Helloooooooo. Can you please explain how you have the key loading thingy on your RP blog? It's hella cool o.o
Hi, anon! For those who don’t know what the anon is referring to, I have a loading animation on my RP blog. Here’s what that looks like:
I actually use a premade code for this, which I link on my credits page: PreLoadMe by Niklaus Gerber! That page explains the whole thing, as well as how to install the code--he gives you everything you need!
The only thing I, personally, created was the loading animation, with the glowing key. The key image I got from this texture pack (also linked on my credit page!), and I created the glow with an Outer Glow layer style.
I animated the glow “pulsing” like so:
1. In the timeline window, I hit “Create Frame Animation,” then duplicated the one frame I had.
2. On the second frame, I added an Outer Glow layer style.
3. I selected both of the frames (hold down shift when clicking on the other frame!), then went down and hit the Tween button. This is a tool that creates transitions between two different frames by fading one out and the other in. I went with 5 frames here, for simplicity’s sake!
That has the glow fade in; we still need it to fade out!
4. To create the fadeout, I selected the first and last frames of the animation and hit the Tween button again. These are actually the same frames we selected in the last step; they just have the tweened frames between them! When we hit the tween button again, it creates a new transition between the two of them, fading out the Outer Glow layer style.
5. Then I just set the timing to “Forever,” so the animation repeats continuously, and there you have it!
I hope this was helpful! Let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you.
