Preloaders

[Furious5]

Ok I've just finished a flash movie and I'm just getting round to publishing it.

First off though I need to add a preloader, I've had a search round and found some tuts on preloaders and I understand the concept.

But my question is this, how does everyone integrate their preloaders in to their movies.

Do you just stick the preloader on a seperate layer at the beginning of the movie and then just set everything to start after this, or do you put the preloader on in a seperate scene or movie clip?

This is the first time I have published a flash movie, so I just want to get it right first time.

[Dave]

You can do preloaders both ways, you can either set it up on a layer at the beginning of the main timeline, or in a diffrent scene.

I normally place mine at the beginning on the main timeline in a seperate layer, i haven't encountred any problems so far!! :P

[lostinbeta]

I put mine in Scene 1 and have it play Scene 2

I have had no problems with that method.

I also find it easier to edit one or the other.


It is all dependant upon personal preference. Both ways work.

[Abraxxas]

Uuh...i usually set my preloader in the same layer as the movie, but the movie starts att frame2 and frame1 is my loader (with a stop-action of course)

[h88]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
I put mine in Scene 1 and have it play Scene 2

I have had no problems with that method.

I also find it easier to edit one or the other.


It is all dependant upon personal preference. Both ways work.

Scenes r so much flaky Lost! I use Frame Labels instead.

[lostinbeta]

It is all personal preference h88, it makes no difference if you put the preloader in a scene, or on a frame of your main movie, it all works the same in the end.

[upuaut]

personaly I like having a self contained movieClip that has all my preloader script in it. Then I just drop it into place and tweek it to suit the situation. As has been said though, it's all personal choice. I do tend to believe though, that certain kinds of setups work better or worse for certain situations. (though I don't believe that I can explain how that is)

[lostinbeta]

If you put it like that, believe it or not... I think putting it in another scene is probably the worst way out of all of them.

Worst or not, I am more comfortable with putting it in another scene, so since I am more comfortable with it, I choose it as my personal preference :beam:

[upuaut]

I think that it may work BETTER that way for certain situations. Certainly for organizational purposes a new scene is the way to go.