How do I achieve this effect?

programming flash
1

I am fairly new to actionscript. I have been trying to make my preloader look much more attractive and I was wondering how to achieve this mirrored effect for the dynamic text as seen on this site http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/ . any help would be greatly appreciated. I have searched high and low but can’t find anything that touches on this. thanks again

2

just add another textfield and transform it vertical flip and add white gradient box with alpha transparency over it and then change dynamic value same as to upper textfield box

3

This is a rough answer, but you need to do something like this:

total_bytes = _root.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = _root.getBytesLoaded();
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);

As you can see, the percent_done variable will then be an integer showing how much of the swf is loaded, which you then just display in a dynamic text box.

4

You can even give it the same instance name so you dont have to change your code.

5

When I try this technice, it works fine when I duplicate the dynamic text field, but when I flip vertical it disappears.

this is the code that im using for the preloader
bytes_loaded = Math.round(this.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(this.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
this.loadBar._width = getPercent100;
this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent100)+“%”;
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
this.gotoAndPlay(3);
}

6

[AS]this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent100)+"%";[/AS]Should be [AS]this.loadText.text = Math.round(getPercent100)+"%";[/AS]

7

Hmmm… thanks for the suggestion, however when I try this method, the duplicated text field doesn’t show. Im not sure, but a friend was telling me the other day that I should put the dynamic text field into a movie clip and duplicate the movie clip. How would one go about doing that with the type of preloader im using? Thanks again for all the help.

8

did you embed the text??


n = 0;
onEnterFrame = function () {
	if (n<100) {
		n++;
		l = "loaded: "+n+"%";
	} else {
		onEnterFrame = null;
	}
};
9

wow cool greg martin changed his site. I remember before the dawn of time i always used his stuff for my desktop wallpapers. Excellant work.

10

I see that this method works, but I don’t quite understand how to use this technice with the preloader I’m using. I guess I’m still too new to this language. Thanks a lot for the example though. Any more suggestions are greatly appreciated.