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  3. Posted · Edited by jord2 (see edit history) · Report reply

    How to make a scene select button. By: Jordain Joyce

     

    The scene select button enables whoever is watching your movie to navigate more easily through your movie instead of having to go through your whole movie to get to the good part of your movie. This is a very useful tool and many people use it. If you would like you can also use this code I gave you and use it for your play button as well.

     

    First of all open up flash and make a rectangle or a circle of what ever you would like. Then make it a Button (you can make it a movie clip if you really wanted to like make it like an animated button.) Now click on the button(or movie clip) and press F9 to open up your action panel and copy and paste this in

     

    on(release){_root.gotoAndPlay("first");}

    Ok see the first in the brackets? That can be anything you want but you have to remember what you put in there (REMEMBER YOU MUST HAVE THE QUOTATIONS IN THERE OR IT WILL NOT WORK!!!!!). Now wherever you want to start when you push the button you have to find the spot you want it and when you have found a frame you want to start it at you put a keyframe there and you name it. So go to properties and you should see a white box and light grey text inside that says <frame label> here is a picture.

     

    Posted Image

     

    So now that you have labeled the frame you should see a red flag like the one in my picture. So all you do for scene select is make a bunch of buttons with the code that I provided above and change the name inside the quotations(WITHOUT BACKSPACING ON THEM) to like second or something.So heres another example

     

    on(release){_root.gotoAndPlay("second");}

    (Do not change them to numbers like 1st or 2nd because I donât think that will work) So now that you made a bunch of scene select buttons you much match them up with the frames like we did with the first one. You do not have to have it first or second thatâs just the way I do you can name it whatever you would like but you would have to change the frame name also.

     

    Iâll explain the code because I feel like it

     

     

    on(release) {

    This is simply when you let go of the left clicking thing on your mouse

    _root.gotoAndPlay("second");

    Starts at the root directory and looks for a frame name that is called what ever is in the brackets and in this case its second

    }

    This bracket is a terminators

     

     

     

    DONâT STEAL I SPENT TIME WORKING ON IT AND STEALING ISNT COOL

     

    I hope this helped you guys out.

     

    Made by: Jordain

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    Sprites, as you may or may not know, are pictures in a series used for animations. They are very helpful in flash as you can use pre-made/pre-sized pictures and don't have to draw the animation yourself. To use a sprite, first open a new window. Make sure the sprites are saved as separate files, and then click file->import->import to library and import all the sprites. select the first frame, and drag the picture from the library to the stage. Take note of where it is located on the stage by looking at the properties tab. click 2-6 frames later(depending on how fast you want the animation to be) and press F6. select the key frame and press delete to remove the first sprite from the new key frame. Drag the next picture and line it up using the properties tab. make sure it is lined up or it'll look like the sprite warped. You can, if it is a running sprite, animate every frame or every couple of frames and move it across the screen.Hope this was useful.
    Peace
    Aaron

    Ok you forgot a very important step. With your tutorial your just showing them how to do it with the ugly sprite sheet still attached on it before you do any of his steps first you want to go to modify>bitmap>trace bitmap and make them 1 and 1 and change it to very tight. What this does is IT ENABLES YOU TO DELETE THAT UGLY SPRITE SHEET THAT THE CHARACTER WAS STUCK ON!!! If your character is blured from doing this undo it and trying changing the numbers to 1 and 5 or something like that. Then follow his steps although I think its easier to use onion skin outlines to align your guy. Anyone I hope this helped =D

  7. Posted · Edited by jord2 (see edit history) · Report reply

    Ya I am going to be making a couple more tutorials but they probably wont be as long as this one. Iam going to make a scene select button tutorial and how to make a good frame by frame movie. I would like to make a tutorial on how to make a basic game but I only know some gaming AS and the tutorial for it would be filled with mistakes :/

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    Simple pre loader tutorial with play button by: Jordain Joyce

     

    First of all open up flash then

     

    Create 4 Layers and in order name them: Actions

    Loader outline

    Loader Bar

    Content

     

    Then create 3 frames for each layer.

