BIG QUESTION ABOUT FLASH LOADERS.

[DutchClock]

I have a question.I'm a noob I know almost everything about flash except for how to make a movie loader. How do u make a movie loader?

[iop321]

just follow this short gide- im sure youll understand afterwoulds.

on the first scene on frame 5, have an action that says gotoandplay first frame, (so it makes a repedative loop, see?). Then on fram 3, stick in another action. choose the ifframeloaded action and imput the last fram in your movie.
after the ifframeload action, have a gotoandplay action this time with frame 6.

its like a loop that is broken only when the entire film is loaded, seeing as i helped you, be sure to pop in a nice reveiw on my films!! (ok, you dont have to) :P

[DutchClock]

Yeah, it makes sense! Thanks, Dude!

[DutchClock]

Right thanks, dude! It makes sense too!

[Matrix-DX]

You just said that you knew everything about flash yet you are a n00b, very strange....Anyways why did you double post with your posts switched around? I don't get it...

[jjb2004]

lol the way he did is bad, lol use this way instead, it tells u how to do bars and percents:

1) on ur first scene ur gonna have 3 frames, one for all the fun fun loading bar and stuff the other for all the actions

2) if u want a loader bar, make a movie clip with 100 frames with a motion tweened bar making it filled up to empty...name the instance loaderbar

3) if u want a percent loaded dealio, make a dynamic texy box name that variable 'percent'

got that so far? good.

those should be put on the layer for the loading stuff....on the second frame just add another frame, so its the same as the first. and on the third make that where it goes if its done loading, such as a frame that has play or an intro or something.

4) in the first frame on the actions layer put the following code:

if (_root.getBytesLoaded()>=_root.getBytesTotal())
{
gotoAndStop (3);
}
num = int((_root.getBytesLoaded())/(_root.getBytesTotal())*100);

loaderbar.gotoAndStop(num);

percent = int((_root.getBytesLoaded())/(_root.getBytesTotal())*100)+"%";

...pretty self-explanitory

5) on the second actions frame put a loop to make it go back to the first frame, lol so just:

gotoAndPlay (1);

6) last but not least, put the stop(); on the 3rd frame so it will stop when loaded :)

now that should work! :) yay!

-jeffy

[DutchClock]

First of all, I meant a noob to newgrounds.com!
Second, the double post was an accident!

[link77]

i'm a master of flash but can you make the game load faster?

[link77]

At 12/2/02 03:44 PM, O-Jay wrote: I have a question.I'm a noob I know almost everything about flash except for how to make a movie loader. How do u make a movie loader?

you have to make it wait for some hours and then it will ask you do you want to make it load just say yes and there you go

[Mr-Y]

You either use actionscript to stop the movie (you can make the user view something or make it go in a continuous cycle of frames while it's loading, and use the "ifframeisloaded" command to make it play the movie by going to a certain frame when it's loaded. This is one of the basics of Flash. If you are still having trouble with it, get a preloader off someone or download it off the Internet - you just have to search and find it, it's pretty easy.