My scene has a tween animated symbol which is just some text. I added drag/drop functionality to the symbol via code snippets, which works finei.
However when a drag operation begins the animation of the symbol stops and never resumes.
Anyway at all to fix this?
If not then is it possible at all to have any sort of animated anything still animate while dragging? Ie. Animated GIF, sequence of images, .avi file etc etc
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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 wonder if there is a way to prevent a browser from actually animating an animated gif, loaded in a <img> tag.
I just want it to display the first frame of the gif and don't play the animation.
I already fear that this isn't possible and I have to extract the first frame and render it to a canvas.
This is kinda an expensive solution, but if you reset image SRC on a very short setInterval it appears as static e.g:
setInterval(function() {
document.getElementById('img1').src = document.getElementById('img1').src
},1)
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/MEaWP/6/
Maybe this is too simple an answer for you but you could just open the animated GIF in a image editing program of your choice, i.e. Adobe Photoshop or any other free one, and then just save out the GIF without the animation.
Then re-upload the new GIF (without the animation) to wherever you are serving your images from.
If you do use Photoshop you can simply open the file.GIF and go to Window>Animation in the Menu. This will display all the frames in the animated GIF in a new dialog box.
Just delete all the frames and Save As. Just don't overwrite the original with the animation if you will still need that later.
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 do i get my UILoader to play a .swf file once then disappear until called upon again?
I am creating a guitar tutorial app that shows you chords and the transitions between them. to display the chords I'm using standard Flash graphics and for the transitions i am using a UI Loader to display the .swf files for instance, on the C chord frame, the fingers are in position and the UI Loader is a layer on top of it, when the chord transition is selected from the list component it loads the chordtransition.swf.
The problem is that once the swf is loaded it plays on loop, ive added "stop();" in many different places as people suggest and it doesn't make a difference.
I would like to be able to click "C-D" on the component list then for the .swf to play once then disappear.
Any ideas??
A strategically placed stop() should work (last frame on the timeline in the swf). You'll need to stop the right movieclip - if your movie has nested clips you might be stopping the wrong clip.
However, creating multiple swf's just to show different chords looks like overkill to me.
Create clips showing all chords on the main timeline, and add frame labels to indicate where they start and put stop() at the end of every chord animation (are you using animations?).
Use movieclipWithChords.gotoAndPlay("chord_C");
If you are not using animations you can use movieclipWithChords.gotoAndStop("chord_C");
Of course you can also create labels like 'C' and 'D', and use those as a direct mapping of the chords.
Update: After reading your question again I realize you are actually showing clips of a transition from one chord to another. In that case you can still use my suggestion as above, only your labels will not be for the individual chords, but for the chord transitions e.g. 'transition_C-D' or 'transition_G-B'.
I would like to display an animated gif on canvas with some transformations applied. To test things, I'm currently just trying to display the animated gif on the canvas, so that it is essentially equal to displaying the gif as a regular <img> tag.
I'm using Chrome and webkitRequestAnimationFrame. On each request frame, I draw the image. When the gif frame changes, this should be reflected on the canvas. This works only partially:
Just watching the canvas does not make it update. Instead, one, still frame is begin drawn.
Reselecting the tab (i.e. selecting another and selecting the canvas tab again) does update it to a new frame, but after that it freezes again.
This is a fiddle I set up: http://jsfiddle.net/eGjak/93/.
How can I draw an animated gif on canvas with it actually animating?
Answer no longer valid
It looks like the behavior described here (writing an img tag referencing an animated gif to a canvas results in different frames of the gif being written if the img is part of the DOM or visible) has changed at least in Chrome. There may or may not be documentation of what is correct behavior for this. :)
Also, webkitRequestAnimationFrame no longer has the behavior of taking one additional argument, an element X such that when X is not visible, the requested function will not run. For performance and battery life reasons, you may want many of the functions that you pass to requestAnimationFrame to check for visibility before they do anything that will require drawing.
Before:
Check out a fixed version:
http://jsfiddle.net/eGjak/96/
If you add a console.log() to the function that paints the image, you'll see that it is being called. The problem seems to be that the image itself does not animate, probably because the browser does not bother to update an animated image that is not part of the DOM.
My solution was to make the animated gif part of the DOM and size 0 and it works just fine.
You can verify that the animation is being shown on the canvas and not in the image tag by loading up http://jsfiddle.net/eGjak/96/show/ and inspecting the elements with ctrl-shift-I on Windows or Linux / alt-cmd-I.
EDIT: Here's a bonus!
webkitRequestAnimationFrame takes one more argument than the Mozilla equivalent to allow your animation to only run when the element that is being animated is visible. Check out
http://jsfiddle.net/kmKZa/8/
and open up the console. You'll see that when you hide the canvas, the animation function stops being called. When you toggle the canvas visible again, the animation function will be called again.