Different versions of animated image in single swf file
I am making a game which has several objects (beds, crates, tables) that can be placed on a grid.
The objects are created in flash and exported as individual .swf files. Each object can be rotated. To do this I create 4 frames in each .swf and draw a different version of the image in each frame. This allows me to 'rotate' an object in actionscript by simply going to the next frame of the swf movieClip.
This simplifies things a lot for me, as it follows logically that an object will have one image file (swf) for all orientations. However, I've hit a problem in that I would like the object to have an animation. Does anyone know if there is a way to do this? or perhaps another technique I could use.
I think It's best to explain with an example. Let's say I have a television that I draw in four different frames with different rotations. The first frame has the television facing in a south west direction. The 2nd frame has a south east facing television and so on. This is what I have at the moment. What I'm wanting to do next is add an animation to the television, e.g. display something moving on the screen.
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Hi,
I have several mp3 files that I use in my Flash animation but I want to publish this animation as a single SWF file. Don't want the mp3 to be also made available along with the SWF. Can you please tell me how to do this ?
-ThanksSince I am not sure if your question was about security, you can use Sound and SoundChannel classes to stream mp3s at runtime.This way you don't need to include these files with your SWF and sound stream is more controllable.
There are many tutorials on how to do that, inclusing Adobe documentation:
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/Sound.html
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/SoundChannel.htm l
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How to use aggregator to create a single swf file from multiple files
Hi everyone,
I am working on the client's requirement where i have to create a SCROM 2004 based video. Its basically a PPT inside the captivate file. And it has around 175 slides in the file. Some of the slides have animations, voiceover. I am facing a problem during PUBLISHING the file into single SWF file format. Whenever I Publish the slides as SWF, it creates number of SWF files, Swf skin of the player and other manifest, Scorm 2004 files.
I want only one single SWF file in which every slide should be incorporated in it. Dont know, why it is happening? I tried aggregator for this also, but it didnt worked... The Skin.swf has been easily added and no other files are adding. It shows me an error: "Name.swf is not a AS3 Captivate file ....."
I am new to this. Please help me out as I have a very short deadline for this.
Thanks and RegardsMaybe you misunderstand: this is a user forum, not online help by Adobe staff.
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Video and skin in single swf file... sigh....
Hi all,
This may be an obvious one to some of you but I have been
tearing my hair out for several days and cannot find detailed
information on what I am trying to do anywhere...
I have a requirment to convert several short DV video files
to SWF so I can publish on a web page. The finished products need
to be a single SWF files.
Importantly they also need to include a control skin.
I have been trying to use both Flash CS3 and Captivate 3 to
do this with no success. (I have found info on how to do it with
Captivate, i.e. remove borders etc, but that presents some other
problems which I won't go in to here as it's a different topic)
Is what I am trying to do possible inside Flash ? Surely it
is?! Can I import a DV video, add a control skin and publish it all
as a single SWF ?
I believe there are shareware third party products that can
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it appears to be so difficult. (unless I am missing something
obvious...)
So if anyone coudl help that would be fantastic, even if
that's just pointing me in the direction of some reading material..
Cheers.oconndav,
> Is what I am trying to do possible inside Flash ? Surely
it is?!
It is. :)
> Can I import a DV video, add a control skin and publish
it all
> as a single SWF ?
You can, but be aware that video -- especially sizable video
-- works
best when the FLV file is situated outside the SWF. I
understand that your
project requirements dictate otherwise, which makes this a
bit of a
challenge, but you can put everything into a single SWF. It
just means
you'll be building your elements by hand and will control the
video as if it
were a movie clip (that is, a MovieClip class instance)
instead of an
FLVPlayback instance or Video instance in conjunction with
NetConnection and
NetStream instances.
> I believe there are shareware third party products that
can do
> this, but I really want to use Flash and I can't
understand why
> it appears to be so difficult. (unless I am missing
something
> obvious...)
Well, again, heavy Video files aren't really designed to
play inside
SWFs. For whatever reasons Macromedia/Adobe chose, video is
ideally
designed to be controlled as an external asset.
In your case, you won't be able to use the FLVPlayback
component. You
won't even be able to use the older Media components or the
component-less
Video object solution. You'll import your video asset to the
Library, place
it inside a movie clip symbol (which will stretch to an
incredible length),
then place your movie clip on the Stage and give it an
instance name. Once
it has an instance name, you can refer to it with
ActionScript. The
MovieClip class entry of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference (or 3.0, if
you're uasing AS3) will give you everything you need to know
(and can do)
with movie clips.
ActionScript will give you access to the total number of
frames of that
clip, as well as the current frame. You can tell the playhead
to go to any
of its frames, play, stop, etc. In this way, you can mimic
many of the
capabilities of the FLVPlayback component -- though with less
precision.
The "skin" of your video player will be determined by you
... by button
symbols for the buttons (or you could use movie clips), as
well as other
graphic elements. It's going to be a totally
built-from-scratch project,
and you'll have to program the buttons yourself. How would
you rate your
comfort level with ActionScript?
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design." -
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PeterOK, only solution I've found is to use a 3rd party program - try cutePDF.
