Can anyone tell me how to duplicate the loading transition effect used on www.melissasweet.com
I am having trouble with the load movie command closing the door then loading my new movie.
PLEASE HELP !!
try putting your preloader at the beginning of your movie, possibly in a separate scene called ‘preloader’, then have it test bytes/frames loaded in the bigMC that you’re loading in the main scene. set the visibility of bigMC to zero, or have it go to a blank frame, or otherwise hide it until the user clicks its link, and since it’s already loaded, it should go the way you want it…
-mojo
what do you mean???
Thanks alot but Im not sure I understand you.
Here is what I have a link bar with drop down menus
link 1 loads “about.swf” into holder MC on _root.
link 2 loads “about.swf” (for testing purposes) into holder MC on _root.
I want these links to show a door masking effect on each click
(close door “masking content” , then open door revealing a loading bar which will be loading my new movie.)
The part I am stuck on is how can I show this same effect for each link no matter what order the are pressed ?
please take a look
in the example movie, the bigMC is being loaded at the point where the user clicks the button, which is making the preloader status bar kick in, right? therefore, what you want to do is preload that MC before the user enters the main site–so that when the user clicks the button, the animation starts playing straightaway, as it’s already loaded…make sense?
-mojo
ok, so you’re after the functionality that the link showed? i thought that was your site and you wanted to fix that specific problem…
unfortunately, i’m away from my flash machine right now, so i cant look at your .fla until later, but here are some general tips:
first, when you load .swfs, you are putting them on higher levels, which makes masking more difficult–you’d probably need to do something like putting your loadMC inside maskMC, which would hold your mask animation. then you’d need to write a function or other statement that would dynamically construct the name of the swf to load, and then call this when you want your transition to another section.
imo, i’d try not to load external swfs unless absolutely necessary–i used to build movies that had all the content loaded from externals, and found that 9 out of 10 it’s more trouble than its worth–if you are set on using them, that’s cool, just be prepared for more hassles.
i’ll take a look at your file and get back to you later, and in the meantime maybe somebody else will pick up the thread…
-m
check out this fla , it was created by a friend and i updated some code in it.
tell me if it helps 
many, many, thanks to everyone who responded.
I took a look at the file and decided to go another (less smooth route) maily because I am on a time line.
I will keep the file for future reference…
■■■■ you make it look so easy…
