Flash AS2 Tutorials

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Flash tutorial on creating random animated bubbles! - (AS2)

Ever wondered how to create an under-water bubble effect in Flash? Well wonder no more! With a few simple steps, you’ll have a nice editable file like this:

And you can easily set the volume, speed and size of the bubbles to suit your needs!
Well lets get started.
STEP 1
Create a new Actionscript 2 file and set [...]

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Realistic smoke effect - Flash

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! Your final result will be similar to this:

STEP 1
Create a new flash file, set the framerate to 30 for a smooth animation. Next, import [...]

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Transparent Background’s - Flash AS2

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. Without the flash buttons, the site looks like this:

With [...]

Monday, October 20th, 2008

HitTest and Advanced Game Movement - Flash AS2

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. Your final result will look similar to this:

STEP 1
Open a new actionscript file, [...]

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Create a Flash Anologue Clock - AS2

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. By the end of this tutorial you will have a working clock similar to this:

STEP 1
Create a new flash file and rename layer 1 to ‘clock’.
On this layer we need [...]

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Start & Stop MovieClip buttons - Flash (AS2)

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.

STEP 1
Start a new actionscript 2 file, set the framerate [...]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Create a flash custom cursor - Actionscript 2

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! Your end result will be somthing like this:

STEP 1
Open a new actionscript 2 file, set the framerate to 30 and rename layer 1 to ‘cursor’. Create a new [...]

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Advanced Flash Preloaders - (AS2)

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! Your end result will be something like this:

STEP 1
Create a new actionscript 2 file, change the framerate to 30 and rename layer 1 [...]

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Basic Flash Preloader - (AS2)

Preloaders are something that most online flash work will require, as you never know what speed connection any particular visitor will have when visiting your site! In this tutorial I will show you the basic code for a preloader with no fancy graphics (i’ll save that for a future tutorial to create some funky preloaders).
STEP [...]

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Countdown Timer for Flash Games (AS2)

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very simple yet effective flash countdown timer using actionscript 2. This is great for use in flash games or multimedia applications. The final result will be a countdown timer like this:

I will also show you how to make a standard game timer, with just [...]


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