Re: Maybe i am just stupid

[Marc Hoffman]

Without seeing your code, it's hard to tell where the bottleneck is.


Here's how I do the preload loop.  It doesn't require a new scene, just a

sequence of

frames. Note my numbers below refer to the order of frames in the sequence,

not

the numbering of the overall timeline. Labels are just the ones I've come

up with so

I have a consistent system from project to project:


1: Label: "preload check."   Action: If frame (label:start) loaded, go to

frame (label: start) and play.

2. Label: "preload loop."  This is where your preload loop begins.  Action:

play.

3. Label: "preload return." Place this at the end of your preload loop

sequence.  Checks if preload is done; if yes, goes ahead, otherwise, loops.

 Action: If frame (label: start) loaded, go to frame (label: start) and

play; End if frame loaded; Go to (label: preload loop) and play.


If your playback is hanging somewhere, you probably have a typo or other

code error.  I wasn't sure which of your frames hangs, but perhaps it needs

a "play" action.  Also make sure your commands are properly nested, as in

#3 above (you must "end if frame loaded" before looping).  This work is

pretty tedious sometimes, isn't it?  How many hours have I spent tracking

down little mistakes?


I like John C's idea:  make a movie that numbers every frame sequentially

and copy as much as you need onto the movie that's giving you trouble.

Color code if you're running several levels of movies.  Set the frame rate

low and watch the numbers as it runs.  That will tell you what frame is

hanging or dragging.


Good luck.


-Marc Hoffman



At 03:20 AM 7/10/98 -0400, you wrote:

>But would someone please mind telling me how to do a cool loading screen? I

>can get it to do the loading animation and loop it, but when I use 'if frame

>loaded' when that frame finally loads, it just sits there.

>

>As of now, this is what the code looks like:

>If frame loaded

>  Go to and play

>End frame loaded

>Go to and play

>

>The first go to and play is set to go to the next scene, the menu interface.

>The second one is set to go back to the first frame of the animation. But

>like I said before, when the frame finally loads (I am using a frame number

>of the third scene... just so I don't have to wait too long) it just goes to

>the first frame and sits there... arg!

>

>I know this is easy, but someone pleease point me in the right direction!!

>

>jason

>

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