Hi,
I'm not sure how far into detail we are going to have to go here, but
I'm willing to work with you on this.
What you are looking for is the Movie Clip object. Your main "stage"
(the base movie is normally referred to as the main stage) will
probably be blank. The other things going on are going to be Movie
Clip objects.
What it sounds like you are trying to do has been able to be done
since Version 4, so there are several step by step instructions for
doing this. I'm going give you some links to some tutorials here in a
minute, but will also help explain them if you are still having some
trouble with those examples.
You can do this through the interface, or using ActionScript. From the
wording of your question, ActionScript may be more confusing than
necessary, unless you have done some programming in another language.
Personally I got the ActionScript methods far sooner than I got the
interface methods.
So, we want a curtain to pull back and a small puppet show to happen,
until the user enters the site by clicking a button, and then the
curtain will drop again and the site will open.
Once you get the Movie Clip object down, several cool things open up
for you. The first hint is that with most cool Flash programs the main
stage will have nothing permanent on it. If you keep that in mind and
build everything as instances of Movie clips, the idea of what needs
to be done starts sinking in.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/fire.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm
Those three tutorials, deal with movie clips. If you can get those
three down and understand what is going on, or even just get to the
point where you can re-create them yourself, then your curtain project
is going to be very simple for you.
Now I understand that you might have some specific areas that you
don't quite get the meaning of, and as I said I'm willing to help you
smooth over those spots once you get into these three tutorials. Once
you get to Dexter, in the third tutorial, you'll have it all down
smooth.
Your project, just from the small description you gave is going to
have
1) a blank stage
2) two movie clips, one for each curtain, if those are being pulled to
the side, or one curtain movie clip if it goes up.
3) a button object, saying enter. This button will be inside another
movie clip.
4) the display movie clip, which will do (I don't know what that does,
but if you explain a little about it, maybe I can give you a fast
inventory) We'll call this one the dance.
I'm only listing this so you will have it in your head while you are
doing those three tutorials. So, start there and let me know, using
the Request Clarification button, what you don't understand and I'll
try to explain it further. They are good tutorials though, so I don't
expect you will need much help.
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Clarification of Answer by
webadept-ga
on
07 Jun 2003 10:26 PDT
Hi again,
Well, as I said, this is a matter of Movie Clips. If you go through
the third lesson I linked to above, the one with Dexter, you will find
your answer. Pay attention to the part about Dexter's eyes. They blink
at regular intervals, but are on a seperate time than say his mouth or
arms. Watch Dexter for a while and you will see that the blinking
happens seperate from everything else.
In the example banner you linked to, in order to create this, I would
have 4 movie clips.
The top menu, bottom menu, the TCT logo and the rotating images in the
back ground.
The TCT logo Movie Clip, would come on stage at the start, use a
motion twain to get where it is going (inside the movie clip timeline,
not in the main stage timeline) and use the stop(); command to place
it there without looping.
The background pictures would be setup on a looping Movie Clip. All
this means is that there isn't a stop(); funtion set at the end of
this Movie Clip's timeline.
When you place a Movie Clip on the stage, it will continue to play
until it is told to stop();, or, you move past the point this Movie
clip exists.
Dexter's main stage has only one frame of timeline. His whole body is
made of seperate movie clips which make up his arms, eyes, mouth and
body. Each moving, or not moving as the case may be, according to
their particular programming.
As a small experiement with Dexter, open up that movie fla file, the
one they let you download.
First Double Click on Dexter to open up his top movie clips. This will
show the several layers of Dexter labeled Head, R Arm, Body, Legs, L
Arm.
Move the timeline marker out to frame 35, where the Head movie clips
is shown. You will see the blue box show up around the head. Double
click on the head to open up the movie clip layer there.
Now we see the eye movie clip in a blue rectangle.. double click on
the eyes.
Now move out to frame 50 for the eye movie clip. ( the last frame)
Here we are going to stop the eyes from blinking, after they blink the
first time, but we are going to let the rest of Dexter move as he
normally would.
Right click on frame 50 and choose Actions.
type in : stop();
or choose it off the menu.
now, press Ctrl-Enter, and see that Dexter's eyes will blink once, but
then remain open from that point on, but each of his other parts
continue to move as they did originally.
This is the same thing you will do with any movie clip you wish to
show up, do something, then remain where it is.
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