644 Forum Posts by "MichaelJ"
Whoops.. thanks.
At 7/12/10 03:25 PM, ronk wrote: You should also make it so that i don't have to click on the letters of the button. Putting a blank alpha background on the button symbol should work.
There is a magical frame included in every button that is made specifically for this purpose...
Your best bet is to not attach the sounds with actionscript. Do it the safe, 100% effective way. Drag your sound into every frame you want it to play, then select "start" and "loop" and then when you get to the button, go into the button, drag the sound into the "down" position of the button frame, and select "stop," like so:
You gotta give some examples of your animation skills dude.
sorry the instance name is "zombie1" not "z1"
Hey I woke up mentally retarded today... I have a movie clip playing and when I click a button, I want it to stop. The movie clip has an instance name of "z1". I have something like
on(press){
zombie1.stop();
}
But that doesn't work, what is the correct way to make it stop and do I need to do the linkage thing for actionscript? (AS2, flash8)
This is really simple yet I forgot how to do it. I have been animation non-stop for a week and my brain is getting softer.....
Sorry for the triple post, but why is flash 8 saying this every time I export movie? It didn't do this before I got the swf decompiler...
Cue the party music! I got it back!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDD
Heya Omar. I found out that a certain sound I imported before saving is what corrupted the file. The SWF does not have the sound in it, so the .fla is corrupted but not the swf.
The animation was actually a whole entire cutscene of zombies being shot and it was so awesome, I really hope I can get it back.
I spent all day (literally) working on an animation, and I went to save it and it froze up, then it said error. When I tried to open the file, it says "An error occurred opening the file." After that flash closes. I am using Flash 8. I still have the .fla and .swf. How can I get the file back????
I have heard of programs that can retrieve the .fla from a swf, but I don't know what they are called, and I think they cost a lot of money. Please help me!
Vexagon, I love flash8. I tried CS3 but I didn't like it at all. If you are really good with AS, I guess flash 8 would be a little old, but for animation, it works just fine. I would know, I just wasted my time making a pillow look 3D for my new zombie game and it looks awesome! <insert lol here>
I might be totally wrong, but i think cs4 can convert to cs3m but not flash 8. I think he has to convert it to cs3 so u can convert it to flash 8. I might be wrong though
Aight well if anyone who sees this has CS3 can ya convert it for me, thx.
Err... should have told u flash 8 (unexpected file format) Sorry! Can you convert it?
At 7/10/10 06:41 PM, funkycaveman wrote: That effect is easy, you can do it using masks and attaching the mask to the cursor. Are you using AS2 or AS3, I could try and find a tutorial for you.
AS2
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 7099 an effect like in this game when you go inside ... how do i do it?
I guess you could upload them to a site like spamtheweb.com and import them by the URLs. I don't know the code for that though.
Easy Fix! Drag the little thing close to before where the audio starts, try to make it ahead of the animation slightly and it should all be in line. I find that when I stream sounds they always sound horrible (like they are in a can)
These masks are confusing me, I have checked a bunch of tutorials, but they aren't helping. How do I make everything black but have a gradient circle (with 0 alpha in middle and 100 on the sides) follow the mouse so it looks like a flashlight? Can someone give me a short explanation of how to do it?
>>> before i know i could use masks, I made a 1000X1000 box with the gradient circle in the middle follow the mouse and it lagged like CRAZY! lol <<<<<< FAIL
If it is possible, the only reason I would think you would need to load external swfs would be because of filesize, (in my case anyway) but I don't know if they will let you go over 10mb even with external swfs. If what you are asking is possible, I'd like to know how to do it too.
Nope that didn't work either, I will probably just have to convert my audio from wav to mp3 and hope it doesnt go over 10 mb...
The swf uploaded, but where the video should play, it's black. It didn't load. Is there a way to like upload the video somewhere online, and then link it in AS to the flash so that it can stream from it? If so, how do I do it?
At 7/9/10 11:55 AM, GreenAlienAnimations wrote: Well, if you want to test it to see if it will work on Newgrounds, you could upload it to a .swf hosting site such as swfcabin.com or spamtheweb.com. Don't worry, they aren't public there.
Good idea, it's uploading now, hopefully it works.
So In the game I am making, the opening scene makes the file size too large, so I converted it to an AVI and imported it using "Stream from flash communication server." It works fine, but if I move the FLV file away from the swf, (in another folder) It doesn't play. This is making me think that when I put the swf on Newgrounds, the video will not play. How do I get it to play when I put it on Newgrounds? I am thinking I will have to upload the FLV somewhere and stream from it, but I have no earthly idea how to. Any help would be appreciated.
>Remember, I am only doing this opening video thing because the file size gets too large when it's not an AVI, and it gets laggy. If there is a way to reduce the file size of a swf, (drastically) please let me know. This video saves me like 4 MB swf size!
Want me to help? U didn't email me back.
I don't know who to ask really, so I thought someone here might know, is there a way on facebook to have a different thumbnail from your profile pic?
At 4/10/10 09:39 PM, bobtheplaya wrote: uuuhhhhhh?
Better Bloody Head
