Cross-fading Loaded Movie Clips

[eric.nolley]

I have a movie into which other movies are being loaded. I have one button for each movie.
My problem is I want to cross-fade movies when the one that is currently loaded is being replaced by another movie. I'm a true novice at ActionScripting so any help given is greatly appreciated.

Here is the actionscript I have so far:

button1.onPress=function(){
loadMovie ("D Wall Animation.swf", "_root.content");
}

button2.onPress=function(){
loadMovie ("R Wall Animation.swf", "_root.content");
}

button3.onPress=function(){
loadMovie ("T Wall Animation.swf", "_root.content");
}

button4.onPress=function(){
loadMovie ("S Wall Animation.swf", "_root.content");
}

button5.onPress=function(){
loadMovie ("S2 Wall Animation.swf", "_root.content");
}

[RangrJay]

so you want one movie to fade out, while the other fades in?

[eric.nolley]

Yes. I want one movie to fade out when another one is fading in.

I just do not want the screen to go white between movies. All movies contain action that brings them on to the stage from white so the previous movie needs to remain for about 10-15 frames before disappearing completely.

[RangrJay]

ok, a couple more questions, each movie is already preset with a fade in action?? well, with the way you have it set now, it will probably just straight replace that, that's because you loading the new movie at the same depth. your best bet, put a fade in and fade out on each movie. load them into the next highest depths.

personally, i don't like loading external movies, just because i change things so quickly on the fly, i like to be able to have complete control over all the mc's in one project.

my way, i would import each movie, make them their own movieclips, then use the Tween class and function calls to control the fade in and out.

[onerutter]

Check out this page for a great tutorial on how to cross-fade movie clips.

http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/001629.shtml

[groovything.com]

load your movies however you are doing it (mc2.loadMovie("movie.swf"));


ease =1;

onEnterFrame=function(){
bytes_loaded = mc2.getBytesLoaded();
total_bytes = mc2.getBytesTotal();
if((mc1._alpha>0)and(bytes_loaded == total_bytes)){
mc1._alpha -= ease;
}else{mc1.unloadMovie()}
if((mc2._alpha<100)and(bytes_loaded == total_bytes)){
mc2._alpha += ease;
ease = ease*1.5
}else{ease =1;}
}


this is just for crossfading from mc1 to mc2 but it should give you the idea just reverse the mc references to crossfade in reverse.