Changing the speed of a independant movie

[Schmee]

Can anyone help me on the above, I know it has to do with the 'Set Variable' command.

So far I've tried :

Set Variable : "speed" then speed + 20

Can anyone tell me wassup?

Thanks.

[StuartW]

You don't specify what exactly you're trying to do.

Are you trying to change the speed of another.swf that you have imported into your main .swf?

or

Are you trying to change the speed of the movie you're in?

I assume the first?

In Director there is a movieTempo command which Flash doesn't seem to posses, however, I could be wrong.

A basic way of doing it would be to set the current frame to count up by a factor

i.e 1 for 1x speed -- this plays frame by frame
2 for 2x speed -- this skips every other frame

See how it works?

Regards,

Stu

[Schmee]

Thanks for replying, I'm trying to change the speed of the movie that I'm currently in (or once on my main scene stage), without changing the overall speed of the whole .swf.

Can you help??

Thanks.

[StuartW]

Sorry, I'm feeling a little dumb here, I still don't quite get what you mean?!??!

You are playing your main movie at a certain speed which you don't want to change.

BUT

You want to change the speed of a movieclip .swf that you have imported into your main movie.

Is this right?

Or is it the other way around.

Sorry,

Stu

[Schmee]

I'm probably not explaining myself properly, my fault....

What I've got is my main movie running at 25 fps and I have a text movie (my imported .swf) that I wish to have running at less than that.

Like what you mention with the movie tempo command in Director...

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[StuartW]

Hmmm,

Cool. I finally get it, feeling a little less stupid now.

Right this is going to be an easy one, unless you want to change the speed of the swf from with in the 25fps movie.

Basically just set the speed of you .swf to whatever you want because imported MC's will play at there set speed regardless of the speed of the original movie.

However - if you want to dynamically change the speed of the imported swf, that's a different story.

Regards,

Stu

[Schmee]

Forgot to say thanks for help me out on this one, helped me out loads.

Cheers.

[StuartW]

Anytime

Cheers

Stu