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Published: 2007-04-08 15:59:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 18990; Favourites: 112; Downloads: 3690
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Β If you're having issues with Flash CS5 or CS6, check out Meldalverse 's comment here It's very easy to implement into your own movies - just a simple drag and drop onto the first frame, and that's it.
It automatically stops the timeline in which it was put in, until the whole movie is loaded and than continues with the movie normally...
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What took me the most time was the graphics, vectoring the Fella to be more precise. The final Fella design is not as cute as the official one, but I like the slightly more badAss look and the glossy finish that my version has. I hope you do too.
For those of you with more advanced actionScript skills, check out the code for my actionScript lightning engine in one of the subFolders. With some minor adjustments you can implement it in your movies very easily.
There's also the code for those rotating bars in the pill crystal as well.
There's very few comments, sorry, but I think the code isn't that complicated, and I hope you'll find your way through it.
I hope you like it. Enjoy.
Comments and critiques are more than welcome, as always.
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P.S. I haven't tested the MX2004 version. Leave a comment if there are any issues...
P.P.S. Use the stamps, Luke
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Thank you so much, you are very kind
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aww, you're welcome 
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It looks like you have to copy the font to your project, as well.
I've updated the zip file with the new version, where the font is inside of the preloader folder.
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Yeah, but still doesn't work for %.
Is it? I've recent download and checked your files, but you only updated is Actionscript 3. But mine is Actionscript 2 coz I've never learned study Actionscript 3 when I was at college 
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I would, but I cannot. I don't have the old Flash IDE with which I could save to that format.
Just copy the font as well when copying the preloader folder to your movie, that should fix it.
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Oh, i see. i understand that
i tried that i copy and paste your new preloader folder into my movie but it kept saying error many times
Oh well, it's okay. I try to figured it out when i'm free 
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No worries, I'm sad that you haven't managed to solve this :-/
Cheers
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yeah... flash is always got problem sometimes...
Btw, thank you so much for the 
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Hey thanks for making this! I managed to get it working in CS6. Everything was fine except the text kept glitching from 0 to . and repeated non-stop. I switched it out with the text in the pre-made preloader template, (located in File> New> template > Sample files > Preloader for SWF) then changed the instance name in CS6 and it works perfectly.
This might help with people who have issues with CS5 too, because I think it has sample preloaders in there.
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Nice catch.Β Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment for anyone else who might experience the same issue.
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I haven't been using windows for years now. The last time I checked, back in 2008, it worked. Be sure to use the AS3 .FLA version. There are three files in the archive, use pillPreloaderFinalAS3_by_ArtBIT.fla for AS3.
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OMG!!!!!!thx for this dude!!!I needed this!I'll give credit Β
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You're welcome 
There is also a bunch of preloaders in the 2007 contest category:Β www.deviantart.com/browse/all/β¦
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Thanks for this. Β I dropped it in the first frame as you said but it doesn't come up in the swf file here Β goanimator.deviantart.com/art/β¦
Do I need to add any actionscript or is it all included in the symbol?
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It needs to be alone in the first frame, before anything else.
If you have all your assets in the first frame, everything else would need to get loaded at once, so the preloader would not show up, until everything else has already loaded.
Try putting it on an empty frame, before everything else.
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I got this error message. Β goanimator.deviantart.com/art/β¦
I#m using AS3. Β I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
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Hmm, I'm not sure, I haven't tried it.
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never mind i got it working
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i used the acs3 version on adobe cs3 but it doesn't work even though i read the instructions when i downloaded it
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There is an AS3 version in the zip file as well. Are you using that one?
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Thanks, gets tiring/distracting from projects to have to redo the AS and preloader everytime.
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My pleasure
Thanks for using it
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WHAAAAAAAAAAA~ *brain overload* u-uh~ it wont download.... is there anyway i can upload a file from Microsoft movie maker without the flash thingy? O_O'
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I get this error when I put it in my animation βSymbol βmc:Stripesβ, Layer βLayer 1β, Frame 1, Line 16 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method of Stripeβ.
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What Flash version do you use?
If you're compiling to AS2, are you using the AS3 preloader?
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I'm using Flash CS5.5 and used the AS3 preloader for it.
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Hmm, someone else mentioned that they've had problems with Flash CS5, but unfortunately I've been on Linux for years now, and I cannot test it in Flash CS5...
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I see. Thanks for your time I do appreciate it!
I really want to use the preloader though. It looks awesome. I guess I'll explore with it and see what I can find...
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Great preloader, but it doesn't seem to work in the new Flash CS5.5; the percentage just shows up as a bunch of zeros
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Hmm, I don't know what could have been changed in CS5. Did you try both versions? Both AS2 and AS3?
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The latest version I have is CS4. Apart from the zeros problem, it does work, does it? It just doesn't show nicely formatted percentage?
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Last time I checked, that is what the problem was, yes.
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Someone else mentioned they had some issues with CS5.5: [link]
So I'm trying to gather as much info as I can.
Thank you
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i got flash but its not working with my flash or i don't think it is
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heyya artbit! i'm using urs.. I'll credits u !~
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I can't understand the readme file, could you dumb it down a bit?
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Hmm, I tried to make it as simple as possible...
What exactly are you having issues with?
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I can't really get it into the flash program
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Hmm, ok. Could you bit a bit more precise?
Like, you don't know how to do it, or you get some kind of an error?
What Flash version do you have?
Do you code in actionscript 2 or actionscript 3?
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My flash trial expired anyway, so it doesn't really matter anymore
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Bummer :/
Sorry to hear that...
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