4 buttons that lead to the same place, then separate

confusing subject for a confusing problem! :)

i have one scene with 4 buttons. what i WANT to have happen is, no matter which of the buttons you click, A, B, C, or D, you automatically go to frame, say, 500 of the scene.

at frame 500, a little animation plays.

when the animation is complete, you're sent to a different scene, depending upon what button you originally clicked. button A would send you to scene A, button B to scene B, etc.

but all of those buttons must first pass through the same frame 500 of scene 1.

its annoying and ridiculous, and sounds like it could be avoided or duplicated, but because of fluid animation in this case, it cant :(

any help?

I'm actually looking for something very similar.

Hopefully someone can help!

is it even possible?

sure it is :)

Create a variable when you press any of the buttons.
When you reach the end of the animation on frame 500 you use a little check to see what's in the variable and then decide to which frame to go next to.

example

frame 1:
buttonClicked = "A"

frame 500:
if (buttonClicked == "A") {
gotoAndPlay(100);
} else if (buttonClicked == "B") {
gotoAndPlay(200);
} else if (buttonClicked == "C") {
gotoAndPlay(300);
} else if (buttonClicked == "D") {
gotoAndPlay(400);
}

heya mediamonkey! :)

im not exactly sure i understand that, but lemme detail what i tried in an attempt:

in frame 1 where the 4 buttons are, i gave each an instance name, A,B,C,D.

then, in frame 500 i entered this code into a frame:

if (buttonClicked == "A") {
gotoAndPlay("scene3", 1);
} else if (buttonClicked == "B") {
gotoAndPlay("scene4", 1);
} else if (buttonClicked == "C") {
gotoAndPlay(300);
} else if (buttonClicked == "D") {
gotoAndPlay(400);
}


buuuut... that still doesnt work. what'd i mess up here?

doh!

waitaminute, i got it! :)

the buttons cant just have instance names, they gotta have the variable put into the release action. phew!

i'm up and running now -- thanks for the help mediamonkey!