Simple Flash Preloader
This tutorial will explain how to create a simple Preloader in
Flash MX 2004.
The download .fla is included at the end of the tutorial.
Please note:
1. You need to have Flash
Player 7.0 installed to view the Flash animation.
2. Flash MX 2004 must be installed in your system to download the
.fla file.
STEPS TO FOLLOW
Create a Movie clip.
- Draw a borderless rectangle.
If your color mixture panel is not open press Shift+F8 to open
it.
Select your rectangle, go to color mixture panel and choose linear
from the drop down menu.
Now change your linear fill accordingly, with white on right end
and your background color on the other end.
- Select this rectangle and press F8 to convert this rectangle
to a symbol. Name this symbol "Bar" and choose Graphic
behavior. Press OK.
- Press Ctrl+F8 to create a new movie clip for preloader effect.
Call it "preloader_mc". Choose movie clip behavior and
press OK.
- Draw a borderless zigzag as shown below on the first frame and
press F5 on the 90th frame.
- Insert a new layer and pull it below Layer1.
- Insert the bar graphic symbol into this new layer "Layer2".
- Adjust the height of the bar such that its height is equal
or little more than the zigzag height.
- Position this bar graphic as shown below.
- Press F6 on the 35th frame. Keeping framehead on 35th frame,
pull the bar graphic onto the other side of zigzag as shown below.
- Select any frame between Frames 2 and 34 and select Motion from
the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector.
- Select frame 40 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe on the
40th frame.
- Keeping the framehead on the 40th frame select bar graphic and
go to main menu,
Modify>Transform>Flip Horizontal.
- Select frame 85 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe on the
85th frame.
- Keeping the framehead on the 85th frame pull the bar graphic
symbol to its initial position as in frame 1.
- Select any frame between Frames 41 and 84 and select Motion
from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector.
- Select frame 90 and press F5.
Adding Preloader to your Scene1
- Now go to your Scene1.
- Insert 3 new layers.
- Drag "preloader_mc" from your library onto your working
area. Place it at the center of your working area. Press F5 on
the 2nd frame
- Type in "LOADING" on the 1st frame of your 2nd layer.
- Copy and Paste the below script in the action panel of your
1st frame of 1st layer.
ifFrameLoaded ("end")
{
gotoAndPlay ("start");
} |
- Press F6 on the 2nd frame of 1st layer and insert the below
script in the action panel of your 2nd frame of 1st layer.
Start your Main movie from the 3rd frame onwards.
Name the 1st frame of your main movie "start" and the
last frame "end".
Download the .fla file
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