In a “Samorost” style activity scene, button trigger simple animations and can be accessed in any order the user wishes. This is what I mean by “non-linear”. Originally I thought this kind interactivity structure could only be done well with a light sprinkling of actionscript, however if organized in a particular manner it is possible [...]
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This tutorial will show you how to create button rollovers that will cause a separate movie clip object to change. While we will use bland circles and rectangles as our buttons and movie clips, you can probably imagine how it can apply to a more creative interface. In the physical world the equivalent would be [...]
What is a storyboard? Simply put it is a series of images you create, usually with text descriptions, to help organize and plan out an animation project. Creating an animation is generally a lot of work. Since storyboards allow you to plan out what you are making they can save you a lot of time [...]
By putting movie clips inside one another we can create more complex forms of animation while also keeping our main timeline nice and organized. In this example we will make a movie clip object rotate inside of another movie clip that is moving from one side of the stage to the other. Here’s what it [...]
Just about any property of a movieclip symbolcan be animated. In this tutorial we will animate the opacity of a movieclip. We will have another image underneath the image in our movieclip symbol, so it will create a “crossfade” effect from one image to the next. The process is very similar to animating the movement [...]