Widescreen rotating disc art + question for people who know Flash and SWF

[Blackened15]

Since spin animation on artwork through hypertheme can't be used properly when you set hyperspin to widescreen I decided to try to find a way around that.

I made a set of rotating swf animation for the Sega Dreamcast disc art for widescreen, dont use those if you aren't using widescreen, as the animation might make you dizzy

They are in my folder on the ftp:

/Upload Here/Blackened15/Widescreen 16x9/Sega Dreamcast/Images/Artwork4

Just put them in your artwork4 folder, and use a default theme that has artwork4 support, or modify one yourself. Make sure artwork4 is NOT set to "spin" in hypertheme, because that would rotate a rotating squashed for widescreen animation and might break the universe. Any animation that doesn't change the orientation of the artwork should be fine although.

The files are around 150kb per file, smaller then the original PNG, 30 fps, 2 second for a full rotation, 59 frame animation.

And now my question for the people who are used to Flash (this is the first time I've used flash or created an animation whatsoever)

The process to make these is pretty simple

1. Resize all your disc image to a common size, 400x400 in this case

2. Create the animation, including 75% width resize on every frame.

3. Publish it to discrotation.swf

4. Open discrotation.swf with Flash decompiler (from Eltima)

5. Swap the Image inside with another disc art lets say "game2.png"

6. Save as "game2.swf"

repeat step 5 and 6 until you run out of disc art. I know I could have done step 5 and 6 n Flash Professional, but doing it Flash Decompiler was much faster

My question is, how can I automate step 5 and 6. Is there a WORKING command line tool that will let me replace the image inside a simple swf so I can automate this through batch file, or an easy way to script the process in flash builder? I don't see myself doing the whole process of building the animation through script, as I wouldn't have a clue how to.

[Blackened15]

After a few hours of learning and trial/error, I finally managed to create a flash script that turns a folder of 400x400 png disc scan into a bunch of self-contained disc rotating animation *.swf properly stretched for widescreen

Edit: Change to V2, a bit less bumpy

4-3 PNG cd scan to WideScreen Rotating disc swf V2

[dark13]

This is terrific Can I add the script on png to swf thread?

Just curious, where did you find references for actionscript code? The biggest problem with flash is you can't record an action as you do in photoshop and in flash you can't see how a certain action is translated into actionscript.

About stuttering... well, flash sucks. Having a costant framerate is basically impossibile. Moreover on fast animation a bit of motion blur should be added to improve animation Slowing down rotation should make it better (but it would be a nightmare i guess, as far as i've seen that's a key-by-key script)

[masterofpuppets152001]

Yes you can post it in your thread. As for where I got the commands I am unsure what you mean. I just used google, which mostly took me to the Adobe page and used the list of auto-completion from the flash scripts editor.

[Blackened15]

sorry, post above is by me but I hadn't found how to switch login on tapatalk yet.

[Blackened15]

Also, in flash you can see the result of certain action in script. The History window provides that.