I have been working a long time on a portfolio website with five sub-pages (scenes). The four of them each with their own categori of images on a timeline. Today, totally out of the blue, images started missing in the timelines, and when I tried to rebuild a timeline replacing an image in a specific time frame with the “chose” in “Element Inspector”, the image also replaces the one in the previous frame. This has not happened before and I have no idea what is going on. I have rebooted my computer and reinstalled Hype but that didn’t help. I did an export of the project the day before yesterday and it was working okay. It is designed with layouts for 4K and 16/9 laptop sizes. I was so close to finish the project. Please help.
First, do you have backups of the original document?
Can you please report this as a bug via the 'Help > Report an Issue…' menu item and make sure to include the document and logs? (Also please let me know which element has the issue).
It sounds like you may have the record button turned on when doing the replacement? If so, this would make keyframes for a different image.
Hello Jonathan, Thanks for your input! Yes I have kept backups and worked on from an earlier version. I am working in Hype 3 Pro on an old Mac Pro 5.1 so it’s really outdated tech by now. No idea if that had any influence on the difficulties I ran into. I consulted with the Hype documentation and the “Duplicating Layouts” thing didn’t work, so I copied the layers in each scene instead. Anyways, I managed to finish the site albeit not optimized enough. The website covers 4K and 2K sizes and the images really needs to be reduced in quality. But I am going to have something like 3 times the amount of images than now, and even with the images being optimized loading will take a long time - like now. Do you know if there would be a way to have the first scene load first while the rest of the scenes (sub-pages) are loading in the background? Alternatively is it possible to have a message with the loader, something like “Please be patient - website is loading”? It’s a long time since Flash was around so people are no longer used to the loading process. Please have a look: www.kennethgroning.com
As far as optimization, on a page like that, perhaps just not preload the images? No individual image is actually all that large (the biggest is 1.2 MB), it is more that you have a lot of them.
Hype doesn't currently have the capability for fine grained control over when to preload what images, though there are some techniques/hacks I've seen on the forums (probably can uncover some old ones searching for "preloader"). The main thing is if you just want a better preloader screen you could use this:
But I'd probably just not preload and see if that's fast enough on a reasonable internet connection.
Thanks Jonathan, I had ticked the ”show loading indicator” box. If I un-tick that will that also make the images not preload then? Or how do I chose to not preload?