Sequencing multiple flash movies

[JimH16]

Hello guys,

I've got a sequesnce of 4 or 5 movies (non-interactive animations) that I want to play one after the other. They are too large to just upload to the library and throw on the time line - like 10MB-20MB each, the machine really struggles with this. Can I make a move that accesses them without them being embedded? Would it be possible to add a soundtrack that goes over all of them, ie, the do not have an individual sound track. I create one movie file that plays the others and adds the sound.

Thank you.

[cancerinform]

Put this script in your main movie:

var myArray:Array = new Array ("movie1.swf", "movie2.swf", "anothermovie.swf");
var mc:MovieClip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip ("mc", 1);
mc.loadMovie (myArray[0]);
var count:Number = 0;
timer = setInterval (myFunction, 1000);
function myFunction ()
{
    if (mc.movieEnd)
    {
        count++;
        mc.loadMovie (myArray[count]);
        mc.movieEnd = false;
    }
    if (count >= (myArray.length - 1))
    {
        clearInterval (timer);
    }
} 

In each of your child movies at the end put a variable movieEnd and set it to false.

[JimH16]

Thanks, but how are they found? I don't quite understand - does it automaticfally look at the route folder?

[cancerinform]

You mean the variable or what is found?

[JimH16]

WEll either - sorry I'm new to variables and stuff.

...I've made a pretty serious miscalculation - Flash does not like all this material, thought it would compress much smaller and then it would easily fit into the library. Not good - thanks for help.

[cancerinform]

In the first frame put

movieEnd = true;

in the last frame

movieEnd = false;

[JimH16]

OK thanks

[JimH16]

Seems to keep repeating first film - yes have added the MovieEnd varible.

[cancerinform]

Sorry my mistake has to be the other way round.

In the first frame put

movieEnd = false;

in the last frame

movieEnd = true;

and play around with the timing here

timer = setInterval (myFunction, 1000);

choose smaller numbers, 10, 100.

[JimH16]

OK, as my files are all .swf files what I'm attempting to do is import them into the library, add a layer, add the actionscript then export it from the library - this should work? takes a long time to get them into the library..like hours. My machine's got 2GB RAM too.

[JimH16]

Man, still doesn't work - getting desperate here. Any other methods? flash8?

Thankyou

[JimH16]

Ok guys to recap - got about 85MB of flash movies to play one after the other to make an animation, my computer can't take the straing of having them all in the one library. Options please????

[cancerinform]

You need to learn to make some tests when things don't work like trace actions. I made an example for you.

[JimH16]

Thanks man - I understand the example - and really appreciate your efforts.
I'm not 100% sure what's up with mine. I'm exporting my movies from flash - maybe that's part of the problem, they're so big that I can't get them into the timeline to addd the movie commands.

Just out of interest - are there other means?

[cancerinform]

Make your movies smaller to fit the timeline.

[JimH16]

hahaha, cheers man. It's a 3d animation thing. if you're interested they're here:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...725E984EB6D341

Or anyone else for that matter.

[cancerinform]

You need to at least give the username and password.

Here is another solution, see attachment.

[JimH16]

Sent you login details.

[JimH16]

you mean adding the stop bit in the movie? trouble is my movies are direct outputs out of 3DMAX, meaning that I can't easily put controls on their timeline, hoping to do something with a parent file that doesn't need to alter the 'pieces'.

[cancerinform]

Here is another solution. You don't need anything in your MovieClip. On the main timeline put this script:

this.onEnterFrame = function ()
{
    if (mc._currentframe < 40)
    {
        movieEnd = false;
    }
    else
    {
        movieEnd = true;
    }
}; 

You need to know only the number of frames in the Movieclip. This is for B movie I attached.