amamo
08-21-2002, 02:15 PM
I'll give my scenario and then describe the problem:
I have a movie with 2 scenes so far, that uses a shared library for most of it's assets, particularly animated MCs.
The interface takes a narrative approach to navigation - eg. In the first scene/main timeline, I have a character who stands outside a castle. If you click on her or on the castle, the timeline jumps to a sequence of frames that animate her walking into the castle. An action in the last frame of this sequence jumps to the first frame of the 2nd scene, which shows her walking into the interior, then she stops (using a frame with the stop action). This all works fine.
To exit this scene, basically the same thing happens i.e. you click on her, the timeline starts a sequence where you see her walking out, then reaches a frame which jumps back to the first scene, but not to the beginning. I have set it up so that it starts at a certain frame (about halfway along the timeline) which has sequence showing her walking back to the starting position before jumping to frame 1 of Scene 1.
This bit works fine when I test the movie BUT in a browser window it refuses to play this short sequence of frames that start halfway through the first scene. It plays the first frame of the sequence then immediately jumps to Frame 1 of the scene.
As I said this only occurs in the browser, even running locally.
I've tried preloaders and this has made no difference.
Any ideas?
I have a movie with 2 scenes so far, that uses a shared library for most of it's assets, particularly animated MCs.
The interface takes a narrative approach to navigation - eg. In the first scene/main timeline, I have a character who stands outside a castle. If you click on her or on the castle, the timeline jumps to a sequence of frames that animate her walking into the castle. An action in the last frame of this sequence jumps to the first frame of the 2nd scene, which shows her walking into the interior, then she stops (using a frame with the stop action). This all works fine.
To exit this scene, basically the same thing happens i.e. you click on her, the timeline starts a sequence where you see her walking out, then reaches a frame which jumps back to the first scene, but not to the beginning. I have set it up so that it starts at a certain frame (about halfway along the timeline) which has sequence showing her walking back to the starting position before jumping to frame 1 of Scene 1.
This bit works fine when I test the movie BUT in a browser window it refuses to play this short sequence of frames that start halfway through the first scene. It plays the first frame of the sequence then immediately jumps to Frame 1 of the scene.
As I said this only occurs in the browser, even running locally.
I've tried preloaders and this has made no difference.
Any ideas?