Alternativa 3D - Getting Started
Learn how to get started with the Alternativa 3D Flash engine with this detailed tutorial. Demo and source code included.

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Flash video player with custom controllers
This tutorial shows how to build flash video player with custom playback controllers using Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0.

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Camera Frame
Create a dynamic camera frame to follow your movie on export. It can do zooms and pans REALLY easily!

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Away3D Programming Tutorials - Spring Camera
Learn how to add a Spring Camera to an Away3D scene. Demo and source code included.

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Away3D Programming Tutorials - Hover Camera
Learn how to add a Hover Camera to an Away3D scene. Demo and source code included.

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Animated camera focus blur/sharp interactive effect
In this Flash 8 Pro tutorial, I will show you how simply it is to create an interactive image with camera blur/sharpen effects that appear as the user moves her mouse over it.In this easy and comprehensive lesson, you will see how to:

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Away3D Lite Programming Tutorials - Target Camera
Learn how to use the Target Camera in Away3D Lite. Demo and source code included.

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Away3D Lite Programming Tutorials - Hover Camera
Learn how to use the Hover Camera in Away3D Lite. Demo and source code included.

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Playing a Flash Movie Backwards
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to make a movie play in reverse. You will also learn how to create a controller Movie Clip, which will give an automated instruction from one part of a Flash movie to another, this is fundamental to programming in Flash and has many uses. You will also learn how to switch these instructions on and off. Examples of other Flash movies, that use controllers, are listed at the end of this page.

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Working with Objects
Independently of our working with animation, at the web page, at the catalogue for CDRoms or in any other place, we will have to work with objects.

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Text Zoom Effect
This is one of the most basic ,still a cool, effect one can make in Flash.Working with Alpha settings,Working with movie clips,Basic tweening.

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Introducing ActionScript
We believe you'll find ActionScript a satisfying companion - especially as you delve deeper into the relationship. Although you may not necessarily think of scripting as a creative endeavor, a working knowledge of ActionScript can spark all kinds of ideas - ones that will enable you to create dynamic content that can interact with your users on myriad levels. Best of all, you'll get the satisfaction of watching your ideas grow into working models that fulfill your projects' objectives.

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Working With Flash MX 2004 and PHP
This tutorial is going to show you a very basic method of sending information from Flash to an external PHP script. This is merely a primer to get you working with using Flash for forms and dynamic content. The actual code for this tutorial can be used IN lower versions of Flash, but the actual process is written for Flash MX 2004.

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Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Simple LOD
Use the SimpleLevelOfDetail class to create objects that alter their level of detail according to their distance from the camera. Demo and source code included.

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E-card Announcement
Create your own e-card announcement using images from your camera and Flash. All you need is a photograph, Flash, and a little imagination.

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Detect Intruders Using the Camera Object
In this tutorial I am going to show you, firstly, how to feed a web cam signal into Flash and, secondly, how to get in touch with your inner spy and use your web cam to detect intruders.

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Makin a RPG: Part 2 - Working with Variables
Learn how to give your guy some cash and maybe health. Easy to do! Also, we'll be fixing some problems with the last tutorial's codes.

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Movies & Flash
After reading Hillman Curtis's great book "Flash Web Design", I too started experimenting with using Movies in my animations. And anyone who has any interest in it can too. You don't even need a video camera at all. Just go to the web and download some royalty free QuickTime Movie clips (for free) and add them to your animation. So, below you'll see an example I did by using QuickTime 4's Sample Movie.

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Working with Flash
This section contains basic aspects of editing the Flash portion of your website template.

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PacMan that Runs and Gobbles Pills
In this tutorial, you will use the basic animation techniques in Flash to create a moving pac-man! There is no better way of learning a technique than by working on a real-world example.

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Animating Shadows
This interesting article will help you to create shadows that are animated. The author, working in Flash, takes you through ten well-defined steps. Screenshots and illustrations make it an easy lesson.

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Working with Sounds
Who would be able to see a mute movie? And a spectacular animation without sound? Unill recently, the only sounds that we heard on the web pages were the famous "midis", of scanty size and poor quality.

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Working with XML
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information.

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Fading objects with actionscript code
While working with movie clips on stage, we you might want to fade the movie clip in or out instead of toggling its _visible property. There are two procedures to animate a movie clip

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Working with flash timeline
In this tutorial you will learn how to work with flash timeline.

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Flash 8 Environment
Flash 8 counts with the most handy and intuitive environment or working interface. Moreover it has an advantage because it is similar to other Macromedia programs, it makes easier to assuming Flash, and faster its management and control.

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Making a Flash Website
Alright, Finally I have decided to sit down and type this big tut on how to make a website in flash. I am using Flash MX 2004 and working on a mac os x but everything I do should work on Windows computers too.

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Snake Game
This article will explain how you can add the Snake Game to your page. The author is working in Flash. The author provides all the necessary coding and has a graphic display with each step so you can follow your progress.

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Typing effect
In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a typing effect when working with text fields. This will become very handy if you don't want the text to be displayed right away but with some dynamic motion.

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Creating A Sound Board
You see them all over the internet. Sound boards are a bunch of sounds, like movie sound bites and celebrity quotes, that play when you click certain buttons. I'm going to show you how to make a fully working sound board of your own.

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Actionscript 3.0 Basics: Working with a class
A great tutorial for someone who decides to make a transition from AS 2.0 to AS 3.0 or just starting from scratch.The first thing we notice while using AS3 is that it would be much more preferable and cleaner to put code in separate class files rather than the timeline. So here Im providing a simple introduction to class files

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Intro to Design Pattern and OOP with AS3
Learn the basics of OOP while working with a Design Pattern.

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Drawing and Working with Color
Design passes through many phases when designing web page or an animation. After the phase of "What do I want to create and how is it going to look", normally, the phase of graphic design comes up. Realize what your imagination has produced on the paper (in this case on the paper of Flash).

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Working With The Accordion UI Component
We are going to make a simple site using the new accordion UI component in Flash MX 2004 Professional. In this tutorial I will assume that you have basic knowledge of Flash MX 2004 Professional and can get around the interface pretty easily.

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Working with 9-slice scaling
You can use 9-slice scaling to specify component-style scaling for movie clips. 9-slice scaling lets you create movie clip symbols that scale appropriately for use as user interface components, as opposed to the type of scaling typically applied to graphics and design elements.

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Simple PHP Live Counter For your Flash Movie
This tutorial shows you how to create a simple counter that you can use anywhere in your flash movie. The most obvious place is for either the intro or the main part of the Flash Movie that you are working with. You can also use this in other parts of your movie as well.

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Looping Movies With Flash MX 2004
It has come to my attention from working with Flash MX 2004 Professional that there isn't a quick way to loop a movie a certain amount of times without using action script. To find a better solution and a quick fix for a friend over the week I have come up with the following solution. While this is not the perfect solution to the problem it works and it works well.

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Basics of Flash Animation
While working in Flash you will find it really necessary to create simple animation sequences. In this Tutorial you'll learn how to create Simple Animations in Flash. In Flash, animation can be done in four basic ways:

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Using Sound in Flash Buttons
While working in Flash you will find it really necessary to use Buttons. You must have read our Tutorial on creating Advanced Flash Buttons, in this Tutorial you'll learn how to make yet another advanced Button by including Sound in a Button's Timeline. It is very simple and neatly explained below.

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ActionScript 2.0 Best Practices
ActionScript coding conventions are very important for Macromedia Flash designers and developers to ensure that code and applications are structured in a way that is intuitive and beneficial to themselves as well as other people working on the same project. This is particularly important with long code files. When you follow coding conventions, everyone on the design and development team can understand the code and can work more efficiently.

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