I am a beginner with AS3 and I'm having a problem with MovieClip class.
I have a character that move through a simple script that handles collision, sound etc. Everything was working seemlessly so far but when I started adding animation, the character would stop at the end of the animation cycle.
Does someone comfortable with AS3 knows what's wrong here ?
Thanks in advance =)
Inside the Flash IDE, try clicking the instance of your character that's not looping the way you want it to (and this should be from outside the animation itself; from the container of your character), then look inside the Properties tab/window. Near the bottom, there will be a LOOPING header, and inside there you can modify the behaviour.
In case you have any problems with this, or otherwise want to have more control over the animation playhead, you can include script in the form of e.g. gotoAndPlay(1); which you might add at the last frame of your animation cycle to tell Flash to play from the start again. The frame number parameter doesn't have to be 1 of course. You could for example set up a series of animation sequences on a single timeline, and use gotoAndPlay() to have them loop internally, until an event occurs and you direct the playhead to another animation loop inside the same MovieClip.
Usually when play(); is called, an animation is being repeated all the time.
You should seek in your code for stop(); that essentially makes an animation stop, and remove it.
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My employer decided they wanted me to start doing animation with Adobe's new "Animate CC" application. My issue is that I don't know how to loop my animation outside of the Adobe Animate environment. I am new to Adobe Animate CC and ActionScript, unfortunately, so I will probably need a relatively basic answer to understand why my solution isn't working. From what I can tell, my ActionScript code is being ignored by the IDE completely.
In the IDE and in the browser test command, the animation plays beyond frame 100, to the end, and then flashes a frame of white before repeating. I need it to loop without this white frame interrupting the screen, whether that be through a loop or some other means that I'm just not aware of.
For context: my project has about 100 layers of content and I'm unfamiliar with how this program works. I've thoroughly searched the web for tutorials on how to do what I need to do, but I've come up empty handed.
I have an actions layer among my motion tweens and other layers
https://gyazo.com/6e0b8502d98b6c9903bb96ac3a939bae
I've been trying to use gotoAndPlay(0) at frame 100 to start the animation over from the beginning.
https://gyazo.com/704ee7158bae6dfd149b6283cfa33451
Basically, how do I use Action-Script in Adobe Animate CC in order to infinitely loop my animation until closed?
Thanks everyone.
Your flicker may be a result of having an extra blank keyframe on one of your layers.
Assuming that you don't have any additional scripts to stop your animation (e.g. stop()), the Timeline should loop automatically whether your animation is inside a MovieClip or on the main Timeline. You shouldn't have to put any script on your timeline or in a separate AS file to make an animation loop. I would suggest this method.
Additionally, although you have the code specifying that you want it to go the first frame, it will ignore your call because the timeline is still playing and therefore the priority. One way you can combat this is by adding a stop(); function and a delay timer that contains your gotoAndPlay(0) function. This will take focus away from playing the Timeline and will allow you to execute your script. I wouldn't suggest this method because it seems a bit redundant.
However, if you're curious one way that you could approach this is shown below, simply add this script to the frame you want the animation to restart at.
//Stop the Timeline
stop();
//Create a delay timer for 5 miliseconds that is executed once
var timer:Timer = new Timer(5,1);
//Add an event listener that calls once the timer is complete
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, timerHandler);
//Start the timer
timer.start();
//Timer handler that is called once the delay timer is complete
function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent){
//Go to and play the first frame
gotoAndPlay(0);
}
Im still rather new to flash.
Im currently working on animation that I want to use to present my work with. I want to run short clip, consisting of 180 frames, that continually loops while I talk. Then when I press left key on the keyboard, the animation must continue.
I can get to loop the clip, using gotoAndPlay, but as soon as add the addEventListener. The I tried to incorporate a Boolean value, but that fails as well. Any help/suggestion would be greatly appreciated
Should be as simple as creating a new symbol that will contain your animation of 180+ frames. Inside this symbol/movieclip you can add code on frames which you need to loop (F9). So on frame 180 you'd write gotoAndPlay(1);. And when you need to continue from the parent call clip.gotoAndPlay(181);
I know this question has been asked before but as a noob i did not understand the answer so im hoping someone can explain a little more for me.
