Instead of using movieclips, I am using individual movie files for each section of my site, so I was wondering if it was possible to make transition effects between *.swf files and the loadMovie action.
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It’s a little more difficult, but just because you have to work on two different projects keeping in mind what you want as a transition. If it’s just tweens it’s not too difficult. You just set up the tween in the last frames of wherever you’re transitioning out of, then paste the last keyframe into your new project, and continue the tween.
It can be a lot more difficult with more dynamic animations, and the answer would probebly be dependent upon the situation.
I like masking things in and out for this kind of thing. For one reason, I can make animations that play while the mask is closing, is closed, and then while it’s openening; to distract the user from download times. Plus it’s easy to do since in most cases you’re rendering the entire object that’s transitioning, invisible behind the mask.
like I said though… it’s very particular to what animation is transitioning out and in.
I see what you’re saying, thanks for the heads up, gonna test that out, I guess the actionscript might be tricky, cause what I am doing is loading external movies in a movieclip in one part of the display which is loaded as the user selects a section.If you look at my site you might see what I mean. But I will try masking…thanks
