Thoriphes- Bubble Movie

[sidky76]

hi upuaut8,
i'm not really sure but i believe you're the author of that bubble movie that was showcased in one of the postings here like a month or two ago. i'm just wondering if you're gonna make a tutorial on that one. we'll all be glad to make a very fine movie like that. showed it to my two-year old niece and she was extremely delighted. she even tried to touch 'em. of course my monitor became messy with fingerprints afterwards.LOL.
ciao.




<<edited the header only, to give Thoriphes credit where credit is due..;) >>

[kirupa]

Hey sidky76,
That animation was created by thoripes, and he is currently using it as his footer. I believe that thoripes mentioned that he used sin (the trig function) to create the movement. I wouldn't mind hosting a tutorial on it if thoripes is interested ;)

Cheers,
Kirupa

[asmodias vise]

is there any where we can go for a quick look into the trig function itself or do we need to just harrass thoriphes untill he breaks?

[sidky76]

is thoripes still around?
i haven't got to see him post a message lately.

[thoriphes]

yes i'm still here, just really busy cause of school and all...senior HS is a ******! anywho...i try to answer what i can, but i really don't have time to post to everything like i did over the summer :)

anyway, sure i'll put up a tutorial soon on the bubbles. the random letter cycling was a big hit as many people e-mailed me about it, so i think a bubbles one would be good as well!

oh and btw...the url for that movie is here:
www.freewebz.com/thesquar...bbles!.swf (http://www.freewebz.com/thesquaresages/bubbles!.swf)
just in case you wanna see it again.

[Vts31]

Nice movie indeed

[sidky76]

since you mentioned about it, i modified the code to come up with a random number cycling. the code went like
this

onClipEvent (load) {
go = true;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (go) {
x = random(9);
this.number2 = x;
}
}

when i publish the movie as an exe the cycling would work but it won't work when the movie is published as swf. any idea?

[upuaut8]

Ahh.. my reputation is thoroughly unwarrented.. Thoriphes is DA MAN!! along with a few others around here. I am but a grasshopper. ;)

Glad you got the info though.. I was going to ask about the math on that one as well. Thanks for the link Thoriphes.. I'll be doing that tut myself.

[thoriphes]

first off, you should random(10) since it goes through the numbers 0-9. 10 is max and the number it won't do. ex: random(20) will do 0-19.

anyway, is x a dynamic text? if so, is the button in text options that has "123" clicked?

that should fix your problem.

ps, when i first came to this forum, i was just like all of you: curious of what flash can do. i just experimented, copied some code, understood it (eventually), then became what i am now. upuaut8 and everybody else, your help is always appreciated here.

[sidky76]

i think my flash program has an attitude problem. LOL.
i was about to try your remedy when i opted to try publishing the movie as swf again. but this time the random cycling worked! and without me editing anything yet. nevertheless i took your suggestion on the random(10).

btw, since i'm already on it, how do i set the formatting of a the displayed dynamic number (note: i post this question on another thread)? say, i want a specific number of digits displayed for a counter that goes from 000001 to 999999. is there a command/code in flash which will enable me to fix the number of displayed digits?

i know this will be too much but if you guys can direct me to a tutorial on how to format a dynamic text/number into something that works like a timer instead of just plain counting (something that counts by sixtys, e.g. 00:01:59 is followed by 00:02:00) i would greatly appreciate it.

thanks again guys.


p.s.
of course everyone here knows upuaut8 is one of the great minds here. u should see the flash on my welcome page hawthorns4u.iwarp.com. (http://hawthorns4u.iwarp.com.) it was inspired by your footer.

[thoriphes]

my best suggestion would be to make several dynamic texts with a normal text (":") in between the hour/min/secs. and to format the text, first make the field big enough, then give it an adjustment (under paragraph tab of text).

[kirupa]

The DNA-like animation is really cool thoriphes. Btw, I do apologize for having misspelled your name. It is spelled thoriphes instead of thoripes :)