zooming navigation interface

[emergency_pants]

Hi,

Can anyone shed some light on a zooming navigation system.

A simple example is the one relevare have devloped for their site at http://www.relevare.com

Another nice example can be seen at http://www.saturday-london.com/

I'd like to create a system different to these, but similar enough that I'd like to know how these are done.

At a guess, I would say that the whole system is a set of embedded movieClips. Each child movieClip has a set of properties, which are passed to an enterFrame function. The function has two or three stages:

The main movieClip is rotated.

_xscale, _yscale, scroll to correct position.

Can anyone tell me for sure that this is how it is done? Maybe there are some eg FLA files somewhere? Or do you have some code hints you could share? I could start this from scratch, but some source code would definitely save me some head scratching and problem solving in the first instance.

[Dylan Marvin]

I think you're already headed in the right direction. Don't know about ready-to-go source code for a "zoom" site, did you check around for tuts? (Here's another great little zoom example for you):
www.sofake.com

[Tink]

heres a quick file i knocked up for ya

[emergency_pants]

Thanks, Tink. That's really good. I've already got a working version sorted now and have a prototype knocked-up. But your version uses much less code with the Tween class. My version doesn't use that, so I think I'll try and use your e.g. as a base for improving my existing movie.

Nice one... thanks! :)

Here's what I have done so far... it's coming on well:
http://www.memestudio.com/actionscript/zoomer/
Dylan... thanks for the cool links... saofake do good flash work! :cool: