Adobe Flash CS4: Virtual Camera (Action Script 2.0 & 3.0)

[Ouchimoo]

With this tutorial I built this camera and it works beautifully, however in the thing I'm making I want to have the scene rotate around (like a barrel roll) is there any script I can add to the camera so it has an up/down coordinate (if that makes sense) to do this?

[NERV0USMONKEYS]

Sry, where i find the script i have to copy in the actions?

[randyham87]

omg it works! thank you so much!



[MikeslyMontague]

When you start a project, do you have to click "Actionscript 3.0" or can you click "Flash Project" and then the virtual camera still works? Mine just shows the camera overlaying the scene

[EagleWingz7500]

erm.. megaupload doesn't work for my country..

[Smithy082]

Awesome :D Just wish i understood what the code meant ha

[GhostAnjo]

will this work in cs3?

[ramprire]

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error$/throwError() at flash.display::Stage/set x() at Untitled_fla::MainTimeline/cam­Control()

[ramprire]

same here fantastichumore

[fantastichumore]

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error$/throwError() at flash.display::Stage/set x() at newsscene_Scene1_fla::MainTime­­line/camControl()

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error$/throwError() at flash.display::Stage/set x() at newsscene_Scene1_fla::MainTime­­line/camControl()

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error

[milowerx]

Pretty dang cool! You should turn this into an extension!

[ComicYarn]

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error$/throwError() at flash.display::Stage/set x() at newsscene_Scene1_fla::MainTime­line/camControl()

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error$/throwError() at flash.display::Stage/set x() at newsscene_Scene1_fla::MainTime­line/camControl()

Error: Error #2071: The Stage class does not implement this property or method. at Error

[kakykun]

the movement of the camera in your tutorial makes me dizzy ... is difficult to follow with so much movement, but the tutorial is good. Try again when I pass the vomit T_T

[dragondelta2543]

must u pay for the action script download thing at ur description?

[teklinkme]

mine keeps flashing, why??

[8persap]

Great tutorial, just what I needed. I used the AS2 version, Works great.

Im working on a project where I have a static inventory bar and the bottom of the screen (1024x83px) . I want the vcam to only work on the upper, main portion of my stage (1024x685px). The script as it is currently applies to the whole stage.

I'm pretty novice when is comes to AS2. I had a little prod around your code, but could get it to do what I wanted.

Do you have any pointers for me on how I can achieve this?

[sniped2121]

theres no link

[animatingguy]

not helping me. when i tested the movie it was just the drawing of the camera shrinking

[MrFlashCats]

Hey there, how would I go about embedding this in say, 3 movieclips? I tried it, but it only worked for the movieclip itself and not the main root stage.

Thanks.

[kevina56]

I find you're tutorial complicating,and would it work with flash 8 cs3?

[lordvad3r]

thanks for this works fine ... if people are having issues then you have done it incorrectly .... just make a simple cam press f8 name it .. then go inside of the file f8 again on the whole cam set it to graphic click ok then add new layer and name actions copy and paste the action script 3.0 on the link in his video and paste it into the actions panel works fine

[MrPedrow01]

with me has errors

[sephirothrikusora]

It works. But um can someone pls tell me how to make static first, n then only the virtual cam start on motion. I noe this sounds like something that is easy to find out yourselves. but is not.....is frigin difficult. Pls, my assignment's due next week.

[itsChrisLife]

This was really usefull men!!! i make animations since ends of 2009 and i didnt knew that...i'll get better because of you.....THANKS MEN!

[TheOneAndOnlyFerados]

Thank you very much =]

[emanassef2000]

thanks a lot it worked with me on the timeline, but when i rendered it to swf, avi, there was a time lag, sound doesn't synchronize with the motion, can u help me with it pls?

[mudbeed]

Very good. I noticed that the camera properties don't work when exporting to AVI, but worked for every other export. Any reason why?

[it9001]

@mudbeed ya... i just got asked this question recently. The reason because avi container does not support movie clips. The solution here...or one I found to work for me atleast was to export your movie as a FLV video file rather than an SWF. Then using a converter of your choice, convert the FLV file into an AVI.

