# Help with getting animation to stop in other scenes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-getting-animation-to-stop-in-other-scenes/275691>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 17, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-getting-animation-to-stop-in-other-scenes/275691 "2008-11-17T17:34:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![vonatah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@vonatah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vonatah)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-getting-animation-to-stop-in-other-scenes/275691/1 "2008-11-17T17:34:53Z")

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I am using Flash CS3. I’m new at actionscripting and am not quite sure I understand it completely. I have a movie that has a few (2-4) scenes in it. Each scene is like its own “commercial” I created a holiday movie that has snowflakes falling using an online tutorial. The movie works fine by itself, but when I load it as a scene in the movie that has my “commercials”, the snowflakes continue to fall throughout the rest of the scenes. The holiday movie has a movie clip that has a snowflake falling straight down. The actionscripting duplicates the movie clip randomly as well as its opacity, postition, etc. I understand what I did during the tutorial, but I’m not sure how to get the snowflakes to stop falling throughout the rest of the scenes. I’ve tried entering a stop after the script but it just seems to stop the scene there without continuing to rotate through the rest of them. I don’t quite understand where to tell it to stop. Somewhere else on the actions timeline? In the movie clip itself? Here is the actionscript code I’m using:

this.createEmptyMovieClip(“canvas\_mc”,10);  
var i = 0;  
myInterval = setInterval(addFlake,500);  
function addFlake() {  
if (i\<20) {  
var t:MovieClip = canvas\_mc.attachMovie(“snowflake”,“flake”+i,canvas\_mc.getNextHighestDepth());  
i++;  
t.\_xscale = t.\_yscale = Math.random()\*80+20;  
t.\_x = Math.random()\*Stage.width;  
t.\_y = -50;  
t.\_alpha = Math.random()\*40+50;  
}  
}

I hope I’ve provided enough info. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!!!