animated book

[sneezy]

book animation

At the moment I'm trying to produce a simple low memory book flicking animation (ie the pages move backward and forwards) but not sure where to start!

Anyone got any sugestions.

Thanks in advance

[farafiro]

Right now (with flash 5), a bit hard, but u can simulate it with another animation program such as Animation Shop and Import it with flash, convert it to bitmap and proceed

[pixelwit]

I've attached a file which shows a "low memory" way to flip a page.

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[pixelwit]

Or with the new FlashMX you can do it like this:
http://www.pixelwit.com/flip/PageFlip.html

Just showing off, ;)

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[farafiro]

Hey Pix, u never Give up
2 months old is that thread's age heheheheeeee

so no where is the source file??

[pixelwit]

Well I saw the PerfectFools.Com site and decided to try to replicate the effect. I figured out a slightly different way to do it then made it all work with nothing but script (well almost, the button graphics aren't scripted). This means I can change things like page quantity, size and color just by setting a few variables (talk about ultra-useless).

Regarding the code... I'm waiting to see what sort of contest Jesse might have in store for the future. Maybe I'll find a use for this thing after all. :)

By the way, did you like the effect? Was it convincing?

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[farafiro]

Originally posted by pixelwit
By the way, did you like the effect? Was it convincing?
-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

Yep, I did
it's a very good effect and what u did also very amazing.
Me too I wanted to do it after I saw the Fool's one but I'm lazy here as I don't work in that career so I postpened it to another time.

But u know, I will wait 'till the contest and get it from you ..... hehehehe
Check the flashmove.com they have a contest right now

[sneezy]

Hi I orginally posted the message, and it would be great to see what you came up with. Unfortunately I can not see anything when I click on your link.

If u could let me have a look that would be great!

[farafiro]

sneezy
Have u installed the V. 6 Player

[pixelwit]

The source is now available here: http://www.actionscripts.org/showMovie.php?id=459

It's pretty easy to make it work with your own content.

Hope you like it,

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[Cremulator]

I have to say that looks great.
And to see how its mostly done with code, was very interesting....not that I understood much of that code.....but its sheer volume was impressive :D

You have clarified a lot of peoples (myself included) questions on 'how the hell was that done?"

good stuff

[farafiro]

Originally posted by pixelwit
The source is now available here: http://www.actionscripts.org/showMovie.php?id=459

It's pretty easy to make it work with your own content.

Hope you like it,

-PiXELWiT
httpP//www.pixelwit.com

Thx PIX

[Billy T]

Pixelwit you are a freak - that is a very impressive effect

btw you need to check the url in your footer ;)

[pixelwit]

Surprised you're just now seeing it, it was a contest winner.:)

The "P" has been removed.

Thanks,

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[Billy T]

I never even knew there was a contest :rolleyes:

nobody tells me anything around here *sulk sulk*

;)

[farafiro]

hey
here is a new version of this, but the cool thing is when you press the page's shortcut in table of contents, it flips the page automaticly

[pixelwit]

Did you forget a link or something Farafiro?

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[farafiro]

Oooops, what a fool I am

sorry Pix, here it's, I found it on the FED's web site

http://www.agettogether.net/

[pixelwit]

You mean the Friends of Ed site (FOE)?

Seems you're having a rough day. :)

-PiXELWiT
http://www.pixelwit.com

[farafiro]

yup, a very hard day, need all the prayers you can :D

[leslienord]

This is fabulous - but I feel dumber than a box of rocks - but I can't even figure out where to add images. Is there a tutorial or should I just step away from the keyboard?

Thanks!
Leslie

LOL - I even dumber than I thought - I figured it out...wait, I'm not dumb - I'm blonde!!!!

Leslie

[farafiro]

Originally posted by leslienord
LOL - I even dumber than I thought - I figured it out...wait, I'm not dumb - I'm blonde!!!!

Leslie heheheheh
leslienord
welcome to the forums

[gorilla2]

I see how to change and add images... How, though, would you pull images dynamically out of a directory?
G

[dataReader]

I am started to learn flash and I think I got some of the basic down but some of these code aren't clear to me just yet. Maybe some one can explain them to me. This is the code from PiXELWiT's www.PiXELWit.com and the source I download it from
http://www.actionscripts.org/showMovie.php?id=459

OK. Here the following code which I dont really understand yet.
He created a movie then attach the Movie. Based on movie in the source file is "print1" , "print2" and up to "print8" but he is attaching the Movie with print+3 everytime??? I am so confused and when I replaced all the "print" movie clips with my own images. They came out so big and never in the boundary. Can anyone explain some of the function from the source file? Thanks for your time.

