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Preloading main movie with levels all together by Warrior

Preloading main movie with levels all together

by Warrior

I have struggled so hard to find a cure for this. After trial and errors, thank God, I found a way to preload the main movie with levels all at the same. Some websites preload levels one at a time and it will get annoying for some users to wait every time for a different movie to load. If you follow this tutorial carefully, you should have no problem.

Put a stop(); action in the first Keyframe of the movie(s) being loaded and nothing else. No movie clip, no graphic, no music or picture but just an empty Keyframe and a stop(); action. Then you load the movies you want. You can load all the movies at once or just a few. Here is the code to preload the movie(s) Put this code on your preloader.

onClipEvent (load) {
    // Load Three movies
    loadMovieNum ("Music.swf", 1);
    loadMovieNum ("Music.swf", 2);
    loadMovieNum ("Music.swf", 3);
}
 
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    // We devide it by 1000 to get rid of the decimal numbers
    Total = Math.floor(_level1.getBytesTotal() / 1000) + (_level2.getBytesTotal() / 1000) + (_level3.getBytesTotal() / 1000) + (_root.getBytesTotal() / 1000);
    Loaded = Math.floor(_level1.getBytesLoaded() / 1000) + (_level2.getBytesLoaded() / 1000) + (_level3.getBytesLoaded() / 1000) + (_root.getBytesLoaded() / 1000);
    Percent = Math.floor((Loaded / Total) * 100);
    _root.PercentDisplayTwo = int(Loaded) + " KB " + "  |  " + (Total) + " KB" + "  |  " + (Percent) + " %";
    if (Percent == 100) {
        // Have a frame lable inside the loaded movie so you can park it
        // and call it when ever you want
        _level1.gotoAndStop("One");
        _level2.gotoAndStop("One");
        _level3.gotoAndStop("One");
        _root.play();
    }
}