Any Flash experts ?

Steves_pc

Steves_pc

Steves_pc

Associate
Joined
18 Oct 2002
Posts
711
Location
Near a Sandbank in Norfolk
Heres a poser for you all,

Imagine this as a flash sequence - your in a tube train in london passing through a station looking at the posters on the wall, now would it be possible to have say 2 or 3 of the posters remain the same but have another say 7 picked at random from a supply of additional images?

So how hard is that and whats involved roughly, i've used Swish to a point but i dont know a fat lot about using macromedia's flash however from some of the stuff i've seen surely it's do-able entirely within flash using its action script.

If i'm way off the mark feel free to say so.

TIA.
 
well .. you could make movie objects scrolling from right to left for example each frame of which would contain different picture and every time the movie gets scrolled random keyframe number is generated and the "poster" movie itself stops on that frame....

not sure if i'm clear enough

P.S. It is quite doable in AS so you better start learning it now ;)
 
Last edited:
not sure i totally get that, although i had a feeling it might need a container of some sort for the pictures then the random bit selects which containers to activate/display in the movie, to add to it though i wanted the posters to scroll past as well not stop.

As for learning AS yeah right, my brains not as absorbent as it used to be, cant even use Flash atm :o

At least youve conmfirmed my thoughts about it being do-able :cool:
 
Each poster would be a movie within that movie of the moving train (if that makes sense) and within each movie script you'd have your sequence of alternate images for those seven movies and the other 3 movies could be 'static movies' or background images depending on what you want.

Each of the movies will have it's own actionscript handlers to do different things with, i.e. while there is an image in the file change image every 2 seconds or whatever.

Google search actionscript forums which will be able to help you with the specifics.
 
Thanks for the pointers so far peeps, heads ready to explode though :eek:

This is how understand it atm.

An array is created in AS for the random images which are stored as movie clips? the random function is used to determine which movie clips are then used in the main movie sequence and thats as far as ive got :-p

Is that about right for how it'd work it ?

Shoot me if im thinking way off here but this can be done and all self contained in the resulting swf ?

bottom line here is someones come up with a method of achieving what we want but theyre talking about cgi and having to duplicate the flash in umpteen folders in case 2 people hit it at the same time :confused: and im thinkin WTF they been smokin?!? i wouldnt mind but the sequence has been running for ages and they just had the idea for adding the random images to it, it just sounds to me like using a hammer to crack a peanut or jcb to stir your tea :p
 
Thanks matey,

Exactly what i meant,
now having looked at it it looks even easier than i thought - well if you know flash as well as you obviously do.

owe you one.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom