98% there!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Uncategorized
I figured out a fix for the photo portion of the visualization screen. instead of dragging and dropping the thumbnails for each photo, you can click on the thumbnail and the larger photo appears as a movieclip which you can then drag and drop on stage. this makes the photo selection behave more like background and visualizer selections. For the visualizers, I have them set to appear at predetermined x, y coordinates rather than the user selecting where on screen they appear. I’ll want to show this to a few people to get feedback on which way to go about this.
for the remix screen, I FINALLY have something figured out. There has been so many problems I was running into with getting Flash (especially with actionscript 2.0, its easier to accomplish this with 3.0) to handle loading and playing multiple sound files. What I ended up doing is creating external swf files (such as nin_guitar_1.swf) which is a blank file with only the particular sound file added to the first frame. When you click a button, it tells the guitar variable to load nin_guitar_1.swf, and the main button calls up what is defined for guitar and then loads it. The only problem I’m running into with this is that it currently only works if I have it in the very same frame, where as now I have each selection as a frame in a movie clip. the problem lies with calling the variable from inside a separate movie clip. I know I could get this working if I had stuck with my original interface buttons rather than dealing with extra movie clips, but I’m hoping to figure this out so that I can use the easier controls.
after this stuff gets straightened away, all that will be left is adding additional photos and visualizers, adding the remaining remixed tracks (should only take about 1 day for each song), and adding in the additional songs (still shooting to have 5 included, I’ll keep adding 1 a day after completing everything else until the senior show).