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Pigbuster — The Loading Wizard
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Published: 2005-08-04 23:22:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 30477; Favourites: 811; Downloads: 3352
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THIS TUTORIAL IS MADE FOR ACTIONSCRIPT 2. IT WILL NOT WORK FOR ACTIONSCIPT 3.YOU CAN STILL USE AS2 IN CS3, JUST MAKE SURE TO CLICK THE RIGHT BUTTON IN THE "NEW FILE" DIALOG THINGY. ALLCAP BOLD TEXT!
Have you ever wanted to make a good loading screen?
Then call for the Loading Wizard - A mighty wizard who is way too enthusiastic about loading screens. Join him and Tommy Joe as they quest their way through creating things such as loading bars and... more loading bars, while accompanied by the Info Fish, Script Genie, Contents Troll and Adventure Squid! (Adventure Squid does not appear in this tutorial.)
Fun for the whole family. Only $19.99. Don't delay, buy today!
-EDIT- Changed the section, since the Flash > Utilities section is always filled with crap, and the Utilities > Tutorials > Flash section was the right one all along.
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Comments: 332
Lol! This is great! Thank you for taking the time to do this.
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Thannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnk U.
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That's so helpful! Thanks for making it!
What's more is it also works XD Unlike some of the other tutorials.
Great Work!
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I failed. I've only seen the good tutorials for mac's, and I have a PC. I guess I'll just use someone's premade one. >_>
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There's not that much of a difference. Macs just have shinier buttons.
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i know, but for some reason, macs have a different layout. i think it was yours or someone else's that told me to do this one thing that apperently was visible, and i did not see anything.... it always confuses me, but oh well. =/ i'll just have to learn flash in school, lol.
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May you be blessed by lady luck on your noble quest!
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Thank you.
Confusing yet funny is what I was going for, I guess.
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Surely you understood one or two.
And that's good enough!
...aha! It isn't!
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well i did understand some words but the thing is still confusing and even if i do it step by step it co,es out wrong TT-TT
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I see errors in the AS which are supposed to go to the 2nd frame.
Quote:
if (percentLoaded==100){
gotoAndPlay(3);
}else{
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
Supposed to be:
if (percentLoaded == 100){
gotoAndPlay(3);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
Am I wrong?
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Spaces don't really hurt or help anything. It reads it fine either way.
Your suggestion will only make it easier to read.
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I have some problems with the percent/KB counters.
I prefer percentage over KB, so I'll prefer displaying % than KB.
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I have doubt.
Is it supposed to be if(percentDone == 100) or if(percentDone = 100) ??
Or is it just that my Flash MX sucks?
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"if(percentDone == 100)" is correct.
"==" means "Is equal to", so the whole thing asks "If percentDone is equal to 100..."
"=" means "Set equal to", so "percentDone = 100" would make percentDone equal to 100.
Then, the code "if(percentDone = 100)" is basically asking "if(100)", which makes no sense.
I cannot tell you how many days I spent trying to find out the problem in a block of code only to find out that an "=" was causing the trouble.
I should really make a more in-depth tutorial sometime. BUT I'M LAAAAZYYYY!
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Asking splapp on msn was more of a help than this >_>
Although he used your tutorial, and it worked. Somehow.
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Dude, I couldn't have possibly explained that better. I was proud of myself after that reply, and now I'm not.
...though I didn't know that Splapp used my tutorial. That makes me proud of myself. Hey hoh, we've come full circle!
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LOL... anyways good job.
once you've decided to make a new updated tutorial, inform me!
*adds myself to an inexistent subscription list*
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how exactly do u make the shape tween
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Right click on frame.
Choose "Make shape tween".
TWEEEEN.
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lol...
Highlight the first frame you want to tween until the last frame you want to tween. Then, at the bottom of the screen, there is this "Tween: None [v]" section.
Click on the [v] arrow, then click "Shape".
No credit needed
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Holy crap, this is hilarious AND educational.
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i failed in making a load bar...again..
i suck... i don't really have experience with flash at all...
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My first couple flash things sucked, too. You'll get it if you keep at it.
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Arrhhh I tried to apply everything I could in every manner possible to my other project, but it wont work!
I tried to make the loading simulation thingy, but the frame wont come in at all. It'll be stuck at a blank frame, and then only (after loading) the animation play... including the "loader".
[link]
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There has to actually be some content for the preloader to load. Or something. If there's nothing there it will spend all it's time loading the preloader and nothing else.
This may not be your problem at all, but it might.
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Wait, I found an actionscript somewhere on the internet which is more or less like this:
stop();
if (_framesloaded>=_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
...Which is supposed to be in the second frame.
Does it work?
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Possibly.
I'm not sure if _framesloaded is a real thingy or not. If it is, then... yes?
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Will this actionscript work the same way as yours, master?
_root.stop()
totalFrames = Math.round(_root.getFramesTotal());
loadedFrames = Math.round(_root.getFramesLoaded());
percentDone = int((loadedFrames/totalFrames)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percentDone);
if (percentDone == 100) {
_root.gotoAndStop(3);
}
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Sorry, made a few changes:
_root.stop();
totalFrames = Math.round(_root.getTotalFrames());
loadedFrames = Math.round(_root.getFramesLoaded());
percentDone = int((loadedFrames/totalFrames)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percentDone);
if (percentDone == 100) {
_root.gotoAndStop(3);
}
(changed getFramesTotal to getTotalFrames)
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Well, try it out. If it works, it works! If it doesn't, it doesn't!
I don't see a problem with it.
And seeing as I haven't replied to your post in over a week, I have a nagging suspicion that this reply is pointless.
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Funny tutorial, very entertaining, lol. 
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If will try... WILL YOU SUCCEED?
Who knows? Not I.
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how did u make the pop up menu diasppear wen u right click?
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I forgot.
That information is likely, probably, most likely, possibly, maybe elsewhere on the internet.
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ive searched everywhere! but all the codes dont work, or work only on html
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Stage.showMenu = false;
Ta daaaabah.
No idea if it works in 3.0 or nott.
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