can't post in the forums cuz he's a "bit banned at the moment"

he looks pretty good, here is an intro and preloader he made for arcadevoid.com

what does everyone think?

At 1/30/08 09:09 PM, Rudy wrote: Hm, the song/audio for this collab doesn't quite seem too pleasant for a Pico Collab. Even though it's the original audio loop for the series, It's still quite an annoying loop to begin with. Really wouldn't fit "collab material" for the song selection.

I strongly recommend in choosing another track for the collaboration.

hmm...there is always The wonderful pico day anthem by JAZZA, but then I'd have to cut up the parts, which I don't want to do, but if this would be a better collab song, I'd be willing to do it

I forgot some things

I need someone to do the intro, and if possible, a cool pico preloader.

I NEED YOU TO PUT THE FINISHED PRODUCTED IN A SINGLE MOVIE CLIP! If you don't know how to, pm me and i'll teach you

Name your symbols uniquely! for example, I would call mine NGU_Symbol1, or something along those lines

Ok, so we all know Pico Day 08 is coming pretty soon (April 31st for those who don't know). I decided to start my first collab (well, I started another collab but 0 people signed up...) and have it be ALL about Pico, I hope this one works out.

Specifications

You can use ANY style of animating here. You can use FBF, 100% Tweening (as long as it looks good), or anything else you can think of (I already have my part thought out, it's not going to be an animation...but more of an...art)

FPS: 24

Length: 10-30 seconds (may be a little longer or a little shorter, not much though)

Song: I'm thinking about using this one, but if you would like to suggest a song, feel free and I may change it :p

Background: White, but you could (and probably should) draw your own :p

Size: 400x400

Sounds: Try to stay away from sound effects, but you can use them if you want

Fonts: If you want to use custom fonts, send the fft file to me, or else I will have to change it to a text I actually have on my computer

Sticks/Sprites: I don't really like sprites, but if thats the only kind of animation you can do, we'll see...As for sticks, only if they are really good.

Rules: You may use blood, and a little swearing, but don't make it pointless

Things I Don't Want: 'Ocks, All "Gangs", Other Inappropriate Things (Besides Listed Above)

Deadline: Obviously Before Pico Day, So About April 20th Or Earlier.

All you have to say is "I'm In!" and post a piece of your work to see if you are acceptable for the collab.

Get Animating!

IF I FORGOT SOMETHING, PLEASE TELL ME

Hmm...I'm not sure

but I try to stay away from nextFrame(); when I'm inside movie clips because it never seems to work for me...

At 1/30/08 07:03 PM, dante224 wrote: export is for movie files... not flash... hope i helped

Lies, most people use export to export flash movies because then you don't get the extra's with it, and only the SWf or what you want

So don't listen to dante, I use export to export flash

But to answer your question, I have no idea! Maybe try copying all the frames, putting them in a new document and then trying to export it in that file?

But besides that I don't know

hope I helped

I know this might blow your mind here...but you use Macromedia Flash to make flash...I know its a new idea isn't it?

Oh, and just a quick note, don't expect to be amazingly awesome when you first get it, flash takes years to get good at, and another couple years to be able to make awesome games

But, that aside, good luck

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goto file, import to library, and then pick your file, it will appear in your library

then goto the frame where you want to import the music, and look at the properties menu, there should be a drop down arrow where you can select the music

if your using flash 8 anyway

Ugh. cmon people?