Thanks for nothing HP! -
How to publish a single SWF file?
Hello, I need to know how can I publish a single SWF file
(like the EXE option).
I've tryied to publish many times, but the Captivate creates
many SWF files, including the skin.swf file, but this one I know
how to remove.
I'm using Captivate 3.0.
Thank you!Hi there
Given the date I'm sure it's something that got lost in translation during the forums upgrade.
See if the link below helps.
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Creating single .swf file without border causes control bar jump
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Export a fla as single swf files
Hi,
is there a hint or workaround how to export (save) all frames
of a FLA file
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Thank you in advanve
PeterHi,
that hint does'nt help. The problem is that I want to have
all frames out of
one FLA file stored as SINGLE swf file.
Example: Source: test.fla with 5 frames exported to:
test_001.swf,
test_002.swf, test_003.swf ...
Any idea how to do?
Kind regards
Peter
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>i may have missed your question - but this is a simple
File > Publish
>Settings question - you can also Export as SWF - so not
sure if you know
>this and are having problems? there are no work arounds
to this as it is
>very basic flash procedure. Please re-explain if i didn't
understand.
>
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> lollipop wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a hint or workaround how to export (save)
all frames of a FLA
>> file as single swf files (like
>> you can export a FLA in single JPG files)?
>>
>> Would much appreciate if someone has a hint for me.
>>
>> Thank you in advanve
>>
>> Peter -
So Wat to do? Is there any way to get out as a single swf file from captivate.
Dear friends,
I am beginner in Adobe Captivate. We have a E-learning
project. We are using Dockers as our LMS. Previously we were using
Flash for all. Now we are trying Captivate for better and faster
results. I have few swf files and i inserted al files in Captivate
and i published. So instead of getting single output, am getting
all the swfs, skin swf and html file. Html file is accessing all
swfs and works. But it is not working in Dockers. Single swf will
only work in Dockers. So Wat to do? Is there any way to get out as
a single swf file from captivate. please Help mee.
Thanks
FlashloverIf 'Dockers' cannot handle a .zip file as the content and
instead
requires a single, uncompressed content file, then it is not
SCORM-compliant. The SCORM specification requires the LMS to
handle a
'pif' file (most common is .zip) which contains the lesson
and the
required manifest file. If Dockers doesn't support that then
you can't
do SCORM-compliant content.
Erik
loverflash wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> We are using
> Dockers as our LMS.
> So instead of getting single output, am
> getting all the swfs, skin swf and html file. Html file
is accessing all swfs
> and works. But it is not working in Dockers. Single swf
will only work in
> Dockers.
>
> Thanks
> Flashlover
>
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UNB
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UNE
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UNE
UNZ
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Not able to publish project as a single swf File
Hello Captivate experts.
I have a problem publishing only one swf file with Captivate.
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These files are the files who always get published together with the main .swf. So after publishing I got three swfs instead of only one
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if it is sophomoric. Someone created a .swf file for my site that
transitions multiple images in & out. It can be seen here:
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Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how it should be
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basically I want to know what the problem is before I pay someone
to fix it.
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(FLA) file - do you have that by chance?
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
GACUTIL wrote:
> Hi. I'm not a Flash developer, so please excuse this
question if it is
> sophomoric. Someone created a .swf file for my site that
transitions multiple
> images in & out. It can be seen here:
http://www.shadyladylighting.com.
>
> The problem is the images seem to abruptly move/jump as
they are in
> transition. It's almost as if they jump quickly before
they change. You have
> to look close to see it, but it's very annoying once you
see it happening.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how it should
be fixed? Although I
> can't fix it I must hire someone to do so, and basically
I want to know what
> the problem is before I pay someone to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
> -
How to automate saving single swf files?
Right off the bat.... I'm a newbie...it will be obvious I'm sure. This is what I'm doing....
01. I take a PowerPoint slide show and convert it to an .emf (MetaData) PowerPoint show in power point.
( an aside...I have used enhance MetaData and regular MetaData and haven't noticed any difference. No biggie I guess)
02. I then load the Flash CS4 stage with the .emf PowerPoint slide show.
03. Do some clean-up.
04 I then must save individual .swf files of the timeline. ( I notice there doesn't seem to be a key board stroke for Export Image... that seems weird)
05. I do all the mouse clicks and save the .swf's in a folder. For 80 or more slide per show this is very tedious I must say. Clicking, numbering, saving, advanceing, clicking, numbering saving...etc. I typically end up with a folder with ...Slide_01, Slide_02, Slide_03 etc. which is what I want.
What is the best way to automate this process? I'm not a programmer, but is a Macro program what I need. Or is there a way in Flash to simplify this process ..of course I'm not a programmer.
Thanks!
mp1. You can customize the keyboard shortcuts in Flash.
- Go to Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts
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- Navigate the tree into File/Export
- Select the Export Image node
- Click the "+" button in the Shortcuts area
- Hit the key combination you want to use for this
- Click the "Change" button
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- Click OK
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color values to insert into the blank pixels. Either way, the image
fidelity suffers as a result.
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