Preview not working?

[TeriyakiNinja]

HEY BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER PROBLEM THAT I CANT FIX

So hey, I'm doing an animation right now where I intend to have several characters on the stage at one time, all of them with actions that specifically depend on the location of the other characters. Now, I'm using the symbols timeline for each character to do like lip-syncing and movement so that it becomes a lot less confusing. All of the symbols are of course graphic to be able to be played outside of the symbols' individual timelines and onto the main timeline.

My problem however, is that when I finish making an animation for a specific character using symbol timeline, I press play to preview the animation in the main timeline BEFORE rendering and it DOES NOT SHOW THE ANIMATION. It just shows the character frozen at Frame 1 with no sort of movement what so ever. The sounds within the symbol timeline aren't playing either. Idk, I probably am doing something wrong with the main timeline not previewing the animation in symbol timelines, but when I do Ctrl+Enter to render preview, it works! The animation plays! HOWEVER, quit out of the render preview and I'm back to having the same problem.

HELP PLEASE! IDK WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THIS! IS THERE AN EXTRA STEP THAT I SHOULD/SHOULD'VE TAKEN TO MAKE THE PREVIEW WORK?

[Colin Holgate]

The play button just does the same thing as pressing the enter key, it only plays what is actually animated in the timeline. If you have movie clips, which I think you do, those will only play when you press Ctrl+Enter.

When you're finished creating the final project, and you put it online for people to see, they will see it in the same way you do when your press Ctrl+Enter. So, it doesn't matter if you don't see everything when clicking the play button or pressing enter on its own.

Animate is not rendering an animation, it's playing it live, so doing a Ctrl+Enter preview will not create a rendered version that would work with just the enter key.

[TeriyakiNinja]

But the thing is, all of my symbols ARE graphics, which is how I was able to use the Frame Picker and everything. But the thing is, I really need the preview thing to work without having to press Ctrl+Enter and being able to put another character on top of what's being animated right now. Is there a way to do that?

[Colin Holgate]

Can you put an FLA online somewhere, that shows a graphic that animates with Crtl+Enter but that doesn't with just enter?

[TeriyakiNinja]

final2.fla

I believe that we have talked before about a different issue on this forum so you'll see almost the same images that I used last time. This time i was able to work the symbol timelines (which are under the only main layer in the main timeline), but I press enter and it doesn't work

if you can find out the problem and also send back a fixed version, that would be awesome if not just tell me what my problem is

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

Your top level character is a movieclip. If you change that to graphic the timeline scrubbing play button enter key ways of playing will be the same as Crtl+Enter.

[TeriyakiNinja]

OMG THATS WHY

THANKS AGAIN