Hello and welcome. Here you will see and learn how to create
basic Flash animations. Did you see an interesting animation on the internet
the other day and discovered that it was done using Macromedia Flash?.
You managed to get the program installed on your machine and now you are
figuring out how to get things moving. The good news is that you are in
the right spot.
An Example
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Place your mouse over the circle. The cross
rotates. Now click on the circle you will find some text appear next
to it.
Wow! that's cool isn't it?
Assuming that you have already gone through the lessons that come along
with the Flash 5 program, I will explain how to create the effect shown
above. Watch for the catch phrase typed in bold at the end. Make sure
you write it down.
Draw a circle and convert it into a button symbol. Inside the button
symbol make a new layer and draw the cross as show above. Make it into
a symbol. Copy the cross symbol in the over state and animate it over
10 frames. In the main time line type out the text that you want to display
when clicked. Convert it into a movie clip and give it a name. Make a
new actions layer and choose:
setProperty ("/movieclip name", _visible, "0");
Now give some action to the button:
on (release) {
setProperty ("/movieclip name", _visible, "1");
}
Try it out. E-mail
me if you get stuck some where.
Whatever you do in Flash make sure to keep your file size as small as
possible.
More Examples
Click to take a Flash
Quiz. The Quiz will open up in a new window and you
can come back to this page by closing the window.
Check out these interesting samples. I'm sure you'll love to make something
like that.
