I'm very new to using flash and actionscript 3.
I've created an animation in my timeline which works when I test the scene & play. However, when I get to testing the movie, a lot of the scenes fail to start the animation.
I've put some basic code into my actionscript which are the basic gotoandstop buttons to allow me to go to another scene.
Hope someone can help!
Id say that using the built in 'scenes' at all in Flash are a bad idea(ever). You can do this much easier by creating each of your animations in their own MovieClips and placing those clips on their own frames on the main timeline, then simply using gotoAndStop() on your buttons to navigate between the frames you have your animation MovieClips on. - Good Luck!
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So for my latest Flash project, I'm designing a game. The dimetric character can move in 8 directions. I've been given the spritesheets for the hats, hair styles, etc., that the player can wear.
The spritesheets contain the images for each direction, AND they contain four frames of animation (four per direction) for when the player is walking. This is basically the layout of the Spritesheet (and all of the files and "frames" are the same size, which makes things easier):
[IDLE] [WALKING]
[S][SE][E][N][NW][W][S1][S2][S3][S4][SE1][SE2]...
My goal is to embed all of the items in a single file other than the main one. But I need to implement walking animation.
One thought I had is to set the main SWF's framerate to 7 FPS, then use an Event.ENTER_FRAME handler to alternate between the walking ones. Programmatically animating.
Another thought is to create SWFs for each item of clothing, then use motion tweening to move the spritesheet symbol over the stage.
What I'd really like it so avoid using Adobe Animate entirely. Even if there's an approach that requires the use of Flex, I'd take it if it meant saying goodbye to graphically-designing.
using flash builder (flex) does not mean that good bye graphic! there is a relationship between Adobe Flash and any As3 Ide like FlashBuilder or FlashDevelop.
exporting movieclips and everything in library with .swc format, and then importing it by the IDE, read this
My goal is to embed all of the items in a single file other than the
main one. But I need to implement walking animation.
One thought I had is to set the main SWF's framerate to 7 FPS, then
use an Event.ENTER_FRAME handler to alternate between the walking
ones. Programmatically animating.
i dont undrestand! why 7 fps and also why Event.ENTER_FRAME
there might be a character movieclip, whit above frames in its time line, well! to playing any animation (for particular direction) you have to call mc.gotoAndPlay("walk_S"); then it will be played automatically, if you need lower frame rate, only select each frame by mouse pointer and then press [F5] in time line to insert a blank frame gape between keyframes.
as i said before, you must use a callback script at the end frame of the each loop animation like walk_s walk_ne ...
also idle animations must be called like it: mc.gotoAndStop("idle_s");
I have a flash movie with a interactive game in the middle. The game is a simple drag and drop with a target.
Now to my problem:
When the user plays the game the drag and drop symbols stays in the target spot on the next frame to the end of the movie.
I would like them to disappear after the game is over.
I am a noobie to actionscript 3.0 - is the a code i can implement on the frames after the game to make sure that the objects wont showup.
Thanks..
Frame navigation does not affect objects that were created by code (or even objects that were created by frames but modified by code). So you need to manually remove them via removeChild().
I have 3 mc_MovieClips.
Each clip is on a different frame of the same layer in the main scene.
I do not want to use a button to control the play.
On startup, I want Clip1(On Frame1) to play, and when that is finished, Clip2(On Frame2) will play and so on.
I am a very beginner and using Flash Professional CC and actionscript 3.0. The only help I can seem to find calls for global variables, which no longer seem to exist.
I can provide more information if needed, I am just a really big beginner.
Try placing a parent.nextFrame(); on the last frame of each MovieClip and a stop(); on each frame of the parent clip (actual frames of your main scene).
I made a small game in Actionscript 3.0 and flash.
When the player wins the game or is 'game over' the player should have a option to replay the game.
So my question is: Is there a way to replay the whole movie with Actionscript? I know, i could reset the timeline back to 0, and re-instantiate all the classes, movieclips, var's ect... but i was wondering if anyone knows a easier solution.
Simply do this:
import flash.net.*;
//...
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(stage.loaderInfo.url), "_level0");
You can remove the swfObject and add it again. Look here. This is the swfObject reference.
Reload the page, where you've embedded the swf into, may be the easiest way.
The programmers way would be to encapsulate your whole application into a single class (extending Sprite or MovieClip) which will be attached to the stage. For restarting the game you could simply remove that instance from the stage and add a newly created onto the stage.
Or make a loader swf, that loads your game. Then if the game should be restarted, discard (unload) the instance and load it again.
Its hard to tell you what you can do, if we don't know, how your project is structured.
I've been working on an AS3 application and it's nearing completion. At the same time, one of the designers I work with has been building a movieclip in a separate .fla that acts as an intro animation to the application. The intro uses the 3D motion tweening capabilities of Flash CS4 / Player 10, and runs fine in the .fla in which it was built.
The problem is that when I import the movieclip into the main .fla for the application, when I dynamically instantiate the movieclip and add it to the stage, I get a barrage of the following runtime error:
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property null not found on fl.motion.KeyframeBase and there is no default value.
at fl.motion::KeyframeBase/getValue()
at fl.motion::MotionBase/getValue()
at fl.motion::Animator3D/setTime3D()
at fl.motion::AnimatorBase/set time()
at fl.motion::AnimatorBase$/processCurrentFrame()
at fl.motion::AnimatorBase$/parentEnterFrameHandler()
I'm guessing just based on the number of errors like this that I receive that there's one per keyframe in the tweening movieclip. I've checked to ensure that the Flash publish settings are identical across the two .fla files, and although the stage sizes differ slightly, I don't think that's the issue here. I've also googled the issue and found nothing but but this lonely thread on kirupa.
Any thoughts?
Okay--turns out the problem was that we had a local version of the fl.motion package in the Actionscript source paths that was out of date. Now everything's tweening along happily!
As far as I know you once you apply a 3D Motion Tween to a clip, you can no longer modify it by actionscript.
I'd suggest either copying the clip, without the tween, so you can access and modify it via actionscript, as for the animation, maybe go for Copy Motion as Actionscript 3.0. It will spit out a nasty looking bulk of code. The alternative is to 'redo' the animation using something like TweenLite which has nicer syntax. You would select the motion tween, give it an instance then use instance.motion.keyframes to loop through the keyframes and get the position and rotation values for example.
It's not as ideal as it should be :(
Have a look at the flashthusiast.com website for more insights on the new tweens and how to work with them.
Goodluck,
George