Fading Up Mulitple MCs

[the_ville]

Hi all

I have a range of movie clips on the stage that I want to fade up one after the other - to build a bar chart.

I have used the transition function to fade one clip but I'm having difficulty detecting the end of that first fade and subsequently starting the next.

Everywhere I look seems to have a different approach using similar but different code. Any help would be appreciated.

[dmb85]

Theres a super easy way to do stuff like this, its called TweenMax / TimelineMax. You can download the AS3 version here.

Then lets say you have a movieclip on the stage called mcContainer, which contains 10 other movieclips that you want to fade up. With TimelineMax its done like this:

var tempChild:MovieClip;
var tl:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax({paused: true});
for(var i:int = 0; i < mcContainer.numChildren; i++){
   tempChild = mcContainer.getChildAt( i );
   tl.append( TweenMax.from( tempChild, 0.5, {autoAlpha: 0, delay: i*0.1} ) );    
}

//Then you can play the timeline similar to a movieclip:

tl.play();