Trail Blazing and Trail Death...

The begining of this week turned out awesome. I figured out how to add navigations to buttons and started work on our key frames. I managed to get the all to move and I thought it was fine, but it's stalls at each one of the buttons and with further tinckering to try to fix it the frames do something really weird. Looks like there's even more work to be done on it....I just can't seem to get this stuff. Our class decided to move onto animation too and I thought it was pretty easy all though I didn't really do anything to difficult. I made a flash video of a dog and put it on my social profile. I was happy how it turned out. I tried to make the introduction scene for our game today, but I couldn't get the little arrow to pan up and down or anything. The more I think of it the more factors that go into and the harder it seems....I have no idea how we're going to manage this, but I guess just one step at a time or what ever. We'll get this...eventually.

Navigation at last!!!!

After missing this class Monday and coming back to some new information I finally managed to get the buttons on our keyframes to move onto the next frame and stop! I'm so happy that it finally worked. It turns out that the action codes that were given to us on the wiki were for a different version of flas, 2.0. We're using 3.0, which gives us code snippets to use. I guess they're not all the same, but I'm happy everything finally got fixed. The work in here has been pretty hard recently, but when you get it you feel like you can take on a freight train or something. We started doddling around with animation today and I made a caterpiller move around the screen, which was pretty easy. Hopefully we can get started on this game and finish it if we work hard enough. I'm happy I also downloaded a free trial of flash so I can work on some of this stuff at home.

I really need to start doing these...

Recently I've been barely getting my learning log filled out, if I finished all of the ones required last week.
We've started making buttons for our frames, which I've mastered...kind of. I can easily make an interactive one, but to make them be abel to switch to the nextt frame is another story. I tried a bit, but I kept getting an error. I think I understand what I've done wrong, and I'll try to get every thing working. Hopefully just this one time I can finally have something I understand right away instead of having to go over and over things...just this once....

Friday.....

I'm not sure if I've gotten all the blog posts I needed for this week, but there's been a lot of things happening.
First we finally fixed our team wiki page. It turns out that the vidler code was what was messing up the time line. I guess it was the spacing or something, but we finally got every thing up and going.
I've also been told that my wiki page needed some type of decoration or something to make it more interesting, so I've uploaded a couple of pictures.
I also managed to put all the keyframes on the team wiki and made sure that it showed up and was sized correctly. Now all I have to do is get al these frames moving in a slide and read a tutorial about button creation.

I didn't get a blog post in Friday.

So, I guess I was to engrossed in trying to get all the keyframes onto the page wiki that I didn't keep track of time and I was only able to update my learning log. I finally got all 12 keyframes onto the team wiki page. The size problem I was talking about earlier was really easy to fix. All I had to do was change the width from 400 to 1000. That was the size we needed to fit the whole picture. I had trouble with the last three though. Even though I had both the fla. version and swf. version of each file uploaded and showing and I looked over the code I used about four or five times, finding no errors, it only shows a link to the flash version, but it doesn't show a picture. I also need to anwer the questions from "Adding a scene" into my blog. I also need to update my own wiki page with more information, pictures, videos, or what ever to give it more pizzaz! I have plenty of things to do today and probably the rest of the week. Hopefully there will be no problems.
Also, we have a half a day coming up this Wendsday so we will not be in this class. I think I need to stop being lazy and do some of this stuff from home or at least research it or something.

AH!! :D

So, we had to upload all the keyframes and thing to our team wiki page to show what we've been working on and I finally got it! It took forever, but there's finally picture up there. Sadly, however, we have a size problem. I'm going to have to try to fix that some how, but for now I'm living in the moment.

ARGH!!!

Yesterday I tried, and failed, at trying to get the keyframes into a controlable slideshow. I don't understad what I'm doing wrong, but I'll get this eventually. I think I'm going to go through the adobe video tutorials step by step again to try and make them. I have no idea what I'm doing....