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I'm having trouble lip-syncing:

I've got two characters in an animation, both of whom have completely separate mouthes. On the main timeline is their body (movieclip), inside that is their head (movieclip), inside that are the individual parts (graphics).

The mouth is a graphic which contains different mouth shapes on different keyframes and in the head movieclip, I have put the lines of each character along the top and the face animates based on what they're saying.

I'm basically just not sure how to animate this best. Should I break it up more and have tons of layers or keep it as it is, and use actionscript to make events work how they should, i.e. when one person has finished talking it goes to the next set of frames on the main timeline to do some sort of movement, during which someone else talks and then the main timeline pauses, and makes another talking animation?

Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.

My audio submissions account: http://dan-plus-add.newgrounds.com/

That's under the name Dan Plus Add

Latest (and possible best?) song is: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/9 4608

I hope you like :)

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I tried streaming sound instead of eventing it, and that works fine. Will this cause any problems in the future in terms of loading though? By which I mean, does it stream the sound as you're watching it, thus possibly resulting in no sound for someone with a very slow connection?

@BlueHippo: Can't I just use stopallsounds(); when I want it to stop? Although actually, I do find now that it goes STRAIGHT onto the next line, stopping after the start of it. This is bad. I think I need to separate the sounds quite a lot to counter this.

Anybody have any more ideas? Thanks again!

I've done some lip-syncing in an animation, and when I preview it from within flash (along the timeline, that is, by pressing Enter), it all looks and sounds great. But then any other kind of preview slows down the animation so that every frame, the animation is slightly more behind the voice than in the last frame. Is this a common problem, and if so, how can it be resolved?

Thanks.

At 5/27/07 11:43 AM, squidly wrote: They are all stupid spam gangs.

I totally agree. A flash I posted yesterday was basically ignored because by the time it passed moderation it was at the bottom. It only got 350ish views, compared with some LL movies, even those with lower scores than mine which had upwards of 1,000. It's stupid and unfair for anyone who's just trying to get a little bit of exposure when half of the users on the portal at the time are simply aiming to raise the batting average of half-arsed LL movies.

Frankly, I think a system should be in place so that movies related to a gang somehow don't get in the way of independent movies.

At 11/23/06 06:38 AM, Dan-Plus-Add wrote: How about a music for Scouting Orders for Drone #239? Anyone got any inspiration from that?

Can be downloaded at http://www.danielhough.co.uk/music/scoutingor ders.mp3 or is on NG audio if that's more convenient somehow.

Whoops. That was my music account. I of course meant music video for the song. Anyone interested?

http://www.danielhough.co.uk/music/scoutingor ders.mp3

At 11/13/06 02:32 PM, Gorilla-Studios wrote: Windows movie maker perhaps?

Ahh but the problem is, what do I do with it? What kind of stuff could I include in such a video?

No time right now, plus I can't think of any sort of music video to put to it, I was hoping maybe someone else could be inspired.

Sorry to bump again but it worked last time. Still no takers? =)

Good idea, thank you =)

Lyrics:
Logging on one day
To my favourite forum
Waiting for a chance to post
Then I see a thread, entitled
"This is boring"
And I have to have a go.

But then I get inside I see so many people with their
Messages of in-jokes and insults that no-one really gets but them
But I post anyway I say "Oh yeah LOL this is ghey!"
The replies they came in so fast, whipping me right in the ass

What is a n00b to do, I don't know anything about this forum.
Don't know what to say, what does ZING! mean, and FNAR and who's the admin?
It's all so new to me, why must I face hostility and anger?
I've been here for a week, and I feel scared!

So I take break
Just to get my senses
Back so I can try again
It'll be OK
But who've I offended?
Maybe I'll apologize

I click "New Topic", post a message saying "Sorry for my
n00bishness, I can't help it I'm new 'round here give me a break"
But they can't understand and flame me back to my homeland
I can't stand these elitist dicks, is this how they get their kicks?

What is a n00b to do, I don't know anything about this forum.
Don't know how to act, how do I change my signature and picture?
It's all so new to me, why must I face hostility and anger?
I've been here for a week, and I feel scared!

Everything'll be fine, everything'll be fine, everything'll be fine.
Just give it time, just give it time, just give it time.

What is a n00b to do, I don't know anything about this forum.
Don't know what to say, what does ZING! mean, and FNAR and who's the admin?
It's all so new to me, why must I change my ways just to fit in?
I've been here for a week, and I am so intimated!

What is a n00b to do, I don't know anything about this forum.
Don't know how to act, how do I change my signature and picture?
It's all so new to me, why must I face these stuck-up pricks
I've been here for a week, and I feel scared!

Once again, I'm in the process of re-recording this, so the quality (and vocals - my voice has improved over the last few months) will be greater than the currently available to download version.

No takers?

I'm looking for someone to make an animation to go along with my song, "What is a n00b to do?" which can be downloaded from http://danielhough.co.uk/music/whatisan00btod o.mp3 - I'm thinking about recording one of better quality, and if anyone can think of a way I might be able to put in some drums or maybe even electric guitar in the chorus that'd be great. However, in the meantime, anybody who might be interested in doing a music video for this, please say so. I'll give you pretty much full control over the content of the video although I'd like to see some evidence of your ability as an animator by seeing some of the work you've done in the past.

