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Yay i managed to finish my animation cause of the extra days givin for the mgs collab. I'm going to send it in today ;)

At 5/20/08 02:38 PM, Sonofgoku1 wrote: Ok... I'm so pissed at myself...

I animated it without putting it into a movie clip, so now I'm fucked... I have the thing done, but When I try moving the frames over into a movie clip it screws everything up!

Is there anything I can do to salavge this project?! I didn't invest all this f***ing time into this to not be able to have the op. to get in!

Hey, dont worry about it, I always do this, sometimes on purpose because I cant be arsed with the hassle of accidently double-clicking the background. Its easy to fix

First of all, make a red-line box where the screen boundries are, on a layer ontop of your main animation in the flash movie.
Next, get the circle tool, or somthing, and draw a circle.
Convert that circle to, in your case "Sonofgoku_movie" or somthing along those lines.
Now, go back into your main flash, highlight ALL of your frames, and rightclick -> copy frames.
Next, go into your circle "movie" movieclip, and delete the circle.
Now, paste your frames into the movieclip, the movie should transfer pretty much exactly as it was in your main flash timeline.

HOWEVER, the likleyhood is that your movie will now be off-centre, so this is where the "Red line box" comes in handy.

When you try and move a movieclip, it displays the contents as lines, so basicly, look at your "movie" movieclip, and focus on the "red line box", when you start to move your MC, keep track of which of the "seethrough" (They arnt really, just thin) lines is the "Red line box".

Then you must drag the movieclip so that the transparent "RLB" matches over the movie dimensions on the canvas. (If you have trouble seeing the canvas, you should probably delete the original animation frames)

Once you line it up, you can delete extra frames and layers, then just hit ctrl+enter and it should play like it did previously.

Notes:
1. You should delete the RLB once you are done with it, as it can sometimes show up in the movie accidently
2. Sound sometimes goes out of sync when you do this, It did with me. Either re-arrange your sound files in the timeline so it corresponds with...how it should work, or just simply move your movieclip by a few pixels, that seemed to sort it out for me.

Hope that helped!

Also, Sammy, Woot! Babysnake :D

At 5/21/08 03:05 AM, MiddleFingerRings wrote:

At 5/21/08 02:35 AM, Hokey-Mokey wrote:

At 5/21/08 02:07 AM, SardonicSamurai wrote:

The deadline was yesterday.

And if you'd read it, you'd find out that people can submit 2 or 3 days afterwards.

Where does it say this? I've been following the whole topic but not noticed it (maybe I just forgot though).

If anyone needs some last min MGS style music, I've got two tracks on the audio portal that are good for MGS style background music and fight music.

Good luck to everyone who's rishing to finish in time

At 5/21/08 07:40 AM, xXSammyXx wrote: Yay i managed to finish my animation cause of the extra days givin for the mgs collab. I'm going to send it in today ;)

We've been given extra days??? I managed to send mine in yesterday, and I thought I wasn't going to make it!!! Damn, this means I'll have to wait extra for the collab to come out to find out how my submission did!

At 5/21/08 11:12 AM, Ockeroid wrote: Where does it say this? I've been following the whole topic but not noticed it (maybe I just forgot though).

It says on johnny's post
He also said that the collab would come out in between the 1st and 12th of june.

Well, it seems like everybody put here what they have done. This is a screenshot of mine:

At 3/28/08 08:25 PM, RadiatorKitten wrote: Yeah...my part is going to be 'snake' on a plane!

Like solid snake! Get it har har!

Yeah...Samuel L Jackson will be in it of course...

hope to have it done by may!

ooh, bad move buddy. now about 50 (maybe 69 XD) people are going to use ur idea. oh, one more thing. COCK JOKE.

At 5/21/08 01:18 PM, Br1regna wrote: Well, it seems like everybody put here what they have done. This is a screenshot of mine:

Looks good!

I sent my submission 3 days ago... still no reply!

Good luck to all submissions. :D

He also said that the collab would come out in between the 1st and 12th of june.

SAY WHAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

At 5/21/08 07:02 PM, WAaAzZAaA wrote:

He also said that the collab would come out in between the 1st and 12th of june.

SAY WHAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

what

I doubt mine will get in. It is really short and really simple, but I DID make an effort with it. It isn't a box or a cock joke. I sent it on the 18th May (or was it 19th?) and haven't got a response so far so it doesn't look too good for me. Maybe they'll have pity on a newbie and will want to encourage the less-experienced? Well, if not, I'll be upset, but I'll get over it, I guess. I can't wait to see the finished collab!!! Good luck, Metal-Gearheads.

At 5/22/08 12:12 PM, freaky-dreamer wrote: I doubt mine will get in. It is really short and really simple, but I DID make an effort with it. It isn't a box or a cock joke. I sent it on the 18th May (or was it 19th?) and haven't got a response so far so it doesn't look too good for me. Maybe they'll have pity on a newbie and will want to encourage the less-experienced? Well, if not, I'll be upset, but I'll get over it, I guess. I can't wait to see the finished collab!!! Good luck, Metal-Gearheads.

I doubt they are going to respond to everyone, whether they get in or not.
On Johnny's post he said they have to go through around 200 submissions... which is allot.

At 5/22/08 12:35 PM, Oobar wrote:
I doubt they are going to respond to everyone, whether they get in or not.
On Johnny's post he said they have to go through around 200 submissions... which is allot.

yeah, that is a lot, maybe the selection process can take a week or more

wow i would love to have a tankman man :D, could be awesome and maybe... nah

At 5/22/08 12:35 PM, Oobar wrote:

At 5/22/08 12:12 PM, freaky-dreamer wrote: I doubt mine will get in. It is really short and really simple, but I DID make an effort with it. It isn't a box or a cock joke. I sent it on the 18th May (or was it 19th?) and haven't got a response so far so it doesn't look too good for me. Maybe they'll have pity on a newbie and will want to encourage the less-experienced? Well, if not, I'll be upset, but I'll get over it, I guess. I can't wait to see the finished collab!!! Good luck, Metal-Gearheads.

I doubt they are going to respond to everyone, whether they get in or not.
On Johnny's post he said they have to go through around 200 submissions... which is a lot.

200 submissions times 15 seconds *as an average per say* = 3000 seconds = 50 mins, and there are probably alot more since the 20th past... so lets say about 2 hours to sift through all the crap entries and find the good ones and debate on if they should get in or not.

In other words give them some time. when they notify us they will, so RELAX!

Grah, didn't hear about this until really recently(all of five days in fact), didn't leave me much time to do anything beautiful, but I think its a solid joke worth consideration. In any case, I just want to see how this collab turns out.

on reflection, I submitted it with "Metal Gear Collab-1337933535" in the e-mail subject, I don't suppose it changes anything...does it? I just don't want to have submitted it wrong.

Newbie and paranoid, not a good combination

I sent mine in back in... April? But my .fla was too big. They told me to send the .swf and they'd see if they wanted the .fla - never replied. I'm guessing that's a no, unless they have a flash decompiler and actually thought my segment was good enough to put in.

Well then, this is my... First post on the forums.. Well, this isn't ACTUALLY the forums right?..

Gah, anyway.

For those of you who are having file size problems, it's because of how Flash saves the files. If you do the quick ctrl-S or just click Save, then it'll just build on top of your file size.

So what you have to do is Save As. Not as fast, but it'll lower your file size.

Oh! I think you have to save it as a different name too. But no worries, you can change it back once you've saved it..

Just wanted to help.

You guys really need to calm down...

So you havn't gotten a reply from Stamper, Utah, or the others yet... SO WHAT!?

There is still alot of time between now and the collabs release, so please be patient.

I repeat...

BE PATIENT!!!! YOU'LL KNOW WHEN YOU KNOW!!!!

You are so goddamn right!

At 5/22/08 06:17 PM, Sonofgoku1 wrote:

At 5/22/08 12:35 PM, Oobar wrote:

At 5/22/08 12:12 PM, freaky-dreamer wrote: I doubt mine will get in. It is really short and really simple, but I DID make an effort with it. It isn't a box or a cock joke. I sent it on the 18th May (or was it 19th?) and haven't got a response so far so it doesn't look too good for me. Maybe they'll have pity on a newbie and will want to encourage the less-experienced? Well, if not, I'll be upset, but I'll get over it, I guess. I can't wait to see the finished collab!!! Good luck, Metal-Gearheads.

I doubt they are going to respond to everyone, whether they get in or not.
On Johnny's post he said they have to go through around 200 submissions... which is a lot.

200 submissions times 15 seconds *as an average per say* = 3000 seconds = 50 mins, and there are probably alot more since the 20th past... so lets say about 2 hours to sift through all the crap entries and find the good ones and debate on if they should get in or not.

In other words give them some time. when they notify us they will, so RELAX!

That's alot of submissions!!! Yeah I guess I should chill. I'm just nervy because, however simple it is, it's my first submission. But yeah.... relax... relax... don't panic... as Manny says on Black Books when he eats the Little Book of Calm: "Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it..."

Not to be fussy and all but do you people believe I should send a fixed (no typo) version of my .fla, or, that would just be being picky and a big pain in their arses...?

At 5/23/08 03:47 AM, L4zyL30 wrote: For those of you who are having file size problems, it's because of how Flash saves the files. If you do the quick ctrl-S or just click Save, then it'll just build on top of your file size.

So what you have to do is Save As. Not as fast, but it'll lower your file size.

Couldn't you also use the "Save and Compact" command?

I would do so much for those goodies! but im not the animating type...shame

At 5/23/08 02:44 PM, DuLt wrote: Not to be fussy and all but do you people believe I should send a fixed (no typo) version of my .fla, or, that would just be being picky and a big pain in their arses...?

It depends on how bad the typos are, and how many. If it's just one or two, then I wouldn't bother. After all, as someone else just said, they have to go through a lot of submissions, so sending them another .swf with minor fixes might be kind of obnoxious. And anyway, the people watching might not even notice, unless they're really severe. So if it's really noticeable, then I'd just go ahead and send it in.

At 5/23/08 02:50 PM, Lizardcommando wrote:

At 5/23/08 03:47 AM, L4zyL30 wrote: For those of you who are having file size problems, it's because of how Flash saves the files. If you do the quick ctrl-S or just click Save, then it'll just build on top of your file size.

So what you have to do is Save As. Not as fast, but it'll lower your file size.

Couldn't you also use the "Save and Compact" command?

Yup.
I got a shock when mine said 40MB, then I deleted all the reference videos I didn't need any more and clicked 'Save and Compact' and I went down to a tidy 7MB.

Mine went (uncompacted and everything) 9.5 mbs.

Also the typo is an N for an M...

At 5/23/08 06:18 PM, Ockeroid wrote: I got a shock when mine said 40MB, then I deleted all the reference videos I didn't need any more and clicked 'Save and Compact' and I went down to a tidy 7MB.

WEhw- do you use models and reference videos?? i know you just want to send your message with your works, but i would prefer you to draw. Just to see if you know some piece of anatomy :P