flash (macromedia):
Create a keyframe on the layer your CAT is on - select the CAT instance and look in Properties Panel
- you can select from the drop doan Loop, Play Once or Single frame and the type in the frame number
you want the CAT timeline to start on.
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www.howtocheatinflash.com [quoted text, click to view] wagz420 wrote:
> Ok, basically what I've done is built an animated character separating it into
> its basic parts (left foot, leg, torso, head, eyes, etc) and I imported it into
> flash ( CS3 ) from photoshop and turned it into (what I believe to be called) a
> nested symbol. I've converted each part into a graphic symbol and then grouped
> them up (like the eyes and the mouth with the head, etc) so that each one can
> be a graphic symbol and not stray away from its parent symbol.
>
> I've successfully made an animation using this setup and it works quite
> nicely, however I have a problem:
>
> In the main timeline, anytime I use this character setup, it plays the parent
> symbol strictly from the beginning of its timeline. Since I don't want a single
> shot of the character for the whole animation, how do I set the main timeline
> (when using the parent symbol for all it's child symbols) to play a second set
> of animations using the same parent/children (so i don't have to keep
> rebuilding this character)?
> [b]
> Basically I'm saying as an example: I have parent symbol cat, with parts
> catbody and cathead (both symbols), cathead has parts cateyes and catmouth
> (also both symbols).
>
> I put CAT into the main timeline for set number of frames
> I animate the head, then the eyes and mouth using their respected timelines.
> Then I have some animation or whatever in the main timeline that's unrelated
> and the cat is no longer visible
>
> Then I want to use symbol CAT again afterwards, but I don't want it to use the
> start of the timeline for its parts from the last time I used CAT and want it
> to either start fresh with no timeline for its parts or skip to a frame on all
> the parts where I designated the next animation to be (without having to
> construct a new CAT with new parts so that the timelines would be empty).
> [/b]
> Is there some actionscript that can help me out here or something else I'm not
> aware of? Basically all the tutorials i can find are very verbose in explaining
> what I've already done, but not about using the same setup again and again and
> having it do different things. (I'm basically making a looong feature and the
> main character is going to be used throughout most of it but I can't rely on
> the same movieclips for the whole animation obviously)
>
> Thanks in advance!~
Ok, basically what I've done is built an animated character separating it into
its basic parts (left foot, leg, torso, head, eyes, etc) and I imported it into
flash ( CS3 ) from photoshop and turned it into (what I believe to be called) a
nested symbol. I've converted each part into a graphic symbol and then grouped
them up (like the eyes and the mouth with the head, etc) so that each one can
be a graphic symbol and not stray away from its parent symbol.
I've successfully made an animation using this setup and it works quite
nicely, however I have a problem:
In the main timeline, anytime I use this character setup, it plays the parent
symbol strictly from the beginning of its timeline. Since I don't want a single
shot of the character for the whole animation, how do I set the main timeline
(when using the parent symbol for all it's child symbols) to play a second set
of animations using the same parent/children (so i don't have to keep
rebuilding this character)?
[b]
Basically I'm saying as an example: I have parent symbol cat, with parts
catbody and cathead (both symbols), cathead has parts cateyes and catmouth
(also both symbols).
I put CAT into the main timeline for set number of frames
I animate the head, then the eyes and mouth using their respected timelines.
Then I have some animation or whatever in the main timeline that's unrelated
and the cat is no longer visible
Then I want to use symbol CAT again afterwards, but I don't want it to use the
start of the timeline for its parts from the last time I used CAT and want it
to either start fresh with no timeline for its parts or skip to a frame on all
the parts where I designated the next animation to be (without having to
construct a new CAT with new parts so that the timelines would be empty).
[/b]
Is there some actionscript that can help me out here or something else I'm not
aware of? Basically all the tutorials i can find are very verbose in explaining
what I've already done, but not about using the same setup again and again and
having it do different things. (I'm basically making a looong feature and the
main character is going to be used throughout most of it but I can't rely on
the same movieclips for the whole animation obviously)
Thanks in advance!~
