Side scroller - scrolling background

A scrolling background for platform and sidescroller games. Combine it with other pieces of actionscript for a full platform game!

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Scrolling A Movie
This page will help you make a scrolling movie clip. They're cool for displaying things in your movie. I needed to make this file because of how bad all the other tutorials were for this. This scroller will accomplish a couple of tasks
* It will be able to scroll any kind of content without having to set anything different in the script
* you will be able to "throw" the scroller
* and it will be able to have links in it and change the content of what your scrolling
this thing is actually pretty easy to do just as long as you know about the basic stuff in action script like setting variables and movie clip properties.


Add Depth to Your Game with Parallax Scrolling
This is a really simple technique which you can use to add the illusion of depth to any side-scroller game. Whilst I'm explaining how it's achieved, we'll also take a look at making infinitely repeating backgrounds.


Creating Cross Browser Scrollers Using DHTML
There's something about text moving across the screen that fascinates people. Since it was first possible to create moving text in a web page, by using JavaScript, countless so-called scroller scripts have been created. have dynamic Pie Chart in Flash 5 you noticed, however, that most of them are limited to scrolling the text either inside a text box, or status bar? For example, the below scroller scrolls text inside a text box:


Endless scrolling background in AS3
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an endless scrolling background in Actionscript 3 where an image will continue looping.


Non-Button Scroller
This tutorial will show you how to create a buttonless scroller. This is somewhat of an intermediate tutorial, so you should get yourself aquainted with the basics of Flash. if you haven't already, there should be some tutorials in the help menu that could help you with that. okay, here we go...


Scrolling Game Background (Video Tutorial)
This is a really nice and easy way to make a background scroll over and over.


Create a Smooth Rolling Scroller with AS3
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a scrolling list activated by mouse up and down movements, with different speeds based on the position of the cursor. I'll also cover preparing list data with PHP, loading XML data and a brief explanation of the algorithm I came up with.


Mask text scroller banner
Make an effective, attractive ad banner by animating giant scrolling text across it. What is even better, the text is a mask, revealing an image beneath it.


Easy Text or Images Scrolling
There are many websites in the Internet built using Macromedia Flash technology. You probably saw different types of scrolling on those websites. I would like to show you one of the easiest ways to create a scroll bar with the mask. It may be used not only for text scrolling but you may also put images into that scrolling.


Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling
There are many websites in the Internet built using Macro media Flash technology. You probably saw different types of scrolling on those websites. I would like to show you one of the easiest ways to create a scroll bar with the mask. It may be used not only for text scrolling but you may also put images into that scrolling.


Endless Scrolling Background
Create an endless repeating background using Flash ActionScript and one image. Use it on your forum signature, website header, banners and more.


How to build a Flash Actionscript 3.0 mouse scroller
I'll explain you few things how to understand and develop this. This scroller is a simple one, that instead of arrows will move a movie clip according to the mouses x position (this will be done with MOUSE_MOVE listeners, not with ENTER_FRAME) . An equation will be created, between mouse and content and we will move this using Caurina Tweener Class, as usual.


Scrolling Menus
A scrolling menu is an extremely useful thing to be able to do and though it is not difficult, how to do it is far from obvious. This technique can be used to scroll any object such as a long movie clip or picture. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a horizontally scrolling menu.


Create a Thumbs Scroller with AS3 and XML
Because many people was more and more interested in this subject, I decide to improve this tutorial with some new features. You know already how to work with XML files and you know how to set right the classpath of a flash file, you know how to work with Caurina, so we will not have difficulties in how to create a thumb scroller using AS3 classes and XML.


Create a Horizontal Scrolling Menu
A scrolling menu is an extremely useful thing to be able to do and though it is not difficult, how to do it is far from obvious. This technique can be used to scroll any object such as a long movie clip or picture. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a horizontally scrolling menu.


Making Text glow from side to side
How to make a piece of text be tinted a color from side to side.


Building Games in Flash 5 - Part 2 - Scrolling
This tutorial will cover scrolling backgrounds for a space game.


Creating a Multi-Directional Shooter
Learn how you can make something shoot left and right, like in a side scrolling shooter. How you can add a bit of code to it to make it shoot in 4 directions easily though.


How to make a scrolling bitstream?
How to create a scrolling bitstream that contains an endless stream of random generated bits and scrolls downwards.


The easiest way I know to make scrolling text
Scrolling text without using componant's. Easy as can be. Works in Flash MX and MX 2004.


Scrolling Image Gallery
This tutorial will create scrolling image slideshow. The images are loaded from external sources.


More Scrolling Function in Flash 5
This tutorial will teach you how to incorporate draggable scrolling and continuous feedback buttons to create OS-like scroll features in your Flash 5 movies.


text scroll with faded edges
This tutorial shows how to use Photoshop and GIF and PNG file formats to create fuzzy edged masks for a scrolling text fade out effect in any color background.


Creating Scrolling Terrain
In this tutorial you learn how to create scrolling terrain. The Game Gun you created in Weapon Manufacturing 101 is used as simply one more piece of terrain that can be scrolled. To understand this further have a look at the example below.


Text Scrolling onMouseOver
Text Scrolling Tutorial. The text will scroll when you move the mouse over the arrows.


Scrolling text on rollover
A variation of "The easiest way I know to make scrolling text" that scrolls continuously when the mouse is over an up or a down button.


Scrolling Marquee
Making a scrolling marquee in Flash is quite easy. Because Flash loops every animation, it makes the process so simple to complete.


Scrolling Marquee
Making a scrolling marquee in Flash is quite easy. Because Flash loops every animation, it makes the process so simple to complete.


Simple Scrolling Movie Clip
Here is a tutorial based around my "Simple Scrollbar" turorial but this is horizontal scrolling of a MovieClip. It is also very simple and uses little code, employing the same globalToLocal method.


iPhone kinetic scrolling in Adobe Flash
This free tutorial shows you how to add the same kinetic scrolling found in the iPhone to Adobe Flex. Demo and source code included.