Adobe Flash Math and Physics tutorials
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Precise Cursor Angle Compass
This lesson will demonstrate how to create a compass that always points in the direction of the mouse cursor.
Detecting mouse angle easily
It is a way to detect the mouse angle using Math.atan, and itīs easy to understand.
Detecting the Mouse Angle
Learn how to detect the mouse angle subtended from the center of a movie stage. This has useful applications in arcade games as it will give the enemy the ability to track you.
Envelope Points
Once a sound is attached to a frame in Flash. you can use a maximum of 8 envelope points to manipulate that sound. Envelope points (appearing as little squares in the diagram below) are really volume controls that allow you to create effects such as panning, muting, and fading.
Detecting the Mouse Angle - Easily
This tutorial presents a fast easy method for determining an approximation of the mouse angle, and an exact method for calculating the movement of a bullet from the origin to the mouse.
Easily make a realistic reflection angle
Make a reflection angle that is realistic and can be used for a game like pong or breakout.
Creating 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects and using them in a Flash Animation
How to create 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects, how to convert them to XML and how to connect to them in flash to make an animation that responds to your moving part in the flv.
Vectors to Speeds
This tutorial is about how to disassemble a force, direction vector in to x speed and y speed for moving a symbol. This will be useful if you have a symbol that you want to propel at a specific speed at an angle that is not perfectly along the X or Y-axis.
GeoLocation with Flex and MaxMind
This free tutorial shows you how to plot latitude and longitude points onto a 3D model of the earth. Demo and source code included.
XML: Finding nodes by name
Ever have so many children in a node, and hate to use: "nextSibling" 16 times? Here are 3 simple functions that will brighten your data.
Bevel Filter with ActionScript
A Bevel effect gives objects a 3D look and can be applied to objects such as Buttons, Movie Clips and Text. You can customize the look of the Bevel with different highlight and shadow colors, the amount of blur on the bevel, the angle of the bevel, the placement of the bevel, and a knockout effect.
Game cheat guard
In this tutorial we will simply cover how to stop people from cheating in your games by right clicking and pressing play so that it jumps from the YOU LOSE screen to the YOU WIN screen and adding you points
The Tank: Part 2: Rotating and Shooting the Cannon
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to make the cannon on the tank rotate wherever the mouse is pointing and shoot whenever the left mouse button is clicked. Topics covered in this tutorial: mouse angle detection, onMouseDown event, duplicateMovieClip, rotation and actionscript controlled motion.
How to Make a Simple Mouse Shooting Game in Flash 8
This tutorial will show you how to animate a sprite on the screen and then enable the game so that when you click on the sprite you get points added to a score.
Displaying Google Maps in Flash
Learn how to use the Google Maps API to display directions between two points using a bit of AS3 in Flash.
In / Out points
If you do not have access to a sound editing application in which you can optimize your sounds, Flash gives you limited ability to "edit" your sounds. That is, you can delete from your sound files any unnecessary silence or gaps which you would not want to include in your presentation or increase your file size.
Creating a Sliding Menu in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create an animated sliding menu that appears when the user points his mouse on its tip and then slides back inside when the user moves his mouse away.
Using Motion Guides in Flash
In this tutorial, you will learn how to animate a graphic on a guided path using the motion guide. You will also learn how to place your graphic or movieclip on the correct points of the motion guide.
Basic E-Mailing
Right, I have been asked how to make an e-mail link 10 times this week - and after looking for a basic e-mail link instructions in the tutorials and not finding one, I have decided to make my own!.
Draw Full Line Through Any Two Points
While it is fairly straightforward to use Flash's drawing API to draw a line from 1 MovieClip to another, it's a little less trivial to draw a full line from from 1 end of the stage to another AND through two given MovieClips. This tutorial will guide you throug the steps of drawing just such a line!.
Introduction to Arrays in ActionScript
This tutorial will hold a basic introduction on three main points regarding arrays: (1) the creation of arrays, (2) accessing arrays, and finally (3) modifying arrays. This tutorial does not claim to tell you everything about arrays, but it will give you the required knowledge for you to start your own exploration on arrays in ActionScript.
 
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