A shimmer and loading

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Hey there guys…

I have been having trouble doing a shimmer effect one a piece of text. I have tried to accomplish it several times but i get a completely different effect… and im always like…

“what the… ???”

lol…

And problem number 2 is…
a loading bar of some sort. It doesnt neccessarily have to be a complex loading bar. Even if it just says “loading…please wait” that would be fine. But if its possible to have a small “bar” with the “%” with it thats still not too complex… that would be even better.

So if anyone could help me out… that would be much appreciative…
:slight_smile:

Im using flash 5 by the way…

ta…
Jakatta*

:tie: <— I didnt do anything… evil grin

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  1. Shimmering effect? I don’t understand. Can you show an example link?

  2. http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm

I wrote that tutorial for MX, but did my best to make it compatible with Flash 5 as well. I have been told that all the code works in Flash 5 as well, so if you want, give it a try.

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i dont actually know any sites off the top of my head… :frowning:

but i’ll explain it…

Lets day you have a peace of text that says “jakatta”… i wanna know how make a shimmer as if light was reflecting of it from left to right… it involves masking, but im not sure how to do it.

does that help?

Jakatta

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SORRY… god i just read my last post and my grammer was terrible.

let me re-write it:
Say you have a peice of text that says “jakatta”, what i want to know is how to make a “light” or an “reflection of light” shimmer from left to right. I know masking is involved… but im just not sure how to come around to accomplishing it.

Jak

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You mean the Ray of Light???

If so, that is an extensive process, but our very own david wrote a tutorial on it…

Tutorial here…

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/rayoflight.htm

Similar effect can be found here…

http://www.rayoflight.net/

Just click on the sections and wait for the animation to play then when the title plays it will have the ray of light effect on the first letter (advanced ray of light effect).

And please… this guy is an expert at motion/shape tweens and frame by frame animation, so even though his flash animations are amazing, they are certainly not easy, so don’t expect to be doing things like that right off the bat…lol.

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no no no…
i dont want a ray of light.

ok, this is the closest thing i can find in regards of what im looking for.
go here:
http://www.highersourcemusic.com/index2_withintro.htm

now there will be intro… that goes for 10 seconds and then the page loads. once the page loads… there will be a sequence of images moving across at the top of the page. Now keep an eye out for the logo (which is 3 egg like balls in a shape of a triangle) it will have a shimmer in one of the sequences…

if u still have some confusion…
go to my website:
http://www.techfusion.com.au/room908/

At the front page u will see my symbol that shimmers on and off the screen. (its of circles)… no imagine that THAT image is visible at all times… but the oppisite effect… shimmers on the inside.

get me??

Jak…

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Is this what you mean??? (check attachment)

Also… I don’t mean to be rude, but your layout seems to be an exact copy/rip off of Higher Sources :-\

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Crap… just realizing you use Flash 5 and I use Flash MX you will not be able to open my file.

Basically was I did was this…

I created my text.
Then I broke it apart (select the textbox and hit CTRL+B)
Then I clicked on the keyframe in the timeline and I pressed F6 (my shortcut for Insert Keyframe you could also right click on the next frame and choose Insert Keyframe) about 15 times.

Then on frames 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 I turned the color of my text to white and frames 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 were left black.

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Exact rip off?
If you look carefully you’ll notice that the only thing that is the same is the way the buttons are layed out… other than that… they have a continueous animation, more info, different background settings…

Yes i got the idea from that site but i didnt wanna make a replicant. Sorry… i did get kinda offended… but i dont blame you, i can understand why you thought that though. Im actually building a new site at the moment, completely originally… so all good. smiles as a matter of fact i think its going to be much better than the one i have now. :slight_smile:

About your description…
i know the effect your talking about… but its not it.
im sorry… your probably thinking im wasting your time. I’ll tell you what. i’ll have a good look through the web until i find what i want, then send it here.

Thanks for all your help…
Sorry for the inconvenience…

Jakatta**

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you mean similar to my footer if you rollover it?
if so, there’s a tut on kirupa somewhere

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http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/lightingmask.htm
in case that is the one you’re looking for. I’m going to bed.

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Are you talking about the “standy” sequence that is used on 2advanced?

I would like to know how that is done too.

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YES just your footer… but i did the tut in kirupa… i did exactly that but i got a different effect :frowning:

thats cool… i done the loading fine though :slight_smile:

but i have a prob… im building this site right

(ignore the full screen, im resizing it smaller)… but when u roll over “1” button see how that shape is lit up ?.. well i want it to light up right over the “1”… like a button. but i dont know how to?

the 1 is a button… and the other is a graphic.

But when i place the graphic over the “1” button… it wont work?

what the…?

Do u know how to resolve this problem?

Jakatta***

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Hey Jakatta,
I see you got plenty of help with the shimmer but did you manage to figure out the loading bar.

I’ve attatched a zip file for you with the specifications that you asked for i.e a small “bar” with the “%”.

It also acts as a tutorial as each section of the preloading sequence is explained inside of the fla.

I hope this is of help.
By the way I think that brings me up to 98 posts…100 coming up:bandit:

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Hey chris…
Yeah your file didnt open hey, im using flash 5… whats version of flash are u using?

Jakatta***

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Hi,
i’m also using flash 5 so I will look into why you can’t open this.:bandit:

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Hi again,
Well I’ve looked at the movie and I can’t see any reason why you shouldn’t be able to open it. I have resaved it as another name.:bandit:

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*Originally posted by chris *
**Hi,
i’m also using flash 5 so I will look into why you can’t open this.:bandit: **

If you are on a mac, you have to .zip the .fla file. Otherwise it will give an “Unexpected File Error” or something. Its a weird bug, and I don’t think it can be fixed.

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Hey Chris,
Yeah it opened this time… thanks heaps hey! But now theres another problem, lol… When i wanna see the actions in the frames, the action box opens up but there’s no actions, it hides them from me :(… So i dont know the actions from frame 1 onwards…

:frowning:

****, and i got excited too…
lol

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Hi Jakatta,
Okay heres the frame actions in the order you’ve got them

frame 01:
percent_loaded = 1;
total_frames = 64;
value = 13;
LOADED_FRAME = 3;

frame 02:
if (Number(percent_loaded)>=100) {
gotoAndPlay (5);
}

frame 03:
ifFrameLoaded (LOADED_FRAME) {
percent_loaded = int((LOADED_FRAME100)/total_frames);
LOADED_FRAME = Number(LOADED_FRAME)+1;
setProperty ("/BAR", _xscale, percent_loadedvalue);
}

frame 04:
gotoAndPlay (2);

frame 05:
stop ();

and frame 07:
stop ();