VCAM inside of movieclips

[f0d]

having a little trouble right now

im trying to get my vcam to work within movieclips. i got rtil's custom made VCAM that was supposed to work inside of MCs, but it makes everything all off center

any ideas what i should do?

[Gerkinman]

I stopped using VCAM when i couldnt export the videos as AVIs

[Napalmgrrl]

having a little trouble right now

im trying to get my vcam to work within movieclips. i got rtil's custom made VCAM that was supposed to work inside of MCs, but it makes everything all off center

any ideas what i should do?

Hmm..I use two types of VCams, the one that Adam Phillips uses and the "animator" Vcam.  The Animator V-cam you can tilt and junk...Dunno if that's the one he gave you. That one made things look off center sometimes too.  Never tried it inside of an MC tho. Also it seems that if you do that it will prolly slow down the MC a bit.

[CoolDrMoney]

Seriously F0d, wouldn't placing things in like 2 seperate scenes make you like able to increase the frame limit? Like instead of havin one scene if you had two, the limit would be like 32,000? Or do I not know what I'm talkin bout?

[f0d]

scenes are horribly gay ive had awful experiences working with them in the past

movieclips would work just fine if the VCAM worked inside of em

[rtil]

having a little trouble right now

im trying to get my vcam to work within movieclips. i got rtil's custom made VCAM that was supposed to work inside of MCs, but it makes everything all off center

any ideas what i should do?

i have had this issue with the vcam in the past. i'm guessing what it's doing is it's pushing the actual frame down by about 100 pixels or so. whenever this happens to me, i take a screenshot of the scene in the swf, bring it into photoshop and measure the number of pixels it's off. then i go into the vcam symbol and move the frame down that number of pixels so i am seeing what it's actually going to frame. i dunno why it does this, but i have had this problem many, many times. this is the only way i know how to solve it. sometimes getting a fresh cam from the guy who developed the vcam for phillips off his site (dunno the exact url), that can help. but warning, when you import the camera it will be solid black box by default - this is cuz it's in an example FLA from one of phillips cartoons where it fades from black, and so the cam is black on the 1st frame with the 'tint' tool lmao. so just fix that before you start using it.

I stopped using VCAM when i couldnt export the videos as AVIs

crack magic swf2avi. supports AS, filters and MC's

no frameskip

[Napalmgrrl]

Here you go.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a//javascrip....html?page=last

[f0d]

having a little trouble right now

im trying to get my vcam to work within movieclips. i got rtil's custom made VCAM that was supposed to work inside of MCs, but it makes everything all off center

any ideas what i should do?

i have had this issue with the vcam in the past. i'm guessing what it's doing is it's pushing the actual frame down by about 100 pixels or so. whenever this happens to me, i take a screenshot of the scene in the swf, bring it into photoshop and measure the number of pixels it's off. then i go into the vcam symbol and move the frame down that number of pixels so i am seeing what it's actually going to frame. i dunno why it does this, but i have had this problem many, many times. this is the only way i know how to solve it.

ah yes this should work

thank you

[f0d]

fuckkkkk

i tried the photoshop method but the problem is after i move the camera frame the right amount of pixels, i have to go through to each individual keyframe of the VCAM's animation and reposition it back on the stage. i also have to reposition that little middle circle that appears when you're in free transform mode. its extremely time consuming and hard to do accurately

hmmmm i wonder if i could change something in the code to get it to work...

[f0d]

btw just for the record the VCAM im using right now is this:
http://www.thebackalleys.com/ok/public/CAMERA_MC.fla

i tried usin the original one from phillips and it doesnt work within movieclips. that one right there is supposed to work inside MCs, but it isn't for some reason

[rtil]

that's weird. if you edit the symbol itself, it shouldn't revert back to an old version of itself on a new keyframe. unless if you made a duplicate on accident.

you could probably edit the code to offset the Y translation for the camera in pixels.

[f0d]

it doesnt revert back to an old version. ill show you what i mean

first i figured out the cam was making the stage off center by 269 pixels down and 102 pixels across. i moved the camera frame inside of the VCAM movieclip those exact number of pixels so that it would match up. but after i did that, i had to go back to the main timeline and reposition the camera so that it would show the stage. since its all animated, i have to reposition each individual keyframe, which takes a long ass time

ah well i may just end up moving everything into place manually.

thats the thing about dailytoon 400. its by far the most monotonous shit ive ever worked on. ive spent hours on end just going through and renaming everyones fucking symbols lmfao

[adamant]

that's why they made graphic clips ;(

[f0d]

hm you think it would work if i converted all the MCs to graphics?

ill give it a shot i guess

[CoolDrMoney]

But wait...arent graphics like still? Or did they change something cause I thought you could only animate within movieclips

[sQueef]

But wait...arent graphics like still? Or did they change something cause I thought you could only animate within movieclips

you can animate inside graphics, they just don't work on things like stop(); frames.

But a cool thing about Graphics is that if you play from the Main timeline, unlike MC's, you can see the animation happening so it makes it easier for previewing instead of having to export everytime you want to see if our symbols are working right.

[f0d]

yeah so i cant use graphics cuz i need to use actionscript

and i tried manually repositioning the frame of the cam for each keyframe

its just not working the stage is off center no matter what i do

[LordZeebmork]

You might be able to change something in the Actionscript to get it to work. I don't know what though; I still have Flash 8 so I can't get at the CAMERA MC fla.

[f0d]

this is the code in a keyframe inside the VCAM movieclip

import flash.geom.Matrix;
import flash.geom.Transform;
import flash.geom.ColorTransform;
var copyrightNotice = "Copyright © 2006-2007 Sockpuppet Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved. http://www.reanimator.net";
var reanimator = new Transform(this);
var camera = new Transform(this._root);
var w:Number = Stage.width;
var h:Number = Stage.height;
this._visible = false;
this.onEnterFrame = function () {
this._parent.filters = this.filters;
var stageMatrix:Matrix = reanimator.matrix;
camera.colorTransform = reanimator.colorTransform;
stageMatrix.invert();
stageMatrix.translate(w*.5, h*.5);
camera.matrix = stageMatrix;
}

[rtil]

try replacing

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stageMatrix.translate(w*.5, h*.5);
with

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stageMatrix.translate(w*.5, (h*.5)-100);
and see if that changes anything