recreating logo in flash

razuel · #1 Nov 29th, 2006, 20:02

What's the best way to create this log in flash?

I need each piece to be separate because I want my preloader to be the half circle rotating around the middle circles (which I don't know how to do quite yet).

But I don't know how I can draw a half circle like that in flash.

JacobHaug · #2 Nov 29th, 2006, 22:35

The line tool, then bend the line...do you need me to show you?

razuel · #3 Nov 29th, 2006, 22:46

I tried it out, but for one.. the line is too thin.. I don't know how to make thicker lines. And for two, I bent it down, but it was just droopy.. didn't look like a half circle.. more like a smooth cone

JacobHaug · #4 Nov 29th, 2006, 23:59

I will post up some screen shots...give me a sec!!

JacobHaug · #5 Nov 30th, 2006, 00:06

Have you tired drawing a circle, then cutting off the top half of the circle? To make the line bigger change the stroke height in the properties panel, after the line is selected!!

razuel · #6 Nov 30th, 2006, 00:27

yeah cutting it in half works... i just didn't know how to change the thickness, thanks

now have any idea how to make the half circle rotate around the center circle as a pre loader

if you do, let me suffer through it for a day first to try and learn.

razuel · #7 Nov 30th, 2006, 01:39

so I tried making it rotate around the circle and came up with this,

www.jbscreations.com/random.swf

no clue how, but I kind of like it.

maybe you could point me in the right direction

JacobHaug · #8 Nov 30th, 2006, 16:36

Hmmm, not exactly what I was expecting, but I guess it will work. If you want me to play with it I will, just post the edit file up here, make sure to save it for Flash MX 2004.

Note: I am a bit of a perfectionist, so I might take some time...lol

razuel · #9 Nov 30th, 2006, 23:17

http://www.jbscreations.com/logo.fla

There's the part of the logo I want as the preloader. I want it to actually rotate around the circle.. not do what it did in the first thing I posted.. like a clock basically, get it?

well hopefully you can figure it out, thanks either way.

JacobHaug · #10 Dec 1st, 2006, 03:05

You have to save it for MX2004, I don't have flash 8 on this computer!!

razuel · #11 Dec 1st, 2006, 03:14

Okay, here it is again-- it's not how I want it to be now (the design) but if I can figure out how you did it I can do it myself

www.jbscreations.com/logo2.fla

JacobHaug · #12 Dec 1st, 2006, 03:44

Ok, I did not have enough time to be the usual perfectionist...but here is what I did...just enough for you to get the drift...some little bugs, but they should be rather easy to work out!!

http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/files/fla/logo2b.fla
http://www.jacobhaug.com/webforumz/files/fla/logo2c.fla

razuel · #13 Dec 1st, 2006, 20:26

I think I got what I want, but now how do I make this a preloader? The code tells my preloader to go to and stop every frame (by 1%) up until 100.. playing the loader animation. But what if I want an animation to keep playing rather than just filling a bar up.

JacobHaug · #14 Dec 1st, 2006, 22:24

Paste the code for the preloader up here...I will see what is going on...!!

razuel · #15 Dec 1st, 2006, 23:47

preloader_mc.onEnterFrame=function(){
l=holder_mc.getBytesLoaded();
t=holder_mc.getBytesTotal();
p=Math.round((l/t)*100)
if(p<100){
preloader_mc.gotoAndStop(p)
}else{
preloader_mc.gotoAndStop(100)
if(holder_mc._currentframes==1){
holder_mc.gotoAndPlay('in');
}
}
}

JacobHaug · #16 Dec 3rd, 2006, 03:21

Post up the loaders edit file, that way I can play with it, and see wither I can get it working. You can post it up in flash 8 if you want to. I am on another computer now...!!

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