I am making a movie in which there is a forestry scene that lights up and dims based upon the time of the day outside. For example, during the crack of dawn, it is dark and blue outside and the trees are like that too, and during the evening, it is more orange and yellow. Is there a way to get the time of the day and make it interact with the scene, based on the time the user views it? If so, please explain to me the general or specific way to go about it. Thanx.
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hi Hien
take a look at the post I made last night to Carl, regarding a clock in F5. All you would have to do is use an IF statement on the hours variable, ie: IF /:hours>18 then you would initiate the PM version of your site, otherwise, the daytime version would initiate.
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take a look at the post I made last night to Carl, regarding a clock in F5. All you would have to do is use an IF statement on the hours variable, ie: IF /:hours>18 then you would initiate the PM version of your site, otherwise, the daytime version would initiate.
dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com
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Is it possible to make the colors of the atmosphere (trees and all) change incremently as the day went by? I pictured in mind a gradual transition of the colors, not just a daytime or nighttime type deal.
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hi again Hein
Likewise with the trees, you could use the number of 'hours' to set the Alpha property of any movie-clip. Wouldn't fancy messing around with multiple RGB-setting though, you'd be writing code for ages to make sure you're colour tints were right for every mc.
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dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Likewise with the trees, you could use the number of 'hours' to set the Alpha property of any movie-clip. Wouldn't fancy messing around with multiple RGB-setting though, you'd be writing code for ages to make sure you're colour tints were right for every mc.
Virus: couple of weeks ago, lost everything! Company ground to a virtual standstill for 6 days.
dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com
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Dave:
#1: glad you're back!
#2: got my form feedback problem worked out; and I'm using your code. Thanks again!
#3: While we're on the subject, what about getting time &/or date in Flash4? Developing a site w/ Flash4 compatibility, I find it frustrating to try to load text from a text file based on the date (like an auto-updating calendar, or some such).
I tried going the route of using java to get the system date and pass it as a parameter to the flash movie in the HTML shell code, as described on moock.com, but I got lost along the way.
Has anyone out there run into this? Any ideas? The java solution is fine with me, if I can just get it to work.
Bill.
#1: glad you're back!
#2: got my form feedback problem worked out; and I'm using your code. Thanks again!
#3: While we're on the subject, what about getting time &/or date in Flash4? Developing a site w/ Flash4 compatibility, I find it frustrating to try to load text from a text file based on the date (like an auto-updating calendar, or some such).
I tried going the route of using java to get the system date and pass it as a parameter to the flash movie in the HTML shell code, as described on moock.com, but I got lost along the way.
Has anyone out there run into this? Any ideas? The java solution is fine with me, if I can just get it to work.
Bill.
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