Flash For Beginners

[jpuura]

Some Basic thinks you should know if you start using adobes flash (No longer macromedia)

F6 = Duplicate Frame
F7 = New Blank Frame
F5 = copy frame or continue the current frame for longer
CTRL+L = Open Libary in side panel undrneath behavoirs
ENTER = Preview movie
CTRL+ENTER = Proper Movie Preview

Heres the basic interface flash has


Funky huh?

Right, to starty drawing and animating you'll need to know the tools!

These are the main tools you use to draw and make shapes


there is the paintbrush that you can use to draw lines and shapes with (Size And Shape is changeable)
The Pencil Which is like the paintbrush only draws more straight (size is changeable in the properties menu)
The Circle\oval (draws circluar shapes)
The Square\rectngle (draws square shapes(quadralatealrsl)sorry about spelling)
There are 2 other tools that can be used in conjunction with these
The paintbucket and ink bottle
They work like the paintbucet in MS paint although the ink bottle annot change the "paints" coulor.
right so lets start drawing!

I use the paintbrush tool the most (Im an crap drawer)
Change its size to the second smallest and draw an stick man.
use the circle tool to create the head if you want.



Now you have an stickman lets start animating it a bit.

press v or click on the first tool (selection tool)
and drag an box around your stick man.
Now you should see little white dots on it.
Press CTRL+G to group your selection or go to modify and group it.
Now theres an Cyan box around your stick man (cyan = light blue)
Now for some realy basic stuff.
press F6 and you should see an new frame appear at the top

Now if you disselected your stickman click on it again.
Now Move it slightly.
Press CTRL+ENTER and watch your stickman move.
Thats the basics of animation.
Now i'd like to talk about Actionscript.
TO get to action script select your frame and click on actions in the bottom box
Heres some basic action script commands and what they do

stop(); //Stops on this frame
play(); //Plays from this frame
gotoAndPlay("Frame"); //Gos to and plays the movie from "frame" which should be changed to an number corrisponding to an frame
gotoAndStop("Frame"); //same as above except it stops
nextFrame(); // self explantory
prevFrame(); // self explantory

[weblord]

any finished product you have made with this tutorial? that's nice.

[jpuura]

im newb with that :P

[weblord]

Originally Posted by jpuura

im newb with that :P

I see, if you have some tutorial with this, and it's not your own, it would benefit more if you include the url as well.

[jpuura]

it is mi own i made it :P

[navjotjsingh]

Thanks for a very good tutorial!

[jpuura]

no problem

[obvio]

Do you know of a flash tut. for an image slideshow?

[jpuura]

Hey Guys Maybe U Wanna Post Your Works Here

[jpuura]

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j9...Stickfight.swf