Flash Plastic Text Effect Tutorial

Posted 26 April, 2009 in Flash, Tutorials

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

Posted 26 April, 2009 in Flash, Tutorials

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

Posted 26 April, 2009 in Flash, Illustrations, Tutorials

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

Posted 1 July, 2007 in Flash

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?

Posted 29 June, 2007 in Flash, Tutorials

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…)