# Preloader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/7034>\
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**Created:** [October 22, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/7034 "2002-10-22T17:25:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![sk8erboi\_Q8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sk8erboi\_Q8](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sk8erboi_Q8)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/7034/1 "2002-10-22T17:25:46Z")

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hey all,

i have a problem and i hope some1 can help me with it…

i want to create a preloader of my own…i want a jpeg picture to be my preloader, is that possible? like the picture i have is of a speedometer of a car, i want the RPM to be the amount of percent loaded, can some1 help me, or give me some ideas, i’d appreciate anyones help…thnx

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader/7034/2 "2002-10-22T20:09:42Z")

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make the picture for your preloader … try to make it small in file size as the purpose of a preloader is that it loads quickly.

once you have that set make your speedometer and do a full animation of it going from 0-60 (over 100 frames) or whatever speed you want it to go up to

then put a script on the first frame that detects the difference between bytesLoaded and bytesTotal of your target movie (this will give you a percent loaded) then make a script that tells the movie to gotoAndStop on the frame corresponding to the percent loaded.

simple enough but the code would take me a bit of testing to figure out 🙂

hope this helps