linking movies

[joebudda]

I can’t seem to figure out how to link one movie to a particular scene in another movie.
Maybe even a certain frame in the scene in the other movie.
Or can you only link to the first frame of the first scene????

Joe

[scottris]

Link how exactly? I'm not quite sure what you mean..

[joebudda]

well i got a few movies going on...
sure i can load a new movie...
but the prob. is, i want to link to the 3rd scene in the 2nd movie from the first movie...

[scottris]

ok.. now I see.. You are using the Load Movie command to load several movies within the same Flash player, right? If so, then...

That is a two part problem..

First.. You can use the "_level#" statement in a path, perhaps with a Tell Target Action, like this:

Tell Target ("_level2")
Go to and Play (3)
End Tell Target


But the second problem is sending a movie to a specific frame acrost a scene..

Unfortunately, you cannot say:

Tell Target ("_level2")
Go to Next Scene
Go to and Play (3)

If only you could.. it would make things so much simpler.. But you cannot. So I would suggest something like this:

Set Variable: "_level2:gotoScene" = 2
Set Variable: "_level2:gotoFrame" = 3
Tell Target("_level2")
Go to and Play ("jumpscene")
End Tell Target

Then create a keyframe labeled "jumpscene" which checks the variables gotoScene, and jumps to the appropriate scene.. And then place a keyframe at the beginning of each scene that checks the variable gotoFrame, and goes to the requested frame.


Perhaps there is a simpler way to do that... but I cannot think of it right now..

[Angst]

I really hate to do this but, I am new to flash and you explanation through me for a loop. Is there some way to explain it better or have a quick .fla to show by example?

[Pope de Flash]

Are you saying you have a "Movie clip" or a movie loaded into a level using the load movie command. Can't help you out with out that tid bit of information. Regards, Bill

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[joebudda]

In my case I have got different movies “as in swf files” and I want to go to a scene within the other “swf”. I would even like to go to a frame within the scene.
but me dumb