Oh man, I hate sites that place the main interface in a pop up! There’s just no need for it, and just makes my desktop really cluttered! At any rate, as soon as I find the .fla file that I used to make the skewed scroler, I will upload it here and hopefully some of you kind souls will help me disect it.
Also, I added a “Loading Text” animation while the .txt files are loading into the textboxes. I just hated it when it would go blank because it was taking its dear sweet time to load…
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What a terrific site, there sure are a lot of talented people that build websites in this forum.
Hopefully it is not too late for me!!!
i love the navigatoin. Very impressed. Easy and enjoyable to go where im going. Just hope u dont need to clutter the belt with more content in the future! I bow down to you.
Thanks everyone for their feedback! FlashFish: I don’t think anymore sections on the conveyor belt itself will be added, but new artwork will be added to the portfolios sections - if it get’s too much, I will likely stick everything in an archive and just display the latest works. But since I’m slow as molasses, that area won’t grow too much most likely.
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I managed to fix the nasty side scroller snag. Now for some reason, the loading text animation won’t show up!! As old problems are solved, new ones seem to be cropping up…
Rennygirl,
I really liked your site. It was fresh and well done. the download wasn’t bad at all with a 56K here. The inside was just refreshingly different. Very nice!
Phil
BTW, I have to ask you, is your body really that tiny? Or is it a morphed image?
I mean, if it’s that tiny, I am not trying to make you pheel bad or anything or self conscience, but I am curious, ya know?
Hehe, yes, I am actually 60 pixels tall. =P
It’s a roughly photoshopped body… there’s a story about it and you can read it here: My Date with Rengirl
I really like that site. I was wondering : how did you design it ? Flash all the way down or did you mix pleasures ?? Anyway, that point of view, slightly from above (3 quarters in French, no idea how to say that in English) is a great idea. And that little rolling carpet (???) is definitely the most intriguing thing.
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Aside from the imported jpegs done in Photoshop, it’s all flash baby! I really have no knowledge in director or any 3d programs to mix in with it. Actually I tried rendering some 3d images in 3D Studio Max, but that just didn’t work out well.
is sound missing from your site or am i deaf 
btw, the text you (want) to load never showed up…Sometimes loading info from a txt file lags…for some reason.
There is no sound Paranoid - I’m not a fan of sound coming from websites since it disturbs the current tunes to which I am jamming to. Plus, I didn’t want to add to the already enormous download.
Yes, I am actually having problems with the text thing (you’ll see above that I posted it). The text took a while to load so I added a “Loading Text” anim (to check if the text variables are empty), but it won’t show up for some reason. I have been trying to fix it, on and off, or weeks!
with your metaphor (machinery, conveyer belt etc) you’d be remiss not to add sound i’m afraid. For me, sound is one of the things that FLASH exemplefies in the new media–creative use of sound.
would’nt you say that one noticing the lack of sound draws attention to the fact that it may be worthwhile to add it to your site?
I think forgetting sound in flash is akin to using straight bitmap grapics…it defeats the purpose.
It depends. Music?, I’d leave that out in almost any site that I made, but sound effects… yeah, I’d say that they would improve the site.
But quite a handful of people have told me or responded to a site check thread that they liked that I didn’t a) have a pop-up for my interface and/or b) used sound. But you are right: maybe a “doing” when a button is pressed or “ting” when content is loaded or “buzz” when the conveyor belt rolls would be effective. I do want to fully utilize flash’s capabilities after all. I’ll look into it as soon as I fix this loading text thing.
using a program such as Soundforge, and export correctly, sounds will barely make an impact. As always you can use shared libraries, in a separate file, downloaded after the main content appears, and link sounds from there. All the best sites in flash do use sound though
Neato! I actually visited this site maybe a month or so ago. I think it was a link from avocado-something or other.com.
That was before I found kirupa’s site actually. Small digital world; I didn’t know that was you.
I like the style of the main site. I feel like I am inside iconfactory.
Great stuff, Renni!
Now if only I could find a girlfriend in Houston that did Flash. Heck, I’d be happy with a girlfriend that even knew what Flash was. 
t2d
Stop daydreaming, t2d…
RenniGi, will you tell me some day how you did that rolling carpet thing ???
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I could tell you right now!
The carpet (or conveyor belt) isn’t actually rolling, but the little dashes move along to make it look like it’s rolling. That’s accomplished with a simple motion tween with a guide so that it hugs the belt’s surface. Add a couple of rolling wheels and the effect is accomplished!
And ofcourse, the thing rolls on command using the “tellTarget” function.
Ok, so please go to this post :
pub40.ezboard.com/fkirupa…=444.topic
I explain my problem a little bit better…
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Thanks for quoting me in your site !!
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I have to get that * conveyor belt* (* rolling carpet* sounds better) to work !! This is making me crazysensei !!
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