Check it out: http://forward1.com/nasa/mplane/
the buttons load movies into this interface. The first two are the culprits(introduction, Why Mars?).
Inside the movies there’s code to load up a bunch of MP3’s. I’m using a pre-loader to get everything loaded before I start any of the sound objects. But sometimes the first MP3 file doesn’t start to play. Also my text variables aren’t always loaded. Here’s the code on my first frame:
stop();
//background sound
bgloop = new Sound();
bgloop.loadSound("2/bgloop.mp3");
//create an array of mp3's to load
mp3s = ['2-1.mp3', '2-2.mp3', '2-3.mp3', '2-4.mp3', '2-5.mp3', '2-6.mp3', '2-7.mp3'];
//create a sound object for each movie clip
for (i=0; i<mp3s.length; i++) {
_root["narr"+i] = new Sound();
_root["narr"+i].loadSound("2/"+mp3s*);
}
//load up the external text file
theText = new LoadVars();
theText.load("text/2.txt");
function loader() {
bytes_loaded = Math.round(getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
loadText = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
clearInterval(checkLoadProgress);
}
}
checkLoadProgress = setInterval(loader, 50);
theText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success == true) {
_root.ccText = theText[segment];
}
};
function updateText(segment) {
_root.ccText = theText[segment];
}
On my second frame I have:
stop();
bgloop.setVolume(30);
bgloop.start(0,99);
_root.narr0.start(0,1);
updateText("one");
It seems to work allright for movie 3, but 1 and 2 are playing before everything is loaded (I think). What is this? I’m thinking the preloader isn’t working quite right. Any ideas?
