How did they do this - sofake.com

[Nigel1985]

http://www.sofake.com/

can someone explain to me the basic idea how you would construct something like this?

[joejoe2288]

It is really quite simple each of those movies are just swf's loaded into the movie that is previous to the respective movie, basically they load a movie, which had a movie loaded into it and so on

[Nigel1985]

Ok so when the first swf plays there are some actions that loads the rest into MC in the first swf? and when you click a button its just a rescales them?

[joejoe2288]

so basically the actions for that would be really simple once you thing about it, all they would have to do is change the _xscale and _yscale of the main movie and that would change the size of the whole thing, hence the 'zooming' affect

[Nigel1985]

hey thanks

but wouldnt making the
mc_blank._yscale = 600;
mc_blank._xscale = 600;

or whatever just "jump" to the new size and not make a actualy tweening effect?

[gorlummeeguvnor]

joejoe - yes i agree that a simple scale manipulation is essentially all that is needed. however - as far as i can see there is more complexity to it than that.its the logic that has me perplexed - i can simulate the effect if i press the buttons individually - but what about a zoom in over a number of movieClips? and what about deciding if it should zoom in or out? any ideas?

nigel

a simple zoom using x and y scale could look like this

function zoom(obj,inc,cond) {
obj._xscale+=inc;
obj._yscale+=inc;
if((inc>0 && obj._xscale>=cond) ||( inc<0 && obj._xscale<cond)) {
clearInterval(zoomInt);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
zoomInt = setInterval(zoom,10,mc1,3,100);

mc1 is the name of the movieClip to be "zoomed"