Flash » Basics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.