Movie Clips + Flash

mully

Hello, you helpful, helpful bunch.

I have what I hope is not a hugely complicated question.

I'll tell you my goal and how I'm trying to accomplish it, and then you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Sound good? Okay, let's go:

GOAL: To turn a sequence of frames (let's pretend in this situation that I am animating a flashing light, so one frame is dark and the other is light), into a movie clip so that I can tween it across (for example, if I were animating a road sequence and having the blinking light coming towards us).

Here's how I'm trying to do it:

1) Create all frames in animation
2) Highlight all frames in animation
3) F8 - Movie Clip, and I title it something like "blinky_mc"
4) Pull clip from library onto stage
5) F6, put the clip where I want it in the end
6) Tween between the first and last keyframes

The problem:

My movie-clip doesn't play. No matter what I do, it does not play. What the heck!

I look forward to your help and/or advice, H&A.

Your friend always,

mully

Jasconius

Does it show the first frame at least? Or does it not appear at all.

mully

Yeah, it shows the first frame. And then it gives me the finger. (Which is to say, it doesn't play; if it gave me the finger, I'd be happy that it animated at all, regardless of what I may have previously wanted.)

Jasconius

are you sure you didn't accidentally copy a stop()?

why not just add a play() somewhere?

ensure that your tween copies into your new movie clip?

mully

I have absolutely no clue as to how ActionScript works or how to get to it, if that's what you're talking about.

Also - I have to copy the tween into the clip? But I want my animation to run WHILE it's being tweened .. I don't know any other way to have an animation do the same thing over and over (like the blinking for instance) and tween in a direction.

I don't know much at all about Flash.

virgilsamms

I haven't used flash in a while but I used to do this with maya animations that were exported as many image frames. If they are named right you can import the first one and it will guess that they are all part of a sequence, thus:

http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/ss/importsequence.htm
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=654906

Then you end up with your images each in it's own frame on the timeline and it plays out like a movie.

If you imported into a...movie clip?...then in your main flash movie you can animate it around while it plays just like any other object.