silly flash question
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- aliendn
say you made an intro in flash, but are too much of a dullard to have thought in advance that you should have reserved the first frames for a preloader. are you screwed? is there a way to insert frames before the first frame?
oh yeah, and im asking for a "friend" ;-)
- kpl0
create a new swf which loads your original swf onto itself, and put the preloader into that new swf.
- PuFFi0
you mean scenes ?
- MrDinky0
use scene.. add scene and move it forward..
thats just silly
- atomica0
you can either move the frames forward, which could be a pain, or just make a new scene1 name your current scene scene2 and make the preloader in scene1... solution... i hope so.
- sauerbraten0
don't make another SWF, that's making it more complicated. select all layers of frame 1 and insert 2 frames, after select them again and drag them right two spaces, now you should have two blank frames before anything that was there previously, put your preloader in there. ?
- kpl0
Oh, you still have access to the fla. in that case make a new scene and put it in front like someone else said.
- unformatted0
do what sauerbratin said, dont' use scenes, they for n00bs. ;)
- sauerbraten0
yes, for n00bs.. ?
- unformatted0
damn i mean sauerbratEn, f*d your name up. don't change your name again. :) i'll just say joe/brian or whatever.
- aliendn0
thanks guys, but i am a noob, and i wasn't even aware that you could do preloading for other scenes (well the method anyhow), so thanks for that revelation. peace.
- 4cY0
sauerkraut, hmmm.......
bratwurst, hmmmm....
n00bs?
:P
- atomica0
Scenes are for newbs? I'm learning flash at the moment, going through it as i need it and trying to form a good knowledgebase of actionscript, but I wouldn't see utilizing a scene as a bad thing in this case, first off its part of the media that's designed for stuff like this right? Scene 1: Titlesequence, AKA Preloader. Scene2: The movie, AKA your content... its setup like makin a movie eh... makes sense to me...
- JazX0
hee hee
- sauerbraten0
scenes are actually helpful when you're doing a long animation where you don't want to load SWFs into the file, they're not so bad. we all first use scenes for preloaders which is totally useless..
- unformatted0
werd,
when you first use flash, everyone (ok, maybe not everyone), but in the long run, i realized, it becomes a pain in the *ss to change things if needed. not to mention scenes are just an extension of you timeline.
should just add a couple frames to front of animation and put preloader in front.
just my preference though.