Flash Tutorials

Functions are fundamental tools used in ActionScript to reduce the amount written code, save time, and add a logical structure to your code.

This tutorial will teach you how to create your own movie clip scroller. We will use Actionscript 3 for the interaction and functionality as usual. The Flash movie can be very easily modified to fit your needs!

This tutorial will show you how to create multiple Flash pages using XML. In the Flash movie, all the content and image paths have been defined in a XML file. I will first give you a short intro to XML, then we set up the Flash movie and finally, we add some Actionscript 3 to provide the functionality.

It’s easy to setup simple character movement based on keypresses, we’re going to take it a step farther. Don’t worry this is still easy but this time around we are going to add velocities in x and y directions that will be affected by “friction” and your keypresses… The end result will be a much smoother movement for our spaceship.

Movement is extremely important for any game in which you take the role character or object. Bad movement can completely ruin your game, and good movement can make it feel well polished. Of course, movement is just one part of your game, but it’s the foundation of everything your character will do, so you need to give it some attention.

This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a fade transition effect using the alpha property. This will give the effect of images fading into each other.

This tutorial will teach you how to create randomly shooting masks as seen in the Flash movie above. You will learn how to use multiple masks over an image and animating the alpha of the masks.

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson, you will see how to create modern circle animation in flash using the Motion Tween and the Free Transform Tool (Q). You don't have to use action script code to make this lesson.

This is the ultimate noob tutorial that will introduce you to the fundamental ActionScript 3.0 tools.

Learn how to play video files in Flash.