tool for creating movie clips?

[conspirisi]

I've got a jpeg which I want to slice into loads of little squares and turn into movie clips. The idea being I can control all the squares now with actionscript.

this however is a pain to to do manually. Photoshop automates some of the process by generating a series of equal sized jpegs. I import them into a Flash library and this is where the difficult part begins. I turn them into movie clips by, time consumingly, indivually converting each jpeg.

Is there a tool out there to batch create movie clips?

[missweblash]

There are two ways to do this:

The first is to create all your little JPEG chunks and given them a structured name, for example: img_001.jpg ... img_099.jpg. You can then use AS (1 or 2) to load them in dynamically and also manipulate them dynamically.

Or, you can get clever with many instances of the 'whole' image and applying masks in the size of your smaller squares.

I believe there is a sexy way to do this in F8, but I've not had time to get my head round the bitmap handling yet (busy busy me!)


Cheers
Missy

[conspirisi]

thanks missweblash I think your 1st idea of loading in the seperate jpegs is the best way in terms of eliminating key strokes. thanks for help