any flash guru in da house?

[tom182]

before I go off and post of flash forums maybe someone here knows how to control an animation.
I have a flash animation (image sequence from max) and there are 165 frames in total. I would like the animation to play from 0-165 and then on reaching fr 165 it goes to fr 85 and plays out to 165, looping continously from fr 85 to 165. Anyone know if this is possible with scripting?

thanks,
Tom

[Neilg]

Its incredibly easy with swish, ive used it for flash before and you can make some fairly impressive things with no prior knowledge.

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php

[sv]

it's really simple, on frame 165 add a script by going to the actions panel, select movie control > goto > and select Go to and play, Type: Frame number and enter frame 85.

It will just loop because it will move to frame 85, through to 165, then will execute the script again to move back to 85.

[ene.xis]

ditto!

[tom182]

that simple- great,

thanks

Tom

[kimgar]

compile a flv video, make a video object in flash and put this code in frame 1

var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection_nc.connect(null);
var myNetStream:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);
myVideoObj.attachVideo(myNetStream);
myNetStream.play("myVideo.flv");

var waitingForEmpty = false; 
myNetStream.onStatus = function(info) 
{ 
    if(info.code == "NetStream.Buffer.Empty" && waitingForEmpty == true)
    { 
        myNetStream.seek(3.4); 
    } 
    waitingForEmpty = (info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop");
}

regarding 'myNetStream.seek(3.4);' - 3.4 is seconds, if your frame rate is 25 it brings you to frame 85 (85/25=3.4)

i'm not a big fan of embedding video to flash's timeline as it makes the file really bulky and hard to work with - but since your video is only 165 frames it might be worth it sine you'll get a seamless loop with the 'gotoAndPlay(85)' option (flv's tend to have trouble with seamless looping)

as for the embedding part, just make an uncompressed avi and dump that into flash, and flash will encode an flv for you and you get to choose to embed or not.

[tom182]

I just exported out a sequence from the mov and did it the simple way, should I be be restriced to using embedded mov's inthe future I will use your script,

Thanks for that,

TOm