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[Alain]

Hey everyone, I'm knew to the forums but I've been using the site for a while now.

Well, I'm 19 out of NC and I'm currently in school at UNC: Charlotte, moving from here and there in the summer doing freelance website design. I have all the graphics and programming but flash is quickly moving into the website world, basically taking it over and I need to LEARN!!

I thought since I've messed with flash a good amount before that I wanted to start doing a futuristic type deal.

www.d2designs.com is an example, I want to make something along those lines.

If anyone can help me out with anything that'd be awesome, any tips or any tutorials that would bring me a step closer would be great.

[Pax]

I'd suggest that you look into the basic elements that you'll be working with.

Properly creating buttons (ie. not the button element, but using movieclips to do so)
Learning current code (onClipEvent or on(eventName) is bad...you should be using this.onRelease = function(){} )
Learn about tweening so you can do your animations.

If you are comfortable with code, I suggest learning to tween with actionscript. It can be a huge timesaver in the long run. Might want to try and read up on debugging your flash files. Flash is picky...and there are a whole lot of things that can screw it up.

If you are using bitmaps (pngs, jpgs, gifs) in your flash movies, make sure you turn allow smoothing on. To do this right click on the bitmap in the library and go to properties. Check the checkbox for allow smoothing. This way you can tween and rotate a bitmap without it getting all jaggy and gross.

Hope that helps.

[chocopie]

Thats some cool example! you know, I am always wondering how you can control your animation with action script? because I am using tween but still I can't control my animation/the mask speed like that good!

is there any some tutorials about that? and how you can match your animation with the sound ?
I am trying to achieve my flash animation skills like this guy
http://www.fakepilot.com/work/

[Pax]

Theres plenty of ways to tween with Actionscript. There should be a bunch of tutorials about that on p2l, but I would also check out using Fuse and the ZigoEngine for coded tweens. Much easier.

To sync your audio and tween, you'll have to to a timeline tween, and just set the audio to streaming.

Learning about masking and filters is also a good idea for some nice animations.

[chocopie]

wow! thanks I will try to use those two. Before that, I am trying the laco tween but it couldn't achieve what I am trying to do . and also, I will trying to find some tutorial to know how to work the actionscript inside the movie clips and controling the velocity .
By the way, just some random question. I came across this website http://www.georgecol....com/flash.html
and I am interest to know ihow you can make that kind of transition . for example, when you click one project to the other one, it will have kind of random buble mask transition?

[Pax]

You're bang on. All that is is a movie clip with a bunch of circles tweening up in size. That clip is then set as the mask over the image. Super simple to do, but gives a nice effect when you are done. Try doing the same stuff with different shapes, you can make some neat transitions.

Remember that you can animate mc's inside the main mask movie clip to get some cool results. You can keep animating inside clips that are inside...and you get this big chain of animated clips with cool effects.

[chocopie]

Hi Pax thanks again for your reply :)
I just don't get it with the part "you can animate mc's inside the main mask movie cli""

do you have some tutorials like that ? or some book?
I am serious need it

[Pax]

Haven't made any tuts about that yet, but I'll add it to the list

Anyways, just sent a movieclip as the mask for an object, then within that movieclip, you can keep embedding movieclips (creating new ones on the timeline). This allows you to have animations going on inside a child movie clip, while still allowing you to animate the parent. Can give some interesting effects.

I've attached a really really simple example of what I am talking about . Have a look at it. Its slightly impractical for something so simple, but it should give you the general idea of what I mean by animating clips withing clips you are animating for the mask.

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[Tirus]

Pax, on Jun 22 2007, 09:23 AM, said:

Haven't made any tuts about that yet, but I'll add it to the list

Anyways, just sent a movieclip as the mask for an object, then within that movieclip, you can keep embedding movieclips (creating new ones on the timeline). This allows you to have animations going on inside a child movie clip, while still allowing you to animate the parent. Can give some interesting effects.

I've attached a really really simple example of what I am talking about . Have a look at it. Its slightly impractical for something so simple, but it should give you the general idea of what I mean by animating clips withing clips you are animating for the mask.

any chance you could save the fla for mx 2004, i get the error 'Unexpected File Formet' (I'm assuming you are using Flash 8).

[Pax]

Sorry, re-saved the file, should work for you now.

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[Tirus]

Pax, on Jul 2 2007, 01:10 PM, said:

Sorry, re-saved the file, should work for you now.

thanks