Flash Tutorials

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.

In this flash actionscript tutorial we will talk about arrays, and learn how to use simple arrays.

For those of you who have completed the basic buttons tutorial, this will show you a few neat tricks to making you buttons look much more interesting, and you’ll want to play with them for hours! (Depending wether you have a girlfriend or not…)

Today we will be learning how to create a muzzle flash in Adobe Flash 8 or later (as long as your version of Flash has blur, you'll be fine). I am just focusing on the actual shot, so there is no stick figure person holding the gun or anything.

This is a question I have been asked before, and remember asking myself about 10 Months ago. I had heard them mentioned, but failed to see how they could be useful. How wrong I was! What we are going to do here is learn why frame labels are awesome, and just how useful they can be.

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a button and add some interactivity for the user. Buttons have countless uses in flash, but in this tutorial we are going to focus on a simple on/off feature you can develop in your own way.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create basic 8 directional movement using the arrow keys.

In this tutorial I want to show you one example of writing your own class. I’m going to show you how and why you might write your own class to control a library symbol.

Here is a tutorial on how to make your character, object, car (or whatever you want!) to accelerate and decelerate to add a bit more life to the object. In this first example we will be using a car which we will make. Hopefully you know the basics of flash if you dont here is a link to the basics.

In this tutorial you will learn the VERY basics, so if you have never used flash before you are in the right place! I will show you basic navigation around the interface, how to add / remove frames and create a basic tweens.