Thanks =D

Very impressive, Lachlan! Any chance we could have a look at the code, or any chance we'll be seeing full games made by you using this code? It could make for great platformers! The only problem I've seen is that on the upper level, the ball doesn't quite touch the platform, it sorta floats above it and doesn't bounce properly. Everything else is brilliant though.

Being a fan of the book and the soundtrack, I can say that this lived up to both. Although the setting was totally different, so many of the original parts were implemented very well. Also, to whoever said the horn was a good sound to use: Yes, definetly. Ulaahh wouldn't have worked. Not in that context.

I've heard that using OpenOffice.org you can save a powerpoint presentation as a .swf - go to www.openoffice.org, download it there. It's an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, it's very good.

Hey there. I need tips on drawing hair, can anyone offer me any? It needs to be relatively realistic, and a style like one you might find on a slimy salesman...slick, quiffed. Any tips or tutorials? Thanks.

Good idea, but suggestions:

1) Kill the music.
2) Get more interesting screens
3) Higher frame rate, yet make make things move a little slower.
4) When blue hits a wall, it stops. Please fix that.
5) Make level 2 easier! :-(

Apart from that, I love the idea, so keep at it.

Excellent, thank you very much.

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately there isn't anything there that really covers fire. I searched but didn't find much. There was one, but the fire it made wasn't really suitable. I need something slightly realistic. Any ideas?

I'd like to try and create an animated fire movieclip (12fps - yes I know, slow...but I'm too far into the movie to change it now) and I'm having trouble. Can anyone point me in the direction of a decent tutorial, or perhaps a sample movieclip I can download somewhere? Cheers if anyone can.

This sounds fantastic. I'm a huge Muse fan, I'll see what I can come up with.

I suppose I could do that. A few more layers can't hurt, eh? Okay, thanks, I'll do that.

The problem is, if I put them in seperate layers, I won't be able to bring one thing forward (it's supposed be to walking over two sets of hills and then a set of houses) because layer order can't be changed half way through an animation, can it? Thanks so far.

This probably sounds like a really stupid question, but I'm rather confused. I've got a few symbols on a layer, and four of them will be moving, and they will be coming further forward (in front of the other symbols) as the timeline passes, and I want them to do motion tweens too. However, it isn't working because of the whole "not with more than one symbol or group" thing, so I group them all and it still doesn't work. Annoyance to the max! Anyway, what on Earth can I do?

Cheers for any help.

1. It was an example code, I wasn't going to find the ASCii for ` for him, he has to do something.

Oh, I didn't realise you simply had to get the ASCII for it to use it in flash. Thanks!

At 5/14/05 05:02 PM, DEADSiM2 wrote:

At 5/14/05 04:39 PM, Fragsta wrote: stuff

Example code:

Put this on the MC, make sure the MC is the foremost object.

onClipEvent(load){
this._visible=false;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
this._visible=true;
}
}

Hmm...thank you very much. However, it would work better with another key such as the ` key. I do appreciate that it was only an example script though. Cheers.

There must be a way of using other keys, right?

I'm creating a game, and in it I want to be able to use a developer's console. Preferably, I'd like it to pop up once ` is pressed. I've got the console in a movieclip, and its working when its visible, but making it pop up (as in, it is usually hidden and unusable, but when the key is pressed it appears over everything else) is another issue. Surely I need an on(keypress) for this? Or is it a listener of some type? I'd be grateful if anyone can help.

I fixed it. I believe there was something wrong with the order in which I did the selection process, so i grouped all the else ifs so that it was shorter and only one error message is displayed. All done, thanks everyone for your help!

At 4/22/05 02:29 PM, Afro_Ninja wrote:

At 4/22/05 02:23 PM, Fragsta wrote: Thanks everyone, but none of this is helping. Okay, let's look at the problem again:

In the root, on a certain keyframe I have this line:

variable="";

On the same keyframe there is a text box, and in properties, in the 'var' box the word variable is there, as it is linked to the variable 'variable'.

On the same keyframe is a button. Within an if, there is this code:

} else if (_root.variable == "") {
getURL("javascript:alert('There is nothing in the variable!!')");
}

No errors are returned, it simply does not work...not with "", not with undefined, not with null. What am I doing wrong? Thanks again.

I'm pretty sure flash doesn't support "javascript:alert"

Actually it does, if within a geturl. It works on the other parts of the if statement, where I check that other text variables have certain values or add up to certain values, etc, etc. Thanks anyway.

Thanks everyone, but none of this is helping. Okay, let's look at the problem again:

In the root, on a certain keyframe I have this line:

variable="";

On the same keyframe there is a text box, and in properties, in the 'var' box the word variable is there, as it is linked to the variable 'variable'.

On the same keyframe is a button. Within an if, there is this code:

} else if (_root.variable == "") {
getURL("javascript:alert('There is nothing in the variable!!')");
}

No errors are returned, it simply does not work...not with "", not with undefined, not with null. What am I doing wrong? Thanks again.