This is going to show how rusty I am with actionscript.
In the music video I didn’t remember how to play an animated movie clip within an already playing movie. I thought that I needed to do something special. So I’ve been reading tons on actionscript and I’ve been thinking to myself, “Man, why is this so complicated? I don’t want to be thinking about boolean stuff right now. I just want my damn sun to shine!”
I’ve been looking on forums for 2 days and reading tutorials and nothing has helped. Until I finally just read the online manual for actionscript and I got to one point and realized that the:
“sun1a.play();” command actually wouldn’t display any animation while I was still inside flash itself. I needed to export or at least do a test render of the movie. And when I ended up doing it and rendering it it worked perfectly. And the real laugh was that the time needed to save my project dropped from 40 seconds per save with a soft hang to about 4 second save. That’s when I literally laughed out loud.
Sometimes the simplest things can make a huge difference. I can’t believe I forgot that.
-Tyler