Flash Plastic Text Effect Tutorial
Posted 26 April, 2009 in Flash, Tutorials
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
HONESTY BOX Help support this site - Thanks!Return Instance Name of Movieclip
Posted 1 July, 2007 in Flash
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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.
flashHONESTY BOX Help support this site - Thanks!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…)
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