I have an arrow animated along a path using a motion tween I want when a button is clicked for an endless stream of arrows to follow the path, this would be easy if you could put more than one object on a motion tween but you cant? Can anyone help with the code id need to make this happen.
Is there a way to repeat the movieclip again before its finished to give this effect?
Do you have any code, or example of exactly what you're trying to accomplish?
You can use multiple instances of the same movie clip... So (for the sake of explanation) you could animate your arrow once, make sure it's its own movieClip, put it on the stage, and test your movie...It will loop over and over. You can drag as many instances of this movie on to the stage and they will all play, over and over until it's told to stop.
If you need ALL of the arrows to be one movie clip, as to be one addressable object, you can simply select all of your positioned arrows, and convert those into one movieClip (right click, convert to Symbol)
Of course all of this can be controlled precisely through code, but need to know a bit more about what you're trying to do. hope this helps a little...
The function play() will loop your movie forever, unless you have a stop() function somewhere.
yourMovie.play();
If you want to "repeat" / "reset" a MovieClip at any time, use gotoAndPlay() :
yourMovie.gotoAndPlay(1);
If you want to verify if you are at the end of your clip, use the properties currentFrame and totalFrames :
if (yourMovie.currentFrame == yourMovie.totalFrames)
{
// ex. if you want to stop
yourMovie.stop();
}
Ref : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/MovieClip.html
Hope that help. Be more specific, if it doesn't answer your question.
I'm making a multi-part introductory animation for a game. It works when I preview in Flash, but not when I export using the CreateJS toolkit to get HTML5 output.
On my scene's timeline, I have this.stop(); on the first frame, as well as a movie clip that contains several seconds of animation (and which may have to change in length as we develop).
My second frame is labeled "sc2" and I would like the animation to pick up there when the first movieclip is finished. To accomplish this, I went into the first movie clip and put this on the last frame:
_parent.gotoAndPlay("sc2");
This works fine in Flash, but perhaps I can't use the _parent object in JS? Is there an alternative way to access the flow of control or another way to accomplish this? My goal is to avoid doing animation on the main timeline and to control the flow by scripting there so that if the length of the individual sections of animation changes, I don't have to change the start and end frames of the various sections in several places.
How to stop the next tween action to start until the previous tween completes playing in as3.0?
and also i want to stop the tween to happen on the same object twice.
Basically i have a container (movie-clip) in which there are n number of movie-clips (arranged as bricks). When i click on the container the target (brick) will disappear (made scaleX and alpha to 'o'). also i am tracking how many bricks are closed.
But the problem is if i do a fast double click the tween seems to happen twice. and the count also seems to increase for the same brick. how to solve this problem.
Tween after Tween
Use an event handler to wait for the first tween to complete, Something like
myTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, onFinish);
function onFinish(e:TweenEvent):void {
... // Call the next tween here
}
Double click problem,
Remove the event listener for the button click as soon as it is clicked, Something like:
my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
function onClick(e:MouseEvent){
my_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
myTween.start();
}
You could use Tweener and use
isTweening() or autoOverwrite = false to get around this.
I haven't used those properties/functions in a while but I'm sure something in Tweener can do this easily.
Any reason you are using Tweener. Greensock's Tweenmax/lite package is seemingly the industry standard these days.
The problem you seem to be having is that you are initiating the tween multiple times. If all the blocks need to shrink simultaneously, i would probably use a for loop and run a tween on each of them.
The thing you have to make sure though is once its clicked to remove the click event handler until its complete so it won't be clicked again.
I also would recommend using TweenMax/Lite because it has something called TimelineMax/Lite where you can compound a bunch of tween be it simultaneous or staggered and listen for one COMPLETE event on that Timeline object. When that event fires you can reactivate the clicks or do whatever it is you need to do after the animation is complete.
TimelineMax has some nice features as well like reverse and timeScale.
would you be able to paste some code? that would also help us help you.