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July 31, 2018
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VERY new to animate, bit stuck with loop

  • July 31, 2018
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Hi, I've been using Illustrator / PS / indesign etc for about 25 years but Animate CC... about 3 hours lol

So I've watched the basic tutorial videos, but something I'm trying to do I just can't make work. I've got a movie clip nested into another clip on the main timeline, and it's looping. I want it to play once, then stop. Earlier on in going through the tutorials, a thing appeared in the asset properties that said 'loop' and I had the option to have it looping, play once or choose frame. That didn't work first time so I tried approaching it slightly differently, and now I can't even find the 'loop' options. Even finding those options again would be a bonus, if not finding those then telling me how to stop this thing looping would be awesome. It's a 10 second animation in the end so at the moment I've just made the nested clip 20s long and got the bit I've moved hidden off screen, but that is obviously a bodge.

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    Correct answer avid_body16B8

    I don't think I've structured it quite right yet Myra, It's quite a shock coming from static imagery to animation I have to say! I've tried setting it to loop once on each level now, it still just loops like crazy. A bit lost but will keep going!


    Sample here.

    Movieclip 1 - has several colored frames - this.stop()  on the last frame

    Movieclip2 inside Movieclip 1 - has this.stop() at the last frame

    Hope this helps.

    sample.fla - Google Drive

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    Myra Ferguson
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    Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 31, 2018

    Change your movieclip symbol to a graphic symbol in the Properties panel, and you'll get the loop/play once/single frame options back. Or you can use the movieclip with the stop command, but you'll find graphic symbols can be helpful if you want to scrub through your timeline to see your animation.

      Davince.net
      Davince.netAuthor
      Known Participant
      July 31, 2018

      Myra is there any disadvantage to using graphic symbols? All the tutorials I've been following always seem to use movieclops and I'm yet to work out why. Thank you!

      Myra Ferguson
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      Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 31, 2018

      Here are some of the differences between movieclips and graphic symbols:

      If you want to add actionscript, then you would want a movieclip instead of a graphic symbol.

      A movieclip plays independently of the timeline where it's placed, so it could actually be in a singe frame on the main timeline and play completely through when you play it but only show the first frame when you scrub through the timeline.

      Filesize-wise, movieclips are slightly bigger, if that's a concern for you.

      If you put an animation that's inside a graphic symbol on the main timeline and extend the number of frames so that it all shows up in the main timeline, you can scrub the timeline to see your animation.

      avid_body16B8
      avid_body16B8
      Legend
      July 31, 2018

      I am fairly new too but are you working with AS3 or HTML5 though not sure it makes a difference.

      I personally put this.stop() at the end of the movieclip so it stops at the end and does not start again.and this is for canvas. the stop might be different for AS3.

        Davince.net
        Davince.netAuthor
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        July 31, 2018

        Than you Resdesign. When I say I'm new... where do you put 'this.stop()' in? I've seen that before when searching but couldn't work out where to put it. BTW it's a HTML5 canvas

        avid_body16B8
        avid_body16B8
        Legend
        July 31, 2018

        if you choose to do that it would be at the last frame of your movie clip.

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