Making actionscript fades gradual

[Boxwell]

When I fade a movie by reducing its alpha setting in a 'for' loop, it is virtually instantaneous. How would I make it more gradual and subtle. I have had a little look at the set Interval function but can't figure how I would use it here.


Can anyone help?

Thanks
Graeme
www.reebox.co.uk

[Flash Ninja]

loop the script between 2 frames, the for loop will preform all actions until the condition is true BEFORE returning values

[Boxwell]

Not quite sure what you mean, can you give me an example?

Graeme
www.reebox.co.uk

[lucky-black-cat]

Hi

You should check out onClipEvent(enterFrame); in the reference.

You can have some thing like this ... on the action for a movie clip instance named mc1, which is on the main timeline (_root).

onClipEvent(load){
	_root.mc1._alpha = 100;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
	if(_root.mc1._alpha >0) {
		_root.mc1._alpha -= 5;//change this to speed/slow rate
	}
}

This would reduce the _alpha of mc1 by 5 each frame that is played. Change the 5 in the example or the movie frame rate to speed/slow.

[Boxwell]

I'm looking to do the fade on the rollover of one of the buttons. Here's the code I've got for the rollover:

newButton.onRollOver = function() {
		for (shade=0; shade<100; shade++) {
			_root.mouthgraphic._alpha -= (shade/1000);
		}
		createEmptyMovieClip("rol", 1000);
		rol._x = 350;
		rol._y = 500;
		rol.createTextField("rollovertext", 10, 0, 0,500, 300);
		rol["rollovertext"].text = this.var_over;
		rol["rollovertext"].setTextFormat(rollover);

How could I incorporate it into this?

Thanks

Graeme
www.reebox.co.uk

[Boxwell]

It's alright. I've managed to sort this one.

Thanks for all your help,

Graeme
www.reebox.co.uk