movie of text rolling -- like movie credits

[zzyzxxroadgirl]

Does anyone have experience with the following and will take the time to help out this newbie? I want to move text from bottom to top -- like the credits at the end of a move. What is the best way to do this? :confused:

[red penguin]

Slap all that text into a clip and then pu this on the _root:

mov_endcredits.onEnterFrame = function(){
this._y++;
};

[annexion]

Actually it would be y--, the text should be going up like in the movies...Less of course you are watching it upside down, in which case the above would be correct. :p

[zzyzxxroadgirl]

thanks for both your replies.

i did try this but it's not working for me. (probably due to my limited knowledge!!).

the text did not move up -- it was stuck at the bottom of screen and kept blinking on and off.

any suggestions?

[linckx]

you might try to motion tween it:

make a graphic of your text, put it on the first keyframe (can be any other, just for the example;)), and make a keyframe a little further. On the first one you put the first position of your text, on the second your last position.

Then right click the 'in-between-frames' and select 'create motion tween'.

voila!

robin

[zzyzxxroadgirl]

i tried a motion tween at first, but wasn't getting the nice smooth motion that i wanted. so then i thought to get a smoother roll it needed to be an action script.

[linckx]

well in that case the scripts above should do just fine :)

robin

[annexion]

How and where are you placing the actionscript?

For the above actionscript, your text needs to be in a movieclip, and that movieclip's name needs to be mov_endcredits. The, place the above actions in the first frame of the main timeline.

Sounds like you have more than one frame to the movie for your text... In that case, get rid of the extra frame.

Good luck.

[red penguin]

Good call there on the y--. My bad....

But yeah...should work if all is correct as annexion has specifically said. If you are still haveing trouble, post a file.