Question about preloaders

[Generations1st]

I posted this question on the wrong thread earlier by the way,and i was told this was the right place.
so just out of curiosity, is it possible to merge an animated Gif to a pre-loader.
I can only assume it has to be treated as a graphic symbol subject to the number of frames to be required for this to
be somewhat achievable, if it is, then is there a frame limit if the animation was to be looped?

[everette00]

At 6/21/12 09:11 PM, Generations1st wrote: I posted this question on the wrong thread earlier by the way,and i was told this was the right place.
so just out of curiosity, is it possible to merge an animated Gif to a pre-loader.
I can only assume it has to be treated as a graphic symbol subject to the number of frames to be required for this to
be somewhat achievable, if it is, then is there a frame limit if the animation was to be looped?

OK, now that you're in the correct forum, I can help you now! :) Yes, it is possible to do animated elements inside of a preloader. You just have to keep in-mind how big the animation is. A huge animation (a lot of data) is going to keep the preloader from doing its job effectively, I would think.

[Generations1st]

At 6/21/12 09:53 PM, everette00 wrote: OK, now that you're in the correct forum, I can help you now! :) Yes, it is possible to do animated elements inside of a preloader. You just have to keep in-mind how big the animation is. A huge animation (a lot of data) is going to keep the preloader from doing its job effectively, I would think.

That's good news and the animation loop wouldn't be any bigger than 50kb, or is that overdoing it?
Do you know how this is done? because it can't be as simple as slapping a gif in front of the key-frames, i wouldn't expect it to work without some sort of format.

[everette00]

At 6/21/12 10:19 PM, Generations1st wrote: That's good news and the animation loop wouldn't be any bigger than 50kb, or is that overdoing it?
Do you know how this is done? because it can't be as simple as slapping a gif in front of the key-frames, i wouldn't expect it to work without some sort of format.

50KB is pretty small, so you're good. GIF is a format, but I'm not sure if it would work either. I've never worked with GIF before. However, preloaders are part of the overall file, and thus you can use .fla files for the animation. From what I could tell, it would be no different than while your playing your actual movie. Very little scripting involved too.