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Published: 2005-08-04 23:22:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 30478; 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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I assumed that most people would know about the techniques of tweening.
Look it up! The internet is quite a book!
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Eh, I just found out ^^
It's rightclick+createtween, right? o-o
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Great tutorial, but I'm having trouble on the third frame of the actionscript layer in my loader. Flash keeps telling me that there is an error on the first line involving "on (release) {"
"1087: Syntax error: extra characters found after end of program.
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There might be an extra '
If it's copy and pasted directly from the tutorial, then there's some kind of problem, there.
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Oh how I wish there were a "Disable Smilies" button.
Either that or people would realize that making something like ' ) ' change into an emoticon isn't a very good idea.
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haha yeah, could it be because I'm using actionscript 3.0?
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Ah Okay! Thanks for the replies
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I actually use AS 3.0 myself nowadays, so I can't use my own tutorial properly anymore.
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Haha, what changes do you have to make to the codes? Sorry if I sound stupid, I'm totally new to Flash
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Perhaps I will make an AS 3.0 version sometime.
By "perhaps" I mean "never".
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Ha, I don't blame you.
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that tought me how to hate technology becasue i did everything the instructions told me to do, and flash just totally isobeyed me and then fucking erased the progress due to the program suddenly encountering an error and shitting down! FUCK THIS
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May I ask, why is it that the loading bar will NOT move?
My animation, which I used to test this loading screenie thingy. [link]
But once I have removed the _root.stop() from the AS in the first frame, the loading bar was perfect! marvelous!!
And I noticed: We do not need 2 frames for the loading bar.. only one will do, because in the actionscript in the first frame ends with the bar.gotoAndStop(percentDone); stuff. So there's no need for the second frame, yeah.
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I have no idea why _root.stop() would break it, but someone else had that problem, so it must be something.
What version of Flash do you have, BTW?
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Macromedia Flash MX Version 6.0
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i followed all the instructions carefully and when i simulate download, it jumps straight from the first to the last frame... i tried the solutions people came up with in the comments, but still seem to have the same problem... has anyone else asked about this, or should i just tweak the code somewhere?
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You might possibly have the connection settings set too high, so when you simulate a download it immediately loads everything.
Putting content in the movie can fix that, as then it actually has something to load. Setting the connection settings to dial-up can also help that.
If that ISN'T the problem, then tweak away.
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omg that was awesomely hilarious!! xDDD great job, it helped me a lot
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Um, it won't go to the play button I made in the third frame that says it's done loading. The bar just sits there after the it's filled up. How do I fix it?
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Mess around with the code until you get it.
Messing around is the first step to knowledge.
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Okay. Whatever you say.
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What do you mean by "go into the bar and make 2 more layers"? (Making the loading bar section)
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Make 2 more layers in the bar movie-clip, I assume is what I mean.
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This is so thorough and really helps people who are new to flash and still in experimental stages, like me. I really understood all of this, although I didn't understand how to bring up action script, and how to use it, but once I figured it out, I was on a roll.
Your tutorial is amazing to say the least, and I look forward to anything else you may post in the future.
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Um...I'm having trouble following...where do you download the application for this thing though?
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Adobe.com, I assume.
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hey thatΒ΄s a great tutorial congrats and it helped me a lot whooooo
keep that way...
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dude.. this tutorial owns!
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how do you get teh flash?
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from teh computar store.
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hey i am working with cs3 and i can find the simulate download i looked on both programms and the action scripting thing where it waits doesnt work? can u help me?
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This thing was made before CS3, and CS3 is significantly different from what I got.
But I have CS3 now, so I'll take a look...
...it looks like it's under the "view" menu.
You have to make sure that you have the preview selected to do this, though.
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what do u mean by preview
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man, that's good! Actually without the codes I surely couldn't make it O.O hard!
When I finish my flash animation I'll put credits for you, because you really helped me! Thanks!
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can i ask what flash program you use?
I have flash 8 professional or works this tut with all versions?
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It should work with flash 8.
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dude that was awsome gonna have to try
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