Basically, what I thought would have been quite easy is actually confusing me now and i’m not sure what the best way is to go about this.
I have been importing and recreating the site im working on inside a project file in flash. It is made up mainly of imported parts originally created in Photoshop. One part of the site will have a box with a looping animation happening within it after the site loads up. I made the animation in a seperate flash project and saved it as a swf file. I then imported this into my current w.i.p. project hoping that it would easily fit, the problem is. I wanna know if im doing this right for a start, and want a bit of help managing the imported swf file animation.
When it is imported, I see lots of keyframes that indicate each frame of animation. I moved the whole thing by selecting it all and moving to the correct position. However each fram is by default, in the default position. How do I make it so that when I move the animation swf file into place, it is in the right place for every frame.
Secondly, I noticed that I can still see what goes on outside the frame of the animation box which of course gets in the way of the rest of the site. How would I get around this? Does it have anything to do with masking. If so is it best to make a mask around the animation box inside the flash project file for it before I export it as a sfw file.
I havent used a mask properly yet so i’m still new to that. Either way, from what i’m doing so far, is it the correct way to do this sort of thing. Im presuming this is how people deal with moving banners in flash sites.
Cheers RR
