A couple years ago, I accidentally discovered method for giving Flash text an extruded, 3D look, and it’s insanely easy to do. Step 1 – Create Some Text – Easy enough, right? In this case, I want to put a gradient on the text, so to keep things simple, I’m just going to break the [...]
I recently posted a couple of ActionScript button tutorials that made use of the Tweener class instead of the traditional Tween class, so I thought it would be appropriate to talk a little more about the Tweener class and discuss why and how to use it. Tween vs Tweener It doesn’t take a Flash developer [...]
Flash CS4 changed the way that motion tweens are handled. In CS3, tweens were very timeline-oriented, but CS4 has made them more object-oriented. This tutorial is a great overview of both the old and new ways of creating Motion Tweens using Flash.
Having problems with your preloader? It’s to be expected. Preloaders have a history of causing a lot of grief among Flash designers. Even once you get the loader bar working, you’ll often find that it takes the preloader itself several seconds before it shows up. Which defeats the purpose of having a preloader in the [...]
In today’s video tutorial, I’ll show you how to create an ActionScript 3D particle effect that causes multiple stars to animate out in all directions in 3D space. Here is the ActionScript for this tutorial: var container:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); addChild(container); root.transform.perspectiveProjection.fieldOfView = 120; addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, addStar); function addStar(e:Event):void { var mc:star = [...]
Inverse Kinematics! The feature we’ve all been waiting for! IK is going to make character animation a lot easier than it once was. With IK, you can build a bone structure to link different pieces of a character or object together in order to make it easier to animate. In today’s video, Craig will discuss [...]
If you’re familiar with using motion paths in Flash CS3, then you might be a little confused when trying to create your own custom path using Flash CS4. In Flash CS4, a motion path is automatically created any time you create a motion tween, and there is only so much you can do to customize [...]
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