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another animation problem

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 2:11 am
by Greebo13
Hi all, I'm trying to do a skin with a sliding display screen animation, I've already gotten the animation sorted but the problem I have now is that I want the display screen to show title and time layers when closed, but track, artist, time, progress bar etc when opened. Does anyone know how I can tie these layers into the animation so that frame 1 of the animation has the 2 layers I want displayed and the last frame has all the information?

Any suggestions would be great.

Thank you

sliding screen

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 2:28 am
by xonenine
sounds like the kind of issues I encountered learning to build xtend - feel free to look at how I hid/showed the layers and cant wait to see yours. Have fun, xonenine :)

Re: another animation problem

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 3:10 am
by ALAS
Greebo13 Wrote:Hi all, I'm trying to do a skin with a sliding display screen animation, I've already gotten the animation sorted but the problem I have now is that I want the display screen to show title and time layers when closed, but track, artist, time, progress bar etc when opened. Does anyone know how I can tie these layers into the animation so that frame 1 of the animation has the 2 layers I want displayed and the last frame has all the information?

Any suggestions would be great.

Thank you


just add some action_layer_show or -hide command at the appropriate frame of your animation.

e.g. modify(xy) aclashow
the layer to be shown has to be named id(xy) ...

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 4:35 am
by SLoB
yep ALAS has it right, on the end of the animation layer you have bosh in the acla hide/show commands to hide/show your respective layers, give those layers the right ids and voila

Thanks

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 9:04 am
by Greebo13
Cheers for that guys, I've got it as good as I think I'm going to get it. There's still a slight problem with the skin when it's first opened but that vanishes once the animation is played for the first time...I'd appreciate any advice on solving this problem (but it's a minor one I can live with). The skin is for my little brother's waterpolo team in Ireland, and they all thank you guys for your help as well :D

Re: Thanks

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 4:25 pm
by ALAS
Greebo13 Wrote:Cheers for that guys, I've got it as good as I think I'm going to get it. There's still a slight problem with the skin when it's first opened but that vanishes once the animation is played for the first time...I'd appreciate any advice on solving this problem (but it's a minor one I can live with). The skin is for my little brother's waterpolo team in Ireland, and they all thank you guys for your help as well :D


.. it sounds like you should put a "paused" to the layer set. Then it starts playing only after some trigger command...

PostPosted: July 14th, 2008, 6:32 pm
by SLoB
either that or a dummy 1st layer with a stop, paused doesnt hit the spot 1st time and the 1st layer will play