I've grouped a multiple layer 1 frame actionscript driven animation into a symbol. (simply put, imagine a 1 frame image being tweened by code over a few sec, in this symbol)
Now I'd like to play the contents of this symbol using an event listener.
But
stuff_mc.gotoAndPlay(1); and Test Movie doesn't play a thing (doesn't even show the contents of the symbol (the picture) which can actually be seen on stage).
If I go inside the stuff_mc and Test Scene, it works perfectly..
So how do I play stuff_mc from the stage?
Thanks in advance
It sounds to me like you are using multiple scenes. If that's the case then this is most likely where your problem is. Scenes are generally a bad idea in Flash – Adobe itself admits this.
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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");
as you may have noticed just by reading the title it is quite hard to summarize the problem,
which is probably why I couldn't find a solution anywhere.
I am currently working on a flash game using adobe flash pro CC.
I started by creating the first level of my sidescrolling game and got everything to work just as I wanted it to. All my work was on a single frame (frame 1) and on a single layer and it worked fine.
However, when I then went on to move the frame a little further back and added frames in front of it for the menu I encountered a problem.
When I "gotoAndStop" to the frame with my game content on it, everything works except the collision between my character and my objects. My character is now sunk into the "floor object" about have his size, while when i move the frame back to "frame 1" everything works fine again.
I am losing my mind over this. Please help me :(
in flash when you start changing a dynamic property such as x or y, that object will be independent from the keyframe where it originally was ~forever~, even if you go back to the original keyframe. therefore if you start some enterframe and change the playhead afterwards you will get some awkward (but expected) behaviour.
ideally, jump to the game keyframe and just then call whatever methods needed to start the game.
I've gathered all game pages on different frames of movieclip called game. in that game movieclip there are 4 different frames. on third frame I have some drag & drop functionality. When I drag one item, I want it to be on the front, I mean all other objects on that frame must not block the view of current dragging object. I used this.setChildIndex(currentDraggingObject,this.numChildren-1); but the problem is whenever I drag objects, when I change the frame, those objects are shown on that frames as well.
In short description: When I set an object's Index in MovieClip(game) , that object is seen in each frame of MovieClip(game) , how can I fix this?
I've searched the result online but couldn't find a solution.
Thank you
-Ozan
Instead of this:
this.setChildIndex(currentDraggingObject,this.numChildren-1);
You can simply use this:
this.addChild(currentDraggingObject); //shorter and clearer
If you have some object on a frame and you actually add it again, it indeed stays there in the other frames (I found this out too). The best/fastest solution would be to simple remove them before you are going to change the frame with this.removeChild(object)
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.
I am working with Flash CS5, and haven't been using Flash since the age of AS2.
I have a movieclip symbol in which I have an Actions layer, in which I have a keyframe in frame 1 and one in frame 20. Each of these should have a stop(); action assigned, but when i select the one in frame 20 and start writing, the little "a" appears on frame 1 of another layer. When I make a keyframe in frame 20 of that layer and try to assign actions it yields the same result. They appear on frame 1.
Is this a bug or am I missing some vital information about AS3?
AS3 is in fact more picky (for good reason) about how the code is implemented.
You need to select the keyframe you are intending to put code into, and then use your actions window. And as Markus commented, make sure you're using keyframes, and not empty frames. If you try to write code into an empty frame, it will default it to the most recent keyframe.
Furthermore, If you have multiple layers and say, your code is on layer2 and your objects on layer1, if you have keyframes on layer1, and intend to enter code at frame 20, but your layer selection is layer2, it will yield the same result described above. You'll have to make sure the correct layer is active. The actions window will only display the code from the current layer's most recent keyframe.
Hope that clears some things up!