Actionscript for Alternative endings to looping flash movies

[funkydreadman]

Hello can any body help.

I’m learning action script at the mo. But not getting very far.

I need some basic script

I’ve made a continuing looping movie that needs 4 different endings.
Effectively playing the first part over and over but each time it has a slightly different ending each time.

This is what is happening:

At the moment I have a series of photos that fade in and out with basic tweens using alpha channels.

At the end of the movie it turns to a bouncing ball.
(This is where I need help.)

At the end of the fading photos I need a simple bit of script.
So on the first
Loop the ball explodes
Loop 2 it deflates
Loop 3 it shrinks and vanishes
Loop 4 it cracks open like and egg.

I have the ball doing this action I just need the script so it goes to the right frame at the end of the appropriate loop.

I then want it to go back to the first loop and play the whole thing continuously.

Its not very exciting but it’s a project I’m doing and I’m stuck

I’m trying to keep the file size down so that’s why I have not just cloned the first part of the movie 4 times and jammed the different endings on each time so making one large movie.

Hope that made some Kind of sense

Can any one help

Rich – a.k.a Funkydreadman.

[Sgaspar11]

Hmm, ok lets see if I can get you in the right direction. You'll want it to do something like the following.

Set a Global Variable at the beginning of your movie, something like:

Var Ending();

At the start of all of your endings label them on a new layer called Actions. (i.e. Ending 1, Ending 2, etc)

RIGHT before the 1st ending starts. At the end of this create a script that does the following.

1. Checks the variable Ending, if Ending = ""(blank) then goto "Ending 1"
If Ending = Ending 1
Goto "Ending 2"
And so on...

2. Then at the end of EACH alternate ending you'll need to set the variable to the following on each respective ending...

Ending = "Ending 1" on ending 1
Goto (frame 1)
Ending = "Ending 2" on ending 2
Goto (frame 1)
Ending = "Ending 3" on ending 3
Goto (frame 1)
Ending = "Ending 4" on ending 4
Goto (frame 1)

I hope this gets you started in the right direction this is by no means the exact code - but more of an idea of how to get started. Afterall, figuring it out on your own is a lot more gratifying that getting all the answers and copy and pasting.

Cheers,
Scott

[funkydreadman]

Cheers Thank you so much for replying.

Rich