I posted this question earlier, but never really got a response. I have some theoretical questions about preloaders. Let’s say that I only want to load a certain amount of frames from my timeline and then once the user finally reaches a different point in the timeline another preloader would then load the pertinent content. What is the code to have it only load certain frames?
Also, I have my movie loading an outside swf file and was just wondering where the preloader should be? On the timeline of the swf file that is going to be loaded?
yes, if you’re loading an external swf file the preloader for that file should be in that file. thats the easiest way to do it in my humble opinion.
and as for your preloader. i would just use scenes or seperate swf files for the “pertinent” content that you’re wanting to load at a different time. becuase there are so many ways to build preloaders. you can edit it to do that but it seems that it would be easier just to do a preloader for scene 1 then when they click or do whatever the event is you’re looking for, you can load the other content with a completely seperate preloader for a seperate scene. obviously though you would keep the same look so that the scene changes would be seamless to the user.
hope this helps.
if you have a more specific question about a preloader you have, post it here, also there are some excellent tutorials on the net and on this site. in the top left there is a search for this site, put in preloader there and you should get a whole list of tutorials about preloaders
Thanks so much for the quick response. What you said brings me to another question. I don’t really understand how preloaders interact with scenes. If I stick only one preloader at the beginning of my movie (say a total_frames script) does that read the frames from all of my other scenes as well? What type of script would work best if I just wanted the preloader to load the frames from its scene?
actually i believe i was partially incorrect in my previous post. and you’re quite welcome for the response, i always check to see if i can answer the posts with 0 responses b/c i know how frustrating it is to not get a response. but anyway i believe a preloader will preload the whole file, scenes and all. but all you would have to do to get around that is load seperate swf files. instead of seperate scenes. then you could have a preloader on each.
that will get you the search for preloaders i was telling you about, there are like 10 tutorials on different kinds of preloaders, so you should be able to find one that fits your needs =)
