Animation display issue

**crusher** · 21st July 2012, 07:43 PM

Recently I sat down and began experimenting with animations. I noticed that when changing the animation sometimes the first frame of the new animation would be skipped. I made a quick application that definitely shows that something strange is going on as the first frame will almost always be shown a very short amount of time compared to the following frames.

So I'd like to ask if anyone can tell me if I've done something wrong or why this is happening? Using a custom animation system where I change the frames manually works great but I cannot for life get this to work the way I want it to.

The application I made can be found here:
AnimationProblem.mfa

Thanks!

**toastersburnthings** · 21st July 2012, 08:30 PM

Instead of making an animation with different frames in the application, try using an active background or active object with the built-in animation editor at the bottom.

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**crusher** · 21st July 2012, 08:40 PM

I'm not sure I understand...

For the record, if there is some kind of confusion here, I want to clarify that the application I posted is just a quick test to show the problem I'm having. Each frame is represented by a color and the first frame (colored green) is displayed a much shorter time than the following 3 frames.

**DavidN** · 21st July 2012, 08:46 PM

I've seen this as well, actually, so I can confirm your problem - unfortunately I'm not sure what to do to fix it!

**toastersburnthings** · 21st July 2012, 08:58 PM

1. Right click
2. Hit "insert object"
3. find and double click the "active object" on the list
4. left click to place the object
5. right click on the object and hit edit
6. on the left there is a button that looks like a diagonal line with arrows on each end
7. after clicking on that option, set the width to 640 and height to 480 or different than that based on the side of the application frame
8. create the image you want for the first frame
9. go to the bottom, right click on the current frame and hit clone frame, edit the new frames
10. on the bottom there should be a "direction options" tab; click on it and set the animation speed to your liking. you can hit "loop" if you want and set the frame to go back to when the animation ends

that should clear things up.

for the record, the link is broken so this is my guess at what your problem is: you are trying to use the "frames" of the application rather than the frames of animation in the custom object.

**crusher** · 21st July 2012, 09:13 PM

Oh sorry, didn't know the link was broken. I attached the mfa to my post instead so it should be working. But no, that is not my problem at all. I know the difference between frame, frame and frame. :P

DavidN, I'm glad it's just not me! Can't say I recall animations always acting like this though...