    Lets start in the actions layer, for the first frame make it blank and the second frame make it blank also. Press F9 to open the actions panel (make sure you are in the 2 frame of the actions layer) and put this in

    myLoaded = Math.round(getBytesLoaded());myTotal = Math.round(getBytesTotal());myPercent = myLoaded/myTotal;myBar._width = myPercent*170;MyText = Math.round(myPercent*100)+"%";if (myLoaded == myTotal) {	gotoAndStop(3);} else {	gotoAndPlay(1);}
    Ok so now your done with the action layer now you move on to the Loader outline. Select the rectangle tool and create a box with a width of 170 and a height of 10. (to change the width and height just make any size box and then go to Properties and change it there). Ok so you have a rectangle with a fill inside the border so select the fill inside the border and right click it and cut it. Now you change in the loader bar layer and right click and select paste in place. Now select the fill and press F8 to make it a movie clip. Make sure when you are making it into a movie clip change the registration to the top left square!! Now once it is a movie clip go back to the previous screen with all the layers in it. So you are still in the loader bar layer so click on the rectangle just the filled one and go to properties and change its name myBar (you put the name in right beside where it has the swap button is.

     

    For your loader outline and your loader bar on the third frame make it a blank keyrame.

     

    Now to move on to your content layer, which is your play button. (I am only showing you how to make a play button, in another tutorial I will show you how to make a scene select button) Now make a rectangle or something that will be your button. Once you are done that click on it and press F8 and make it a button (you can make it a MC but for this tutorial I’ll keep it simple) Now once you finish making it a button (your registration is probably still in the top left I would suggest changing it back to the middle) you click on it once and press F9 to go into your action panel and copy and paste this in there

     

    on (press) {play();}
    For the frames for the content layer it doesn’t really matter if you leave it all with the button but if you want the button to only appear when it is done loading make the first two frames blank and the last frame you have your button in it. Here a picture to show you what all your layers and frames should look like.

    Posted Image

    Now to test this movie first create a new scene and import a large picture file. Now drag it on the screen. You do this so your pre loader has something to load. Now test your movie by pressing ctrl+enter twice. Remember twice so if you see your bar going across that means you got it. YAY!!!

     

    If you have any questions just PM me.

     

    Hope you found this tutorial handy this is my first tutorial I made =D

     

    Remember NO stealing I spent time doing this and stealing isn’t cool >=(

     

    Made by: Jordain Joyce

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    Flash does not deserve to get the negative vibe that it has been getting. ie flash sucks.

    I have done a movie in my mind now if I can just get these programs to behave. My main problem is I am useing way to many programs and my brain is going to explode. I know you should learn one and learn it well but my problem is liking different ones for different things. I have noticed that people like Corel draw and I have never used it. Problem is with graphics that all the programs work differently.

    PSP 8 is my fav but I have an old program that I like much better for cropping etc except the colors are not web colors.

     

    Does anyone know of any good flash tutorials out there?

     

    I have taken some by Macromedia andI swear that I have followed the steps exactly by the tutorial but the sr creen on my pc opens a different window within the program than does the tutorial. Are they purposly try to confuse us so we will all take there course? After at least 10 times following it step by step I just decided to try something myself and bingo it worked but not their way. :(

     

    you can find my question in other web sites

     

    Newgrounds is probally the best place to learn all about flash thats were i learned my stuff well some things just type in tutorials in the search engine there and youll have like a list of 200 or more tutorials. http://www.newgrounds.com/ and if you need help with anything specific you can ask me iam very experienced with flash...just not AS iam still learning that i know all the basic for it like how to make a preloader and play, scene select buttons and basic games and thats about it.

  13. Posted · Edited by jord2 (see edit history) · Report reply

    Ive been doing flash for about 2 years,im not too good at it but i do my best in every cartoon that i DO do,ive made like 3 real cartoons,the rest are just quick shorts lol,i just need peoples opions on stuff i do,im pretty sure i suck pretty bad but i need opions to get better :(http://marche-00.deviantart.com/ <--thats where alot of my stuff is,dont be too cruel xD

    Well on your sonic game you did the trace bitmap wrong you should have it like at 1,1 or 1,5 and change it to very tight
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