Loading Sequence. 1

[Ivan1]

Hi.
I've been trying to figure out how to develop a loading sequence similar to the one found at

http://www.jeep.com

(follow the "Go 4X4 It" link). If you click on one of the options at the bottom after you entered the link, you'll see that before the pre-loader appears there is a mud splatter effect, and then after the movie is loaded it animates the screen before opening the loaded movie. How do I achieve this effect? Basically what I'm trying to do is animate the change over between the movies. Any suggestions are very much appreciated.
Ivan

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[PaulFynch]

the mud effect is just an animation at the end of the first movie before the preloader is called.

when the user clicks the button, tell the movie clip with the final animation to play, and then you could have a frame action in the last frame of that animation loading the next movie into the MC holder or new level or whatever.


on(release){
_root.myMudClip.gotoAndPlay("exitPart"
}

frame near the end of the mudclip

_root.myMCHolder.loadMovie("movietoLoad.swf"

then kik in your preloader for "movietoLoad.swf"

hope that helps

cheers
paul

 

[Ivan1]

This will not work if you have a menu of ten buttons, each loading a different movie (you'd have to use ten closing sequence MCs). There is gotta be a way to use the same MC for exiting sequence for all buttons, and then have the actual button action specify which movie to load.

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[oldnewbie]

If you're looking for a transition type preloading...
This might be worth a look...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm

Regards,

 

[Ivan1]

That's exactly what I've been looking for!
Thank you so much.
Ivan

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[oldnewbie]

Ok! Great!

Regards,