HI everyone I’m new here.\rI would like to ask Eyezberg (aka MrFreeze)\rhow to make an FX like he has as his signature.\r(somelike, fish eye fx).\rPlease!!!
Do not ask me, this was posted by suprabeener somewhere here, might still be in the archieves…i’ll try to find it!
CAN’T GET IT TO WORK !!! THAT EFFECT IS A REAL PAIN IN THE BUTT !!!\r\r0] pom
I’m just working on some effect like the one you are talking about, and I think, I’m not that far away from succeeding. But because I haven’t succeeded yet, I tried to find an answer on my problem on the web, but didn’t. \r\rI think we have to build an own swf-file for each “menu-topic” too, but additionally I want the new file (that is going to be shown) being loaded during the outfade-time of the old movie (that was shown). That is possible by working with two different levels (apart from the level0 in which we should place the menu). One level (level1 for example) we use for fading in and showing the currently activated topic, while the other level (level2 for example) is used for the outfading topic only. \rThat way, every swf-file representing a topic and every menubutton has the same structure:\r\r On a MouseEvent like “release” on one of the menubuttons the since now visible movie (let us say it was the tomato-movie) in level1 has to move into level2. \rAnd that is my problem. I hardly tried to do it with the “swapDepth” function, but I don’t get it. I would be very thankful, if one of you can tell me how to do it. That way, I think, the movies can be handled by the ‘with(level1/2)’ or ‘tellTarget’ functions.\r\rApart from that, everything is fine. In the moviefiles there are four parts. \r\rThe first part (the first frame) is used to stop the movie until \ra. the third part is already loaded\rb. the movie in level2 is already faded out\r\rThe second part fades in the contents of the chosen topic. \r\rThe third part stops the movie. And the fourth fades the movie out. \r\r\rI hope you can understand my idea.\r\rBye\r\rRobosoc
Actually, I don’t think that Swapdpeth will enble you to swap levels. It just swaps level inside level0. But I’m not sure about that.\r\rI sincerely that you’ll make that thing work.\r\rpom 0]
If you are right, that should be my mistake, but how would you understand this Tutorial?\r\rAnd how do you understand the Macromedia ActionScriptDictionary Discription of ‘swapDepth’?\r\rOr have I missunderstood the word level? Is there a doublemeaning on it?\r\rgreetings\rRobosoc
“A movie clip’s depth is what determines its layer level”\rSee ? Its layer level. I think (but I’m not sure) that this functions changes level in the layers of your movie, not the _level.\rAnyway, I’ve done it with a crooked method. You can see it here :\rwww.multimania.com/ilyasl…movie.html\rThe proble is that it uses loading into level, so every time you want to access a movie, it has to load it one more time.\rAnyway, that’s a start.\rpom ]
By the way, interesting site, John.\rpom 0]
okay I’m back again :-)\rYes I like that site too. And you was right pointing on that sentence. But after read that one and then looking the Macromedia ActionScript Dictionary under ‘_level’ it totaly confused me. Look what it says (especially the last sentence):\r\r"In the Flash Player, movies are assigned a number according to the order in which they were loaded. The movie that was loaded first is loaded at the bottom level, level 0. The movie in level 0 sets the frame rate, background color, and frame size for all subsequently loaded movies. Movies are then stacked in higher numbered levels above the movie in level 0. The level where a movie clip resides is also referred to as the depth level or depth."\r\r:rolleyes: , it is getting complicated, isn’t it?\r\rgreetings\r\rRobosoc
By the way, how is it going with the effect ?\r:rolleyes: \r0] pom
just remember that swap depths is a function to control the DEPTH of a movie clip… not a level of a movie. Most of the time, even us old timers end up refering to depth, as “level” just because that’s what it seems is going on… but we shouldn’t it’s confusing.\r\rlevel, is a designation of stack order of LOADED swfs\rdepth is a designation of stack order of all flash objects on the stage.\r\rthey are really quite different.
Hi there, sorry that it took me so long to answer, but I’m studying and… blabla…I GOT IT.
I must admit, that this isn’t a very nice way, but it is a way.
Okay, remember that I wanted the menubuttons in the mainmovie, that always appears in _level0. Each topic gets an own _level (this is new) and on a mouseaction (like release) on a button the currently activated movie (for example there is one loaded in _level10) is being told to play its outfade-part. But this makes it neccessary to tell a variable, which movie is currently activated. Lets call this var “movielevel”. I’m not sure if I am to stupid, but I only get it working by setting the value of the variable like following, which makes it necessary to set this variable in every movie representing a topic itself :
_level.movielevel = _root
If you got that, the first part of the buttonaction looks like that:
with (movielevel)
{play;}
Then you only have to load the movie relating to the chosen topic (button that was released). But don’t forget to set the level, not the target 
bye
Robosoc
show us !!
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What does the command
with
do ?
Im not the profi in actionscript and all the things I know (which is not very much), I learned it by reading the ActionScriptDictionary. But because I dont know english so well, it is a litle hard and I dont get everything! As far as I understoodwith, it should be liketellTarget`. You use it to point an object, that you want to control.
Example:
If I have a movie that contains a movieclip (e.g. I named the instance of the clip “circle”) in which a circle beginns at the left of the screen running to the middle and then to the top, I could use with to start the movieclip with the circle in the middle instead of left. In the case of the circle is in the middle in the frame 20 (of the timeline of the movieclip “circle”) I would write:
with (_Level0.circle)
{ gotoandplay (20);}
Did you understand, what I was trying to explain? I hope you could <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":">
Bye
Robosoc
Strange that Flash has so many ways to do the same thing.
OK? put you still haven’t posted your swf yet…
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I was looking around actinoscripts.org and came across this file for a menu. looks simpler than the one posted here but does the same thing I have not looked at the fla yet but I am posting here for you guys as well. that is if you care for it.
www.actionscripts.org/sho…php?id=259
Good day,
Matt
hi everyone
Man i have not been online for TWO WEEKS! I felt so deprived! and I am so happy that a lotr of you guys are now discussing about my query. Thanks a lot. I have not read much but i think i will at least learn more of this stuff when i go through it later. honestly i’ve leaned quite a lot just by reading what you guys discuss here for the past two months. And I appreciate all of ya flash geniuses (even the humble amateurs --like me). Once again thanks and Boy am I glad to be back!
John
ps heya ther Pom!
Heya ther pom ??? Speaking Danish ??
pom 0]
wie get est ihmen Pom. Ich nein sprecht Danish. hahahah nasty German.
I’m French by the way. Aber ich kann ein bisschen Deutch sprechen…
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