A simple and easy tutorial for you to know how to use the mouse interactivity in Actionscript 3. We’ll create the eyes for an alien character that will follow the mouse. Also we’ll hide the mouse and change it with something else. All this is done in a general Movie Clip so you can drag it in your project.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use the glow filter in Actionscript 3. I’ll create a vertical menu that will have a good looking glow effect for each item. Along with the glow I’ll add a tween to have a smooth transition. So let’s begin.
Searching some interesting stuff for the Weekly Video section I came up on this tutorial video in wich Ty Voliter, a developer on the Adobe Flash Catalyst Team, demonstrates how to use states and the timelines panel to build an introductory animation in your Flash Catalyst project. The animation will play right when the application loads in the browser.
A really simple and useful tip. The drag and drop functionality in Actionscript 3.0. You can use it to drag pictures from one spot to other, to put items in a shoping cart, to arrange objects in a specific order etc. I’ll show you how to match 3 different shapes in their corresponding spots
In this tutorial I’ll explain how to create a magnifying glass effect in AS 3. All you need is a proper height resolution picture (I used a 1200px x 800px image) for a good magnifying effect and a few minutes to read the following guide lines. The picture is loaded from code so you can easily change it. Check the example below for the final effect.
This tutorial is addressed to those flash beginners who want to find out how tweens works in ActionScript 3. I’ll create a simple and useful menu from scratch. I’ll try to be as clear as i can but for those who get lost on the way i’ll gladly answer your questions/comments.