Flash Tutorial : Make a Button

This flash tutorial is about to make a button for your website. This simple flash tutorial is for beginner so you can follow this flash tutorial easily. A flash button is supposed to be set on the top in a flash movie. Therefore, open a new file under Layer overview by doing a right mouse click on Add layer. Give a descriptive name to the layer. To keep it as easy as possible, we suggest calling the new layer Button.

The flash button should show during the entire animation, thus the layer should be as long as the movie itself. In order to include a new flash button into the present layer, you need to select the Rectangle tool. Draw a rectangle that will serve as a button graphic and with just the same size as the present picture.Afterwards, select the created area by clicking at the key frame and press F8.

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Flash Game Tutorial : Make A Hidden Objects

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a hidden objects game in Flash 8. An example of this type of game is the ‘Garden Critters’ game that is located in the Game Design section of the Flash Classroom gallery.
If you’ve got to this point, why not learn more about game design and how to enhance your game with a customized mouse or sound by completing the following Flash Classroom Tutorials.

In this type of game, the user has to locate objects that have been hidden in an environment. The level of complexity of the game will depend on the level of detail the
creator has gone to when developing the environment and hiding the objects within that environment. The ‘Garden Critters’ game has been designed for an early childhood audience and therefore most of the critters are easy to find.


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Flash Animation for Beginners

In this "Flash Animation for Beginners" tutorial we will learn how to make a simple Flash animation of the direct fluorescent antibody technique. Because of time constraints we won’t have time to cover how to make original drawings using the Flash drawing tools but rather will use images I have previously drawn. In addition, we won’t be using stop and continue commands to run the animation but rather will be using timed text inserts. However, instructions for inserting “stop” and “continue” commands will be included in this handout.

"Flash Animation for Beginners" Contents :
Introduction : The Macromedia Flash Screen, Drawing or Importing Objects, Converting Objects to Symbols, Converting a Frame into a Keyframe, Clearing a Keyframe, Adding Frames, Deleting Frames.
Beginning Your Animation: The Direct Fluorescent Antibody Technique: Positive Test : Moving the Animation Title Text On to the Stage, Add Unknown Antigen (Bacterium) to the Animation, Add Known Fluorescent Antibodies to the Animation, Moving the Fluorescent Antibodies to the Antigen, Wash Slide to Remove Unbound Antibodies, Showing the Known Antigen Fluorescing, Ending the Animation, Publish and Play the Animation.
Other Bells and Whistles : Moving an Object Along a Path, Scaling an Object, Tweening Color During Motion, Tweening Transparency During Motion, Using Buttons to Play, Stop, and Continue, Publishing a Flash Animation in a HTML Web Document, Publishing a Flash Animation as a QuickTime Movie.
Your Next Animation: The Direct Fluorescent Antibody Technique: Negative Test.
Sample Animations.
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Flash Animation with ActionScript 3.0

Pushed for time? Deadlines looming? Learn to copy tweened animations to ActionScript and you can save yourself hours of effort. Your motion tween can be as long as you
like, provided it s on a single layer. It can contain multiple tweens and keyframes, as well as blank and hold keyframes. Animated filter effects can also be included, as well as Alpha and scale effects. You can capture the motion of a number of Motion tween properties. These are: Transformation point, Colour, Skew, Scale, Rotation, Position values, Filters, Custom easing, Cache as Bitmap setting, Blend modes, Position, Orientation to motion paths, Frame labelling and Motion guides.

In Flash, keyframing animations and producing motion tweens can be a laborious process – particularly if you have to create the same style of animation over different movie clips across several Flash movies. This can be a massive drain on resources. It's a case of going back to the drawing board and starting the animation again.
Or is it?
One of the best features to come along in Flash CS3 is the ability to copy tweened animations to ActionScript 3.0. This way, youre able to take your finessed animation efforts and convert the animation to ActionScript code. This code can then be reapplied to any Flash movie clip – in any Flash movie. An instant time-saver in only a few clicks. Sounds too good to be true? Well dont worry, theres no catch: just a straightforward technique that could put you ahead of the game when it comes to delivering client creative. Read on to find out how to put it into action.

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Flash Tutorial : Make A Drag and Drop Game

In this Flash Tutorial tutorial, you will learn how to make a simple drag and drop game in Flash 8. This will involve creating a series of movie clips and adding some actionscript that makes them able to be dragged to any location on the screen.

In this game, users can choose different clothing items and drag them on or off the Gidgit girl. Note that the clothing is on a layer above the girl image so that it always appears in front.
The Flash Classroom site contains a number of other tutorials covering different types of drag and drop games. These include a tutorial which snaps the object back into the original location if it is moved to an incorrect spot and another that provides the user with a response if they move the object to a correct location.
These games are slightly more sophisticated and provide the user with more feedback. They are very useful for a range of educational games including sequencing activities, matching games, cloze activities and more.

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Flash - 3D Cube Gallery

This flash tutorial show you how to make 3D Cube Gallery. Flash Tutorial Difficulty level: Basic – intermediate. Even beginners can use this tutorial to create the same effect.

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Flash - Animation Tutorial

This animation tutorial assumes you are already familiar with the flash basics, else use the Flash Help (F1-Using Flash -Getting Started...) and read trough the first few chapters up to Creating Animation. This should put you up to speed.

Flash as you might expect, with it’s Symbols, tweening features, and the need to reduce file size for the web, is perfect for limited animation. But since limited animation doesn’t have to mean inferior cartoons, well you better get to work!

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Flash Element Tower Defense

David Scott, says "One of the most popular Flash games around the web during last months was a game (with some variants) called Flash Element TD, "a Macromedia Flash based Warcraft TD game inspired by Element TD for WarcraftIII".
This web page shows you how to develop this game with Flash. With this simple tutorial, you can develop simple addicted game with some sample you can download.

The game concept is simple: there is a road, and some minions walking that road. You have to kill all minions before they reach the end of the road. You can build several facilities to kill minions and earn money to upgrade weapons as the minions get stronger and faster.
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Walk animation tutorial

Walking character is surely one of the hardest things to animate. In this short tutorial you will shown that it doesn’t have to be that hard :). The tutorial is aimed for Flash, but you can get the idea for any other animation authoring program.

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Flash Element Tower Defense

One of the most popular Flash games around the web during last months was a game (with some variants) called Flash Element TD, a Macromedia Flash based Warcraft TD game inspired by Element TD for WarcraftIII. This simple tutorial shows you how to make a simple Flash Element Tower Defense.

The game concept is simple: there is a road, and some minions walking that road. You have to kill all minions before they reach the end of the road. You can build several facilities to kill minions and earn money to upgrade weapons as the minions get stronger and faster.
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