function setStationary() {
// Place the "S"tationary "L"eft "P"age
createEmptyMovieClip("SLPage", 1);
if (flipPage!=1.5) {
makePage (SLPage, -1)
SLPage.attachMovie("print"+(flipPage-1.5), "Print", 1);
with (SLPage.Print) {
_x = -pageWi/2;
_y = -pivotY;
}
}
// Place the "S"tationary "R"ight "P"age
createEmptyMovieClip("SRPage", 2);
if (flipPage!=maxPages-.5){
makePage (SRPage, 1)
SRPage.attachMovie("print"+(flipPage+1.5), "Print", 1);
with (SRPage.Print) {
_x = pageWi/2;
_y = -pivotY;
}
}
// Place shade on page not being revealed
var targ = dir>0 ? SLPage : SRPage;
targ.createEmptyMovieClip("Shade", 2);
makeShade(targ.Shade, -dir);
}

[Erik Sternberge]

Hey, pixelwit, I am working on an idea with the page turner that loads in video using the streaming component in MX 2004 but the page flip doen't export correctly with Flash 7.

I didn't know if you had encountered any issues with Flash 7.

Video loads in normally just fine otherwise.

Thanks!

p.s. I really dig a lot of the experiments on your site, man.

[rustybones]

Talk about rehashing an oldie, but I"ve got all of the pages turning etc, all I need to know how to do is turn a hard cover (since it does'nt bend) and how to jump to different pages via a table of contents ?

[baby_annie]

Didn't see anything about page flip on the link:
http://www.agettogether.net/
???
lol, the thread ended last year :eek:

[JRBT]

Greetings,

I happened to be playing with PixelWit's little book yesterday and I seemed to be unable to add additional pages beyond the original 8. I modified, the AS to set the number of pages allowed to 10, created to fresh new clips modeled after the original 8, named the instances "Print9, Print10" and even went into the library and had the clip export into frame 1 as the others do, yet when I test the movie, I get an error in one of the "with" statements and only blank pages.

Has anyone added additional pages to this book? Could someone be so kind as to perhaps enlighten me on the missing piece of the puzzle?

I love you guys!!!

[Ruben]

Well, last monday one of my teachers informed me that I hadn't given her one of my assignments so I downloaded Pixelwit's sample, adjusted it and [most important :p] made her very happy...

Anyways, I didn't have any troubles with adding more pages....This is what I did:
- I went to the boundPages-clip and changed the 'maxPages'-variable;
- I added some blank keyframes on the 'Prints'-layer on the _root-timeline;
- I copied some of the excisting prints-clips and named them 'Print9', 'Print10', well, you get what I'm saying...;);
- I also set the linkage-settings for the new clips in the same way as those for the excisting ones;
- Then I placed them on the right frames on the 'Prints'-layer;
- The last thing I did was giving the clips the right instance-names...

That was all I did and things worked out fine for me, THANKS PIXELWIT!

NOTE: I'm only telling you what I did, I'm not saying that all of the above is nessecary NOR am I telling you that things will work out for you as well ;)

Good luck - Ruben

[faerie_talez]

Could you possibly make 1 of these for Flash MX??? pweeeez????

[Ruben]

Sure you don't wanna use pixelwit's sample? It's FMX :o

http://www.actionscript.org/showMovie.php?id=459

- Ruben

[faerie_talez]

ahhhhh... wahhh... i dunno what's wrong... it works when I mess with it up until i try to get it to work with flash 7 :( hmmm..... so, i'm really new to this how should i go about trying to get it to work???

[ShezB]

This is fabulous - but I feel dumber than a box of rocks - but I can't even figure out where to add images. Is there a tutorial or should I just step away from the keyboard?


So sorry to revive a long dead thread (and with my first post too!) but I am dumber than Leslie - and can't work out at all how to get my pretty pics into this fab piece of coding. Obviously way beyond my poor flash skills. Can some kind person please give me a step-by-step breakdown? I've done all my flash lessons and tutorials, like a good girl -lol- but they weren't much help. Have been trying to find some sort of tutorial for days now, but all I find is downloadable scripts, not much use when I don't know what to do with them.
I'll go back to playing with it now, and hope someone takes pity on me!
Thanks ever so
Shez.

[sparkyuk]

So sorry to jump on the old thread aswell - but im being driven crazy :) How do you add extra pages? Ive gone through an earlier post and it cant get it to to work :( Could someone please give me a dummies guide on how to do it?

Thank YOu very much :)