Loading external .jpgs randomly with one fading into next

[mganeles]

Hello,

Loading external .jpgs randomly with one fading into next

I would load jpgs with one fading in to the other, randomly (from a pool of five jpegs) on to the stage. My pictures are about 300k+ each, so I'll externally load them from the sam folder as my .swf file.

I'd like to know how to generate the random numbers, and how to get the externally loaded jpgs to fade into one another. I'm loading into a clip, and my understanding is that when a jpg is loaded in to an empty movie clip, it takes on the properties of that movie clip. So, if I have the empty movie clip fade (Alpha from 0 to 100, then back to 0), then I thought the picture would do the same.

Please help with one or both issues. Thanks, Mamaglee

 

[oldnewbie]

If by fade into one another, you really mean a dissolve, then you'd need to use 2 movie clips holders, stacked one over the other, and always load the next picture in the top container after swapping the depths of the containers.

As for the random loading, is this a continuous looping of loading random pictures, or are you just loading 5 random pictures, and then it stops?

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[mganeles]

Thanks, stops after loading the last image. Thank you for the dissolve instructions too. Mamaglee