Advanced Motion Guide Adobe Flash / Animation
This tutorial will address this issue, and make the ship turn along the motion guide, to look more realistic. If you are new to motion guides, read that tutorial first.
Different Text Effects Adobe Flash / Animation
There are lots of different text effects possible in Flash. We're going to look at a nice simple effect, where the letters fall into place. If you want to see an example of the effect, click here.
Creating A Sphere Adobe Flash / Drawing
Creating spheres is one of the more basic effects you can create in Flash. It requires no coding or anything too complex. It's a great effect to learn when starting out with Flash. If you want to see an example of what we will create, go to the bottom of this page.
PolyStars Adobe Flash / Getting Started
The PolyStar (Polygon + Star) Tool is widely overlooked in Flash, because it's only accesible via the Rectangle Tool. You can see on the Rectangular Tool logo that there is a small black arrow pointing downwards. This means that it can be expanded for more options. If you click and hold the mouse button when you select the Rectangle Tool, you will see this small menu appear:
Tracing Bitmaps Adobe Flash / Getting Started
Using images in Flash is quite difficult. It's not possible to edit specific parts of the image, unless you convert it to a vector image. Doing this will also allow you to zoom in without the image pixelating.
Making a Banner Adobe Flash / Getting Started
You see them all over the internet. Banners are everywhere. We're going to look at making a professional banner in Flash. It could be used on your website, if you have one, or you could have it put on other sites to get more visitors to yours. In any case, banners don't have to look boring. In this initial lesson, we won't animate it, that will be in a later lesson.
Drag & Drop In Flash Adobe Flash / Getting Started
Dragging and dropping is used everywhere. Not only in general file moving and placing, but also within games. It my be necessary to move a certain item elsewhere for a puzzle or adventure game. We're going to take a look at the basics of dragging and dropping in Flash. It is a very simple effect to conquer. It only requires a few lines or Actionscript to work, and I shall explain what the Actionscript is telling Flash to do. If you would like to see an example of what you can create, click here.