[sjlsam]

ive got 55 frames, and 6 layers
one of the layers is a fade in for the name of the site
the other layers are little animations that i want to play continuously, but i don't want the site name to keep fading in over and over

someone told me that i cant really halt one layer's anims and that i setup my timeline wrong by putting all the layers on the same frames

is there a scripting fix i can do?
i have tried a number of things like stop(); on frame 55, but then that stops the whole movie, and ive tried goto's without luck either

some one also mentioned that i could stop the fade in by making it a movie symbol, i did (it sorta messed up my fade anim), but it still didnt seem to stop playing even with loop off

any ideas? thanks

[Quix]

Hi,
For what you are trying to do, it sounds like you have put yourself in a difficult position (in terms of making things easy to update).

Ideally (using actionScript or not), you'd want to make your "title" and other fading objects, into their own MC's (Movie Clip's). This way, you can handle each ones fading individually and easily be able to move each ones position later with no problems.

So what you should do, is highlight the frames needed to see your "title" completely fade in (so only the frames that have the title graphic, not the blank ones). Then right click on the highlighted frames and select "Copy Frames". Now create a new Movie Clip (insert > new symbol) and call it "title". Your "title" MC should automatically open when you click "OK", but if it doesn't, just click on it's name in the Library. Once inside, right click on the first frame of layer 1 within your "title" MC and select "Paste Frames" from the menu. You should now see all the frames you had highlighted in Scene 1 appear in sequence on layer 1 of your "title" MC.

With the frames copied to your new "title" MC, right click on the "title" MC's very last frame (which should be the title completely fadded in). Select "Insert Keyframe" from the menu that appears to create a new keyframe. With this new keyframe highlighted open up the actions panel for the frame and type in: stop();. With this done, it's time to place the "title" MC onto your main time line, so select Scene 1 (which is up in the left hand corner of the screen) to get back to your main timeline.

Now that you have your new "title" MC ready, select the layer where you originally copied it's frames from and delete all of the frames except one (or delete the entire layer and create a new layer). On the first (and only) frame of this layer, drag an instance of your "title" MC onto the screen. Now right click the very last frame of Scene 1 (in the same layer the "title" MC is in) and select "Insert Frame" to ensure your MC will be seen through to the end.

Finally, add another stop(); action on one of the keyframes at the end of Scene 1 to stop the Scene from playing back.

You'll have to do this for all of the objects you'd like to have fade in. For the ones you'd like to have continually be fading, just leave off the "stop()" action at the end of each individual MC.

[sjlsam]

works great!
thanks for the reply

[Quix]

Originally Posted by sjlsam

works great!

thanks for the reply

No problem. Good luck with the site.

[Dragonkay]

What exactly do you mean by " drag an instance of your "title" MC onto the screen."
I'm trying the same thing and I don't understand what you mean by an instance of it....