[mikeccuk2006]

@mudbeed

avi is a static media, swf and other ones are dynamic

[badasschickendude]

it worked for me, but when the camera moves in the animation, everything goes all glitchy. e.g. symbols move around randomly, colors change to alpha etc.

...any suggestions? great tutorial though. im sure this would have come in very handy.

[it9001]

@badasschickendude

hmm i have never encoountered that glitch... try to remake the camera.... what is the video ur zooming on as in is it flash animation or video?

[DepthOfMyBrain]

bullcrap

[Boudabang]

Nice one dude. Thanks for sharing. 5*

[mufferrs]

thats cool

[enocaw2]

awesome. good work making the script:P thnx for the tut BTW

[GunsForArms]

i wish i could shake your hand, beautiful work dude

[dodanism]

do u have ur yahoo messenger? pls add me so i can ask questions on u. here's mine, jordan_gomez01

[dodanism]

hi, i got one problem, when i save it as a movie, the resulting movie is not as the same the movement of the camera, instead it shows how the camera move in the scene.. how can i fix that?

[it9001]

well, it really shouldn't be doing that. Make sure you copied everything from the script and you made the camera exactly as it is shown in the video... if that doesn't work, then simply go to the properties panel and turn the opacity to 0 (transparent). But it should have worked... remake the camera... thats the first advice...

[Elimor]

thanks alot ^^ works perfectly, just what i was looking for :D

[Murciegaloco]

thanks man, very useful ;)

[HackParodieCheat]

You...........You can be sure than you will be in my credits on my next movie

[briancollazo46]

OMG FINALY i coulnt find out what it was called Virtual camra man why didnt i think of it earlyer thanks btw ALOT.

[chhapak]

thank you man, it helps me lot :)

[matthewtransformer]

Im way to lazy to draw that. im not joking you. can you just make a flash file with the vcam inside it?

[it9001]

i'll do it in action script 3... i'll send you a message... with the download link

[Gizmotrold]

DUDE !!!!!! DUDE ... SERIUSLY !! DUDE .......

ive been searching EXACLY FOR THIS !!!! OMG U ARE SO FUKEN AWESOME !!! NOW I CAN COMPLETE MY FLASH MOVIE !!!

can i please add u on msn ?

send on post

im a fan !

[Mistggg]

hey, I only have flash 8, and it has actionscript 1.0 ans 2.0, now if I copy the actionscript text for 2.0, will it still work?

[it9001]

yup... it will

[Mistggg]

THANKS MAN, I tried it, it worked fine, am really glad I finally learned how to make one of those V-cams, now I can make ma animation movies look smoother, thanks a lot man.. mad props.. am high ratin' this one, every1 should do so as well :)

[it9001]

thanks ;)

[TwisstamationShorts]

How do i make it transparent?

[it9001]

single click on the V-Cam Movie Clip. Then in the properties panel, you can adjuct a setting known as ALPHA (0 being transparent and 100 being opaque)

[Augmen1]

awesome tutorial!

worked perfectly

the camera worked fine for me on the top and bottom layer

[daynee3]

ok well i tryed it and it worked but when i try to make a camera in a document where i already have an animation done it wont work? Help?

[it9001]

is the camera on the top layer on the animation u have done?

[daynee3]

Yes

[it9001]

which version of actionscript are you using?

try remaking the camera in the same file as your animation... It should world really. I can't seems to understand why it isn't.

[it9001]

world == work...

LOL!!!

[daynee3]

Hey um when i render the the clip um my camera doesnt work like you see the camera but it not from the cameras point of veiw

[SwordSkill2]

Man you are a genius.. I wish I knew half of what you know...

[it9001]

haha... thanks... well... you'll know eventually... as you start doing more and more action script, you'll start picking it up really fast... you just gotta do a lot of it. Designing a simple game is a good way to learn actionscript inside out...

[SwordSkill2]

Do you know hot to make a movieclip when is being in hitTest to play a sound???

I tryed this: if(_root.mpla.hitTest(this)){l­oad(Sound)}

but didn't worked.. Do you know the code for playing sounds?

[DayiStorY]

Great man , what i want

i wonder how to edit the action script file so i can control the camera to move left and right

then zooms to specific point

[cartoonwar]

ashunscript three or ACTIONscript three? lol anyways thanks it helped

[it9001]

hahaha... ACTION... lol.... ^_^