How do I fade from black to a scene

[EthanBrazukas]

I've been trying to teach myself to use flash using youtube tutorials, but I decided it might be better to ask here. I am trying to figure out how to fade from black to a scene. I'm using Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS2. I need to find out fast, because my deadline for this project is in 4 days! (five if it's late)

Thanks for reading.

[MacDonaldFin]

Well, a basic way of doing it is creating a black box graphic with an alpha of 100% then after so many frames set the alpha to 0%. Then go back to the frame with 100% alpha and right click, then create motion tween.

The amount of frames is entirely up to how long you want the graphic to fade for.

Hope that helps.

[EthanBrazukas]

At 12/17/12 04:19 PM, MacDonaldFin wrote: Well, a basic way of doing it is creating a black box graphic with an alpha of 100% then after so many frames set the alpha to 0%. Then go back to the frame with 100% alpha and right click, then create motion tween.

The amount of frames is entirely up to how long you want the graphic to fade for.

Hope that helps.

Thanks!

[EthanBrazukas]

At 12/17/12 04:19 PM, MacDonaldFin wrote: Well, a basic way of doing it is creating a black box graphic with an alpha of 100% then after so many frames set the alpha to 0%. Then go back to the frame with 100% alpha and right click, then create motion tween.

The amount of frames is entirely up to how long you want the graphic to fade for.

Hope that helps.

But wait, how do I find the part with the alpha? I've made the box but I can't see anything that says alpha

[EthanBrazukas]

Nevermind, I found it. Sorry for so many posts.

[MacDonaldFin]

Righty, click on your graphic, then click the properties tab, go to color effect, go to the drop down menu called style and finally click alpha. There you should be able to change the alpha settings.

[MacDonaldFin]

Haha, no worries! Glad to be of help.

[jynxxd]

At 12/17/12 04:19 PM, MacDonaldFin wrote: Well, a basic way of doing it is creating a black box graphic with an alpha of 100% then after so many frames set the alpha to 0%. Then go back to the frame with 100% alpha and right click, then create motion tween.

The amount of frames is entirely up to how long you want the graphic to fade for.

Hope that helps.

~~~So, i'm completely new to animation and flash (teaching myself on cs6 on as3). what is a black box graphic and how do i make one? trying to do the opposite from original post. trying to go from intro to black then to scene. Any ideas? here's a pic of what i'm working with.

[Max-Vador]

well for good ol AS 2.0(*rather 1.0)

draw a black rectangle over your screen.
convert to movieclip F8

put these actions on it

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	_alpha--;
	if (_alpha < 0)
	{
		removeMovieClip(this);
	}

}

[MacDonaldFin]

At 12/30/12 12:48 PM, jynxxd wrote: ~~~So, i'm completely new to animation and flash (teaching myself on cs6 on as3). what is a black box graphic and how do i make one? trying to do the opposite from original post. trying to go from intro to black then to scene. Any ideas? here's a pic of what i'm working with.

The black box I was referring to in my previous post is simply a shape I drew with the rectangle tool.

Now onto the instructions, I'm not sure of how well you understand flash so I'll just explain it as simply as I can:

Well, first off, select the rectangle tool in your tools bar(the little square symbol highlighted below). Then simply click and drag the cursor as a box appears, then just release the mouse button when the box is the same size as your animation's display(or slightly larger if you like, just make sure it covers the animation's display.)

Now the next bit is to switch to the selection tool(the black cursor symbol on your tool bar). Then ctrl + click(or right click if you have a multi-button mouse) on the newly created rectangle, select convert to symbol and make it a graphic, name it whatever you want.

Now, for the main fading part, either use Max-Vador's way that uses Actionscript version 2 (I personally have nothing wrong with it) but if you are set on using Actionscript 3 or don't want to code, then do this:

Create two keyframes, both with the newly created graphic, for the first keyframe set the graphic's alpha settings(how to access them, explained in my previous post) to zero. Now right click on the first keyframe and select create classic tween. Now right click again and select insert frame, keep doing this until your graphic's fade out speed is what you want. For the fading into the next scene, a smooth transition would be to simply take the fading out animation you have in the previous scene and just make it so the graphic in the first keyframe has alpha settings as 100 and the graphic in the last keyframe of your fading in animation as 0.

Hope that helps with what you are doing!