Dynamically Increase The Frame Rate

[kerospu]

In my interaction I'm asked to put a MUTE button which will chance the sound level to 0. When user mutes the sound the whole animation and the sound takes a long time to wait. I want to double the speed of the animation. So user wont wait for a sound to finish when he/she press MUTE button. I tought only increasing the frame rate would solute my problem because of the initializations of some actions in the middle of animaitons and stuff. I will put this MUTE button to the _level0 where my engine works. All animations are seperate swf files on the _level2 where I use loadMovie function to load upto the engine.

I couldnt find any function to increase the frame speed. I need to do it somehow.

I tried to on dummy document where no sound exists. when I load faster move onto _level0, it also works faster. But when I put sound into the loaded move, it works at the _level0 speed.

I need urgent help. Any ideas about the subject please write down.

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

Not possible to change the frame rate with actionscript, this has been discussed hundreds of thousands of times. The only way to "simulate" a changing frame rate is to make a tween longer or shorter than it is.

Eric

[oldnewbie]

What about these...

http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=832

Search for "framerate" here: http://www.flashcomponents.net/ -> FPS Controller v2

Or this old way, of doing it...

http://www.phoenix-blaze.com/flash/M...arch/day26.htm

http://www.phoenix-blaze.com/flash/M...rch/info26.htm

[kerospu]

I can see the is no way to directly change the frame rate but there should be some tricks as I tried to explain above. when you load faster frame rated swf onto your swf, both files work faster. but when you put sound in the faster swf and load, files work slower. I am actually searching this kind of trick that will make my swf work faster when user press the mute button.

[binkyboo]

// adjust speed here
speed = 2;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
    gotoAndPlay(_currentframe+speed);   
}

[kerospu]

Originally Posted by oldnewbie

What about these...

http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=832

Search for "framerate" here: http://www.flashcomponents.net/ -> FPS Controller v2

Or this old way, of doing it...

http://www.phoenix-blaze.com/flash/M...arch/day26.htm

http://www.phoenix-blaze.com/flash/M...rch/info26.htm

in the exapmle you give, the guy prepared swf s for each framespeed and when you enter a number, below code loads its swf which is impossible for my product

I tried the component yesterday and in its documentery it says in order to use the component everything should be in the movieclips and it doesnt work either.

[kerospu]

Originally Posted by binkyboo

// adjust speed here
speed = 2;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
    gotoAndPlay(_currentframe+speed);   
}

in this case movie clips on the root timeline dont work

[kerospu]

I was searching the posts and I realized I didnt write here how I solved my problem.

I made 2 .as files : addMC.as and removeMC.as . in the .as files there is only a function call like : _level0.addMC(this); and _level0.removeMC(this);
I'll explain why I used .as files later. For each MC I needed to increase the framerate, I included the addMC.as at the first frame and removeMC.as at the last frame of the MC. Let me tell you what addMC and removeMC functions does; they simply add and remove their name and their path together into an array which holds the MCs are gonna play faster. I wasnt sure before it worked and I might need to add more codes for each MC or not. Thats the reason why I choice to use .as files to avoide manipulating every MC again and again. Anyways, after knowing the MCs was gonna play fast, at _level0 I made another function which simply makes
gotoAndStop(_currentframe+1) for every element of the Array I added the names and ofcourse the root. With the interval I called this function and my frame rate was seemed to changed. My solution was a little tricky but at least it still works fine. I can send a sample file if someone needs is.

Thanx for all help and sorry for the late response. Peace!!

[flashfrog]

I am new to actionscript but I would like to see how you solved it.

[theMonseignuer]

I'd like to see this code as well