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# boll
ox.

www.uk-cv.com/webthing/escalator.swf

i find this incredibly funny....for no apparent reason.
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:37, archived)
# you have impressive
flash skills. Well done ;)
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:39, archived)
# thank you.
but the steps loop extremely badly.....i keep telling myself it's supposed to be low-fi!!!
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:40, archived)
# Well ..
.. if you resize your window to 40x40 pixels (inner) it doesn't look too bad ;-)
(Snoop, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:43, archived)
# not
too bad, when it's tiny.

i take that as a compliment.
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:45, archived)
# SURE!
_cheezygrin_
(Snoop, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:47, archived)
# maybe
if it was kitten going up the esc?
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:49, archived)
# yay
send nohands up the escalator
(tasty, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:54, archived)
# nice work
i'm trying to get into flash a bit more.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 2:57, archived)
# flash
is easy once you get into it.

the hard part is keeping down the number of kittens.
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:01, archived)
# how do you get looping sections of animations
eg an eyeball spinning in an eye and a head bobbing, while other things happen and the whole head moves around the screen and gets bigger and smaller etc...
is there a term/technique for that? Or is it just a combination of lots of things?
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:04, archived)
# many
ways to skin a kitten.

you can use movieclips (little movies within a movie), load one movie on top of another...or just plan it out really carefully!!!

www.dswdesign.co.uk

sorry to spam...but here is an example of the planning technique.

(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:07, archived)
# cheers :)
I am very good at achieving things, but often i don't go about it the 'proper' way. i just find my own way of doing it which can sometimes be much longer and complicated or sometimes much quicker and leaner.
In this case i would have been doing the long complicated thing :)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:13, archived)
# results
are what matters.

don't give a monkeys chuff how you get there!!
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:16, archived)
# here
is a tutorial i wrote.

www.drystonewall.50megs.com/flash.htm ;)
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:27, archived)
# this
is for anybody still reading this thread.

www.drystonewall.50megs.com/arse.htm
(robotrobotROBOT, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:31, archived)
# woo to you
I'm just starting flash, thanks for the tips!
(I helped save b3ta! sosumi, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 3:53, archived)