Motion Script questions

[Bob Hartzell]

The code is compiled inside the program. The script outside customizes the effect.

It is difficult to synchronize timing in action scripting with main movie frames. I suggest tweeking the number of frames/tweens containing the object with the effect so that it ends when you want. Then add your go to url or whatever on the last frame.

[w.brants]

In theory it would be possible to use KM Motion Scripts outside KM if you would create a compatible implementation.

There's three steps KM takes
1. KM breaks apart the text, converts each character into a movieclip and all those movieclips together into another one.
2. An 'engine' is added. It's the actionscript that runs the effects. To make it more difficult there are two engines. One is flash 5, runs all effects named effect.txt and was created by Hilary Bridel. The other one handles flash 6 - 8 effects named effect2.txt . Looping behavior, effect directions (normal flow, inner to outer etc.) and after image capability that some effects use are all handled by the engine.
3. The actual effect functions and user defined variables are added.

You might conclude the easiest way is to load one external swf file into the other one.