Today’s tutorial is Part 4 of a series of tutorials on creating a music player using Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3. The previous tutorials can be found here: Using Sound in ActionScript 3.0 Creating a Volume Slider Creating a Pause Button If you haven’t read these tutorials yet, then I strongly urge you to check [...]
For those of you who are new to ActionScript 3, you might be wondering what happened to the getURL() function. It used to be so easy to create outbound links in Flash with just a single line of code inside the onRelease event for your buttons. Which brings up another question…what happened to the onRelease [...]
Today’s tutorial comes with a bit of good news. Yesterday, my pregnant wife and I went to the doctor and discovered that our first baby is a girl! So naturally, I thought I might post a tutorial on how to create a countdown timer with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3. Since my wife’s due date [...]
This tutorial will be building on two previous tutorials: Using Sound in ActionScript 3.0 Creating a Volume Slider In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to add a pause button to our music player. If you haven’t yet worked through the first two tutorials, or if you haven’t downloaded the source file from the volume [...]
After following a very handy tutorial by Lee Brimelow and then modifying the end result, I came up with my first Papervision 3D 2.0 animation! Let me know what you think.
This tutorial is part 2 of a series of posts on creating a music player. Click the links below to view the other posts in the series: Part 1 – Using Sound in ActionScript 3 Part 3 – Creating a Pause Button Part 4 – Creating a Mute Toggle Button In our last tutorial, we [...]
As a trainer, one of the questions I get a lot from beginners is “How do I do 3D in Flash?” And historically, I’ve always had to break it to them gently that there really is no inherently easy way of creating 3D illustrations and animations for Flash without shelling out a few bucks on [...]
This tutorial is Part 1 of a series of tutorials on creating a music player. Click the links below to view the other posts in the series: Part 2 – Creating a Volume Slider Part 3 – Creating a Pause Button Part 4 – Creating a Mute Toggle Button Lately it seems that everyone has [...]
I recently had a request for a tutorial on how to apply masks using ActionScript 3.0. If you’ve ever tried doing this with AS 3, then you’ve probably discovered that it doesn’t work the same as it did in AS 2. So, for those of you who have never used masks, or for those who [...]
In the last particle effect tutorial, I laid the groundwork for creating a randomized particle system. In this tutorial, we’re going to build on what we’ve already created, so if you haven’t read the last tutorial, you might not get too much out of this one. Since we’re all experts now on creating a basic [...]