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Preloading: For Dummies

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Homeless

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Date Submitted

07/16/2007 | 01:55AM EST

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3.48 / 5.00

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I know this isn't going to help everybody, but I know there are people out there who are wondering how to make a preloader, so this is for them. Not people who know what they're doing or don't care and want free BLAM points.

Before you open this up, I'm hoping you have seen some Flash tutorials about how to use the timeline and symbols. I sort of explain it but not very good. I just focused on the Preloading ActionScript part.

This is different than the Newgrounds Free Preloader. It's easier to understand how it works, so it's easier to use this outline to make it your own preloader. It has instructions how to make a loadbar, percent loaded text, and play button.

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Average Score: 7.3 / 10

Score: 7
volkain5

"Pretty good"

date: February 20, 2008

i liked how u explained everything.. but i coulnd't get it to work in flash 8 srry :'( whatever.. i followed exactly what u said...

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Score: 7
KWAS71KCK

"good one"

date: July 22, 2007

that was a pretty nice preloader tutorial.... anybody need help on this subject? If you do, then this one is for you!

July 27, 2007

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what he said!

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Score: 4
henke37

"Better then most tutorials"

date: July 17, 2007

I do kinda like it, very skillfully done.
There is just one thing, the gotoAndPlay(1) part, that is old. Just stop the moiveclip (_root is one btw)
and add an event handler for the clip event "EnterFrame"
_root.onEnterFrame=function () {}
Also, it does say a few things about the submission if it doesn't use it's own preloader.

July 17, 2007

Author's Response:

_root doesn't stop the movieclip. That stops the whole movie. _root.stop() is what the ng and my preloader use to stop the movie at the first frame.

I have to use the gotoAndPlay(1) to loop the movieclip so it will keep refreshing the actionscript until the whole movie is loaded, so it won't check the bytes loaded once and stop there. It keeps looping in frames 1 and 2 of the symbol until percent == 100, than it goes to frame loaded (playbutton)

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Score: 10
omgcall411

"this was awesome!!"

date: July 17, 2007

i loved this it helped me a lot! thank you SOO much!!

July 27, 2007

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your welcome

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theflashclock

"this sucked"

date: July 16, 2007

OK.... this was OK I guess but you really gotta put sound!!

July 17, 2007

Author's Response:

I might upload a new file later.

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