Yet another question for the pro's

programming flash
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Ok,

:beam:

I have created an effect using some PNG files as a back ground animation seperately from my movie…

Now I want to place it unto my movie using the PNG transparency to lay it on the background…It has 7 layers including sound…what I want is for this animation that I made to be running seperatly in the background no matter what…

So how would I import this 8 layer movie as a animation into my current web/flash file without it’s background… and with it’s sounds so that it runs constantly in the background?

Case

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Use loadMovie() and load it to an empty movie clip on the lowest layer in your main movie.

When using loadMovie() the movie imports as a transparent background.

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Thanks beta,

I really am very new!

Is the empty MC used as a place marker to tell the movie where to load?

and how do I make an empty MC?

I do need to put an background image behind it, is that ok since you mentioned that it will be the lowest layer in the movie.

Case

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yes, the positioning of the empty mc is where the movie will load - you create it by going to Create New Symbol, select Movieclip, give it name (eg. movie_loading_layer) and click ok. you should then be in the edit window of the new (empty) symbol - just click on ‘Scene 1’ to go back to your work.

To place the empty mc into your work, press ctrl+L and drag-drop the empty mc from the library onto your workspace. stick it on whichever layer you need and position it on your page. you must give your movie an instance name btw, otherwise when you try and get it to play (after clicking on a button or something), nothing will happen.

kirupa’s tutorial is the best place to learn it - probably explains it a lot better than i do :smiley: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm

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*Originally posted by Casenote *
**I do need to put an background image behind it, is that ok since you mentioned that it will be the lowest layer in the movie. **

Well asphalt covered the rest :slight_smile:

So I will cover this one. You don’t HAVE to put it in the lowest layer, I think I misunderstood you and read that you wanted this loaded movie to be your background.

You can put layers underneith the one with the empty movie clip to load the movie, it will work fine.

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Thanks guys,

Honestly you guys help me out a whole hell of alot…

=) :geek: :stuck_out_tongue: :A+:

Should I put the loop in the original animation or when it’s loaded? Is one of these better for any reasons?

Case

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That is up to you, if you put it in the loaded animation it will take longer for the loaded animation to show, but if you put it in the main movie it will take longer for the main movie to load.

So that is up to you what you want to do.