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export the animation as a swf, then miport it back into your original flash file, this should give you step by step animation

I have a text box set to a password, but i want the charachters to be replaced by a * when the user types something in. Any ideas

Ok I have a big problem here.

I am supposed to be writing a kind of text editor in Flash, so i got all the load and save to an external file stuff working fine, using asp. But now i have to a bit...

For some reason flash won't let you link to scenes within a movie (don't know why, maybe flash 5 will) a way to get round it is to have the buttons linking to a frame on the main timeline. make the...

There is a way round this problem.

from the button in the movie clip link to a frame in the main timeline that will never normally be reached.

Then on the main timeline choose the frame that...

Scenes can only be linked to via the main timeline.
Are you putting the on release action within the actual button? If so goto the main timeline and click on the button, then go modify/instance and...

To make a movie clip control scenes you have to label frames on the main timeline which will never be reached normally. then within this frame make it link to the scene that you ****t to go to.
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You have to aquire a plugin called vecta3d-max which exports animation to swf. Another way is to render every frame to a bmp and import them into flash, then you have to trace and fill over the...

That worked a treat

cheers geez

Al

Here's the deal.

I have 2 scenes, the first scene contains a movie clip, which inturn contains a button, when the buttonis released it sets a variable called text to a number between 1 and 10.
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When opening a 3DS file in Swift you can't change the szing of it. becaus it can't edit individual nodes. This editing has to be done in a 3d Modeler such as 3D Studio Max.

What i normally do is...

Thanks for the help guys.

I managed to do it using the control movie.
It was a bit complicated because both the movie clip, and the movieclip within it, both had to be running backwards. And then...

Right Here goes.

I have a rotating menu consisting of 3d boxes, now when one of the boxes is clicked on, the whole menu spins down to the bottom left hande corner. ( this is achieved by using lots...

When you import a flat image into Swift it normally gives the object a depth automatically.

Try selecting the object then in the top left of the screen look for sizing option, from here you can...

It's OK figured it out.

I knew it was staring me in the face.
I just linked to frame hat wasn't being used in the main timeline and made that frame lint to the knew scene.

Cheers anyway guys
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I am trying to link to another scene, not the main timeline. I might try creating a seperate movie for each scene then loading them onto different levels. will I then be able to link load the mvies...

This isn't an answer but another question.

I didn't even know you could use transparent backgrounds,
please explain.

Cheers

Al

Hi Guys, wonder if you can help me.

At the moment I have a rotating menu system, which is a movie clip, all I want to know is if there is a way of linking to another scene from within the movie...

How do i get hold of Vecta3D, at the moment i am hand tracing and it takes too long. I would like to try it out before i put any money down.

Cheers