Movie Clips

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Hi I was just wondering how I would go about doing this. I’m making some shape tweens that I would like to activate when a specific button is clicked.

That’s about it right there I was wondering if I should create each shape tween in a movie clip or something like that. I’m a bit of a newbie to flash so if this problem doesn’t make any sense that’s why.

Oh and one other thing I have an opening that leads directly into my navigation. Now should I put this opening into a movie clip, or would it matter. Thanks.

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If you want your button to play the shape tweens then you could do it with 2 method.

  1. place the shape tween animation inside a movie clip and give it an instance name like “myMC” and on the button apply this actionscript:

on(release) {
myMC.play();
}

Or you can try this method.
2) you can give your shape tween animation a label name like “shapetween” and apply this actionscript to the button:


on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("shapetween");
}

And about your opening, I don’t know exactly why you would need it in a movie clip. If it already works then why mess with it.

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Thanks that answered it perfectly, as for the opening I thought that putting it into a movie clip might organize things, but maybe not.

Anyway I have a second question I just remembered. I want the opening animation that becomes the Navigation to remain in a looped animation. I’ll explain what I mean.

I have an animation that goes on for about 20 or so seconds. At the end the last part of the whole thing is an egg shape that I want to remain, with it I want a sort of Fluctuating light effect to remain around the egg. Now how do I animate this light effect so that it just loops.

With my current comprehension of flash the only way I know I could do this would just animate the light effect in the timeline but this would eventually run out. Any thoughts?

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what I would probably do is put the light animation inside a movieclip and have it appear on the main timeline when the egg appears. So I would probably place the light movieclip on a new layer above the egg layer, but keyframe it after the egg appears.