Flash :: Creating Animated Flames?

Looking For Some Animated Flames For A Background
I need to find some animated flames so i can use them in a background i found the one on this site. And ive search for them on the web, does anyone know where i can find some realistic looking flames? Thank you. I still havent gotten the sound to play on a movie on the rollover.

Animated Flames In Flash?
Has anyone seen or ever attempted to produce animated flames in flash that are tastefully done. If you have seen or created anything like this please let me know.......

cheers

Help On Creating Animated Buttons
i've created animation for rollover and down buttons...& converted it to movie clip..

When i run it, 'roll-over' animation works fine...but my 'down' mc doesn't load when i click with my mouse. It only works if i press-hold over the roll-over button then i can see the it.

how can i make 'down' mc appear when i just click over the roll-over button??

do i need action scrip somewhere - separate scene?? i hope this make sense--

i'm going crazy trying to figure it out...

plz help..i'm so new at this!!!

Creating Animated Desktops
Hey guys,

Do any of you know how I could make a flash animation into a desktop background, other than by uploading it on the web and displaying the address? I want to make it available offline aswell as online.

Creating Animated Cartoons
Hi there!

I just started playing around with flash yesterday. I'm a big fan
of all those great flash movies, like (my current favourites) Happy Tree Friends and especially iLL WiLL Press!

I really would like to do such things, too. Just for fun. I spend hours
of searching good Flash Tutorials about that topic, but somehow
i only found tutorials about basics which you even can learn with
those basic tutorials which the Flash program (I'm using MX 2004) itself delivers.

Could anyone tell me what techniques are used to create such great flash movies? I already tried to create some characters, I'm not very good, i guess,
but i still want to try. For example lets take my first draw:

You could animate it frame by frame, but i think by using Flash it could
be much easier, at least i hope so. How can i for example just move/rotate the arm or the legs around in a whole with tweens so that i don't have to do everything on my own?
How can you draw such movies in an efficient way? Should i make a symbol of every body part? What about "sub-animations" like the different smiles of a face and so on?

I'm very grateful for every answer, please consider that i just started Flash yesterday! :'-)

Creating An Animated Bird
I am trying to incorporate a "near realistic" animated bird into my website, but I don't know how to go about it. I want the bird perching, and later flying away just as birds do. I was hoping may be someone can point me in the right direction. Anyone seen something like this done before? thanks

Creating Scripted, Animated Mc's
Here's what I'm trying to achieve

Load images(thumbnails) from a directory into a mc.
When selecting that image, it loads a large version into a new mc.
This mc (plain white box) should start to appear at a given x and y coordinate on release action.
For a period of no longer than a second, the white box completes the animated loading from top to bottom, with a bit of easing as it completes the load.
The main image is then loaded into/over the white box mc.
Depending on the number of thumbnails loaded, a navigation system (numbered from 1 to however many thumbnails are in directory) appears below the images, in the main timeline.

Where and how would I even begin?

thanks,
- Fabman

Creating A Animated Button
i know how to make a basic roll over button but how do i create these buttons i see on web with many frams of animation when if you make a new button symbol you only get 4? thanks

Creating Animated Flag
Hi all,

Just wondered if there are any ways to create an animated flag such as this:

http://files.swish-tutorials.com/files.php?act=file&id=1482 - and launch the preview to see what I mean...

Or if there are any fla. file to download as I would need to edit the content on the flag. Or if anyone could do this I would be willing to pay.

Thanks!

Creating Animated Buttons
U guys know the action script 2 tutorials?
i'm not able to make it in 3.0
how can i do that?

Creating Animated Buttons -Help-
Hello there, i have learned how to make animated buttons with the "Creating Animated Buttons" tutorial.

Now i have a more dynamic and stylish portfolio, so many thanks to http://www.gotoandlearn.com

i want to add a more dynamic user experience and i'm trying to add an exit state for the buttons that allow me to fade out them or other effects inside the buttons movieclips

there are a "OVER" and "OUT" states in the tutorial but if i add a new one which send the button movie to other frame or frame laber in the button i dont know how to disable de rollover function that doesn't let the button go and play where i want.

//here is the code on the first frame of the movie

b4.onRollOver = over;
b4.onRollOut = out;
b4.movietexto.textoboton.text="TV";

function over() {
this.gotoAndPlay("on");
}

function out() {
this.gotoAndPlay("off");
}

any help are welcome ;-)

To Creating Animated Buttons
I?m a new flash learner from Germany ! Sorry about my not perfect english !

I don?t get the right actionscript function to let work your animated buttons to another side. Simply linking each button.

I do it that way:

this.onRelease = function(){

getURL("http://www.google.com","_blank");

}

....thanks for helping me ... mik

Creating Animated Flowcharