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29th October 2007

Week 6 Practical

Your blog this week should contain the title of your Flash project (you should have completed your research) and a storyboard for the complete site i.e. you should have decided what you are going to do on each of the four pages. Remember, each page should contain a different Flash component, for example if you have used tweening on your intro page don't keep repeating it on the other pages. You should have some functioning buttons by now and keep lots of back ups. By next week you should have a storyboard for the intro page and four linked pages.

Week 6 Practical

If you not already tried tracing in Flash, please do so in this weeks practical class. Import an image into Flash, convert it to a symbol and reduce the alpha channel. Lock the layer and put another layer on top. Using the drawing tools trace around the image. When you have finished delete the image below.

Buttons Tutorials (I have also attached a downloadable buttons document on week 5)

How to use a link to change between scenes tutorial (courtesy of webwasp.co.uk)

Adding buttons tutorial (courtesy of webwasp.co.uk)

How to create a dropdown menu tutorial (courtesy of webwasp.co.uk)

Movie Clip Tutorials ... we will look at movie clips in this weeks
Wednesday class.

These tutorials are a little more advanced, give them a go but don't panic if you get lost. At this planning stage of your project it is more important that you know what Flash can do rather than being able to master it straight off!

Initializing Movie tutorial (courtesy of Metrov )

The attachMovie method places a movieclip (from the current SWF's library) on the stage in real time tutorial (courtesy of Evgueni Strok and Jesse Stratford )

To duplicateMovieClip we need a Movie Clip (MC) which will be duplicated. In this example we made a MC_1 with Instance name "box" tutorial (courtesy of Evgueni Strok )