Help with loops

programming flash
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Hey everyone, i’m a Kirupa virgin so please handle gently!

I have a question and to be honest my Flash Actionscript skills are minimal, but my brain tells me that there must be away to do what i wanna do…please read on!

I have made a small animation in Max 5.1. I have restricted this to 10 frames as Swift 3d swf files are somewhat large.

I have imported my Swift swf into MX.

The big question is, can I set up something like a For/Next loop(basic, yup!) to slow down the rate of the frames in Flash.

i.e. Play frame 1 of Movie ‘x’…add somekind of loop to delay time before moving to frame 2 of Movie ‘x’…

This is my way of a workaround to keep file sizes small.

Maybe someone here knows another way of doing this

Maybe i’m going about this the hard way, which for me wouldn’t be a first!..

Thank you in advance.

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You can use setInterval to do that
[AS]
Function moveFrames(){
gotoAndStop(_currentframe+1);
}
setInterval (moveFrames, 5000);
[/AS]

I think this will work (emphasis on think). Don’t have flash to test it now.

Either that or just slow the movie down to 1 fps

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Ok I switched computers and I don’t think that code will work :frowning: sorry about that. I know you can use setInterval to do it, I just don’t know how. Search the forums there are tons of questions like this.

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Hey grandsp5

Thanks for your swift reply mate.

There has to be someway to do this i’m sure and your right, i will do some more researching into this…

Somebody mentioned the ‘While’ statement…God knows what this does but someone here might!

Argggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!

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can you post your fla or email it to me and I will see what I can do.

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Hey,

File attached…This is just a test fla of a 3d box in 10 frames.

It’s 1.5kb which is great…

Just need to slow down the frame rate independant to the main Timeline

thanks

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Can you post the fla? I need that not the swf

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Execuse me, Have you tried to change frame rate this way :
Modify>>Document (ctrl+j) and there change frame rate from usual 12 to anything…

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Sorry!

here goes…

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Rewko

er, yeah, but that changes the Frame rate of the whole movie not the individual Movie Clips within…

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Well unless I learn setInterval in the next 5 minutes (which is possible but unlikely because I am disassembling an optical platform right now), I would say just spread out the frames inside your movie clip. Try asking one of the mods who knows setInterval.

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Ok well I did learn setInterval :slight_smile: Give me a few minutes

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Here

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Well what can i say…
Knew it was possible…

You da man!

Thanks matey

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PS:I did try the stretching out the frames and that works as well, although how this reflects on the overall file size i don’t know!

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It shouldnt change it much. Its more keyframes that changes the file size. :slight_smile: glad to help

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Thanks again…

And a good first post me thinks!!!

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