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When a visitor clicks the 'Flintrock Coupe' button they jump to FRAME 5 and a 'movie clip' called 'coupe1' will appear on the 'Granite Display' tablet. It will be an animated 3D view of this engineering marvel from the Jurassic Age. New buttons will also appear beneath the 'Flintrock Coupe' button. The first three VCR style buttons will control the 'movie clip' and the 'shockwave' files (yeah, I am well aware that VCRs were not really invented until 63,450,985 B.C.). The three buttons below these will load 'shockwave' animations onto the 'Granite Display' tablet. The main advantage of doing this is faster load times because visitors will decide what information they wish to see rather than having to wait for the whole project to load.

Frame 5 of Fordstone_Cars.swf

Flintrock Coupe Gets a Spin
The first step was to add an 'action' to the 'Flintrock Coupe' button. When you click it the playhead jumps to FRAME 5 and stops - this is where the movieclip 'coupe1' is located. Now whenever someone presses this button the 'coupe' movieclip loops. I built my fictional car in 3D Studio Max 2.5 and rendered the frames using the Illustrator 4.1 plugin. I then imported the .jpg files into Flash and saved them as a 'movie clip' symbol called 'coupe1.'

Action script to play the 'movie clip'

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