Flash Plastic Text Effect Tutorial
April 26 | Flash, Tutorials | 1 comment
In this tutorial we are going to look at how to cerate a plastic, glossy, glassy look for your text in Flash. I am using Flash CS3 and also using some of the Flash filter effects. (more…)
Flash Curling Paper Tutorial
April 26 | Flash, Tutorials | 1 comment
In this tutorial we will be looking at how to create a paper curl in Flash. We will also be adding some texture to the paper using a bitmap. (more…)
Flash Vector Illustration Tutorial
April 26 | Flash, Illustrations, Tutorials | 2 comments
This is a tutorial on taking a sketch and creating a flash vector illustration with it. The subject in this case will be the American president, Barack Obama. (more…)
Return Instance Name of Movieclip
July 1 | Flash | 1 comment
Some Flash Action Script…
If you ever need to get the instance or parent name of a movie clip you can give the parent movie clip a variable in the first frame such as:
RetName = “sample1″;
Then you can call it at any time using the following method:
InstanceName = movieclip.RetName;
movieclip being the child.
I needed to do this recently for a flash game and only just worked this out.
Flash or HTML Websites?
June 29 | Flash, Tutorials | 3 comments
Not for the first time and undoubtedly not for the last time either, I was asked if a site should be all Flash or HTML.
Now this depends, is what I say. This particular site had already been created all in flash. They sell gifts online and the site is basically an e-commerce store. They had been up and running for about a year and where getting little or no organic hits to the site. The site was 1 page, with a clever bit of flash running the catalogue of products. (more…)