Making an avatar maker in CS3

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Hi,

I’m wanting to make an avatar style character designer something like this: http://www.messdudes.com/buddy-icon-dude.html

i’ve been looking for a tutorial but haven’t been able to find anything so far, has anyone seen one?

Or has anyone made one of these ? I wouldn’t need it to be animated.

I can draw all the bits in flash but i have no idea how the script would work so that once you chose something like a hat or eyes it would stay there ready for the next choice to be made.

And help or advice would be amazing!

thank you, kira:stare:

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I had this advice below:

"say you have a blank head and a movieclip which holds a graphic of hair that you have dragged onto the head. You would go inside the hair clip which is already sitting on the head, put a stop(); command on frame1 then make a new keyframe on frame2 and draw/place a different hair cut. You would do that as many times as you need so say you have 10 haircuts in the hair movieclip.

Now select the hair movieclip on the main stage and on the properties bar give it an instance name of ‘hairMc’.

as in your example, you would copy each hairstyle from hairMc and put them on your main stage and make each a separate movieclip. Give each haircut movieclip a unique instance name (say ‘hair1’)

on the timeline add code for each haircut movieclip:

hair1.onRelease = function(){
hairMc.gotoAndStop(1);
}

hiar2.onRelease = function(){
hairMc.gotoAndStop(2);
}

so now when people click one of the hair styles on your stage it will tell hairMc on your head graphic to go to the frame with that hairstyle."

…so I did it but now im wondering how to keep one choice in place when i move to the next choice - e.g. how do i keep the hair when i move to the lips frame and so on?

I attached my flash file so if you do have time please have a look!

Thank you very much,

Kira