Preloader

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I have created a preloader.
But mine doesn’t work fine.

I want it to show the loading progress of the whole thing.
If you can take a look at the .fla file that I attach, you will understand what I mean.

It starts showing the percentage when the percentage is about 50%.
How can I make it work to start it from 0%?

Thank you!

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the preloader works fine … what’s happening then? the movie has nothing to load but the ‘loaded’ text so …

anyway I’ve made a little modification … maybe you’ll like it maybe not.

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I forgot to say … add an image or something with a higher size at frame 3 so you can see how the preloader works

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You might also want to check out this link

http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6794&highlight=preloader

a lot of times you will get a bump in the beginning of your preloader as initial things are loaded. In the case of the above link… it’s all code, making it extremely small. If you’ve got a question about it, post it over there. We’ve quite a few MX genius’ around that would love to elaborate on prototypes.

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sorry, I didn’t explain well.

let’s say that you put a movie clip that in frame 1&2 so that the movie clip goes while the whole movie gets loaded.

If the movie clip is a little heavy, the percentage shows from 30%, 40% or whatever. It doesn’t start from 0%. For example, http://www.billybussey.com/ has a 3d movie that goes while the movie gets loaded and preloader starts from 0%. You know what I mean?

Please take a loot at the attachment.
If you test the movie, the percentage starts from 35%.

I hope you understand what I am saying.

Thank you for your help
I appreciate it.

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I can’t actually look at that right now. I have no Flash on this machine. :frowning:

Are you saying that you do have a picture on frame 1 with the preloader?

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I want to put a movie clip in frame 1&2 where the preloader is.
that’s what I want to do.

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Well that’s not easy to overcome. I’m always having jumps at the beginning of my preloader. That why I mentioned the prototype one… it’s small. Even 25k can cause a bit of a improper jump to the movie, but I’ll bet that method is 4k at most. It’s the kind of thing that will give you a really fast startup to the preloader.

Are you using framesloaded or getbytesloaded?

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oops… I cliped out some of that last post by accident.

I was going to say… Keep in mind that a preloader which is geting the properties of the main timeline, is going to include the preloader, all of it’s elements, and the movie clip that you want there, as part of the total package. If all of that is more than 45k or so, it will bog down the beginning of the preloader on any 56k connections.
I usually use the loadMovie(); method to load segments of my whole production into movie clips on the stage. I can then use things like getbytesloaded on the movie clip to get readings for a preloader.

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i also have a same problem with takashi. The preloader start from 50% with small size file. When i have over 2MB size file, it wont show my preloader bar or text or %…

How do i fix it??

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To so9

I figured this out.
I don’t know what kind of preloader you use, but I figured this out.
I attach the file and you can take a look at it.

Good luck

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thx buddy