Flash Tutorials

This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a shiny text effect using layer masks.

Following some requests I now bring you a flash tutorial on more advanced flash game movement and hit testing. It will help if you have completed the Basic Game Movement tutorial, as it is this I am going to be expanding on.

This is a simple tutorial for creating a realtime anologue clock. We will not focus on graphics at this point, just getting a working clock.

This is just a quick tutorial on enabling transparency in your flash files. For example, in this site menu at the top the orange dropdown buttons are in a flash file with a transparent background, to allow for the shape of the page to show through.

Starting and stopping a flash movieclip is simple, but very useful. For this tutorial I have created an example (below) for you to have a play with using our old friend ‘blob’ from earlier tutorials. You will need a pre-created animated movie clip for this tutorial.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a realistic smoke/fog effect in flash. This is useful for adding atmosphere to images, games and pretty much whatever you fancy!

This is a quick tutorial to show you how to banish the standard mouse cursor and replace it with you own creation in two VERY simple steps!

In this tutorial we are goin to expand on the previous preloaders tutorial by adding a loading bar and percentage counter. If you have not completed the previous tutorial, please click here!

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a VERY simple fade gallery in flash, 100% done in the timeline. This is the most simple way of creating this effect, useful for website headers, banners and general looping through images. Of course this can always be done using photoshop to make an animated gif, but we’ll save that lesson for another day.

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use motion guides. These basically create a ‘path’ that a movieclip will follow, without you having to animate all of the frames at turning points etc.