"A Boy, a Pig, and a Mac" Episode #3 is out!

[LimeiBook86]

I have finished another Episode, I hope you like this one, it has an easter egg. It took me a little while but it was worth it. Here is the link to my main webpage, one there there is a link to the Boy Pig Mac Homepage, and on there is the link. Enjoy :D

http://homepage.mac.com/ibook238/

[Mr. Anderson]

Ha, that was good, but you didn't exactly make it hard to find the link.

Look forward to #4!

D

[LimeiBook86]

I know, hee hee but I wasn't sure if people knew what it was, so this way if they found it by mistake they would understand what an easter egg was. :D

[jefhatfield]

:D :D :D

[Wes]

I should take up flash animation during my English class, much better than hearing how my teacher met his wife in high school, or how fast he's going to quit if it rains.... and that's not even mentioning Macbeth :(

[scem0]

Does your english teacher talk out of his nose?!?! Mine does.
Quite annoying.

This is by far the best one :D. GJ.

[Wes]

Originally posted by scem0
Does your english teacher talk out of his nose?!?! Mine does.
Quite annoying.

This is by far the best one :D. GJ.


No he's not french. I was looking for the easer egg, holding down control and clicking all over the place, every few pixels, then the big blue outline popped up. :eek:

[LimeiBook86]

Well the egg does sorta pop up on you. hee hee. Well I am working on the webpage. I will make another "quick" comic then work on the page for a while. On January 1st the webpage hould be completed and Episode #5 will be done. I hope to see you in the next Boy Pig Mac thread. :D

[Wes]

What program are you using to do this? Flash mx? Dreamweaver?

[Megaquad]

Great one! You should also make pig doing something cute so we all begin to like the pig


However, you did something wrong.
This one has 175 KB, and I didn't realized it had that much in Chimera until I opened it in IE so when I clicked on that button all I got is white screen.

Solution?
Preloader! Make everything in 2 scenes.
First one, Preloader, with some vector graphics of pig boy and a mac, maybe some logo of them or transparent pic from some older comic with text LOADING somewhere.

Second scene, comic.

If you need some help for the flash side I'll be happy to do it.

[zarathustra]

A for effort.
Keep it up.
Etc.

Am I the only one though that does not find them funny, entertaining, or anythnig at all???

For the future episodes you need something that's called a point, and it makes the story that much more interesting.

[mcrain]

Originally posted by zarathustra
A for effort.
Keep it up.
Etc.

Am I the only one though that does not find them funny, entertaining, or anythnig at all???

For the future episodes you need something that's called a point, and it makes the story that much more interesting.

Hey, he's trying to learn skills to hopefully keep him out of jail. :)

[zarathustra]

Originally posted by mcrain


Hey, he's trying to learn skills to hopefully keep him out of jail. :)

I did give A for effort! ;)

[LimeiBook86]

Originally posted by W-_-W
What program are you using to do this? Flash mx? Dreamweaver?
"You got it!" -Guy from Call for Help on Tech TV

[LimeiBook86]

Originally posted by Megaquad

If you need some help for the flash side I'll be happy to do it.

OK Tell me how to make a preloader or send me a link to a tutorial :D

[LimeiBook86]

Originally posted by mcrain


Hey, he's trying to learn skills to hopefully keep him out of jail. :)
I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, THEY CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING!!! :D lol :rolleyes:

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by LimeiBook86


OK Tell me how to make a preloader or send me a link to a tutorial :D

post that info here, I'd be interested in seeing that as well.

D :D

[LimeiBook86]

Originally posted by dukestreet


post that info here, I'd be interested in seeing that as well.

D :D
Yes I would agree! :D


Also I think English class is great for thinking of comics, I am always done with my work and have a lot of free time. So I guess now I have something to do. :D

[mcrain]

You know, you need to do a comic that plays on the old saying...

"Even a blind pig finds a truffle."

[Wes]

Originally posted by Megaquad
Great one! You should also make pig doing something cute so we all begin to like the pig


However, you did something wrong.
This one has 175 KB, and I didn't realized it had that much in Chimera until I opened it in IE so when I clicked on that button all I got is white screen.

Solution?
Preloader! Make everything in 2 scenes.
First one, Preloader, with some vector graphics of pig boy and a mac, maybe some logo of them or transparent pic from some older comic with text LOADING somewhere.

Second scene, comic.

If you need some help for the flash side I'll be happy to do it.

It's always the scourge of the Earth 56k'ers who moan about preloaders. :p

[mcrain]

Oh, and there's always the saying about making a silk purse out of a sows ear...

(edit) Maybe, have a little Bill Gates-M$ guy trying to cut off the pigs ears with the saying you can't make a good operating system out of a sows ear.

[Mr. Anderson]

Ha, what about buying pigs ears at Pets Mart for your dog to chew on?

D

[Megaquad]

Originally posted by dukestreet


post that info here, I'd be interested in seeing that as well.

D :D

allright allright! :mad: :D

this is simplest preloader i can come up with:

put all your frames into a movie clip and call it piggy

delete all frames

make first frame and make some graphics on it and make it say "preloader" (this is what's it gonna be showed while preloading movie)
make this frame maximum 5-6 kB big

now make second frame and put piggy on it

put stop(); on second frame

that should be it, and if you want more complex preloaders search on flashkit.com for tutorials

it would be nice if preloader said how big is entire movie and how many percent is loaded
that is too long to explain here
you should try make it yourself or send me .fla file i'll fix it up for you

[LimeiBook86]

Ok I'll use that latr, I'm at school so I can't use Flash here, I'll do it when I get home :D

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Megaquad
if you want more complex preloaders search on flashkit.com for tutorials


very cool site - lots of great ideas and a good resource, thanks!

D

[LimeiBook86]

I would liek to create like a little special thread or something for my comic. Now I am not being pushy, even a tiny link at the bottom of the homepage saying "A new episode of Boy Pig Mac is out, click me" I dunno, I just want to make sure that everyone is up to date. This is important because I need tow start making my Boy Pig Mac episodes on my Power Mac G3 because my iBook is nice and clean, I am waiting to see if I get Jaguar for Christmas if I do then I can do a nice clean install :D

So don't worry the Boy Pig Mac (BPM) Series will continue I just have to use my other computer. I will try and have another episode but teh problem is that the file is on my friend's PC and he is away for the weekend, a new comic will definitly here on Monday. I promise ;) :cool: :D

[Megaquad]

Just make sure its clean, funny and you spell words properly :D

[Megaquad]

Originally posted by dukestreet


very cool site - lots of great ideas and a good resource, thanks!

D
Check out www.flash-db.com if you havent seen it they have some great ActionScript stuff and php/mysql all connected with flash

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by LimeiBook86
I would liek to create like a little special thread or something for my comic.

You can start by putting it in the Open Discussions forum - its the project discussion forum.

D

[LimeiBook86]

Originally posted by dukestreet


You can start by putting it in the Open Discussions forum - its the project discussion forum.

D
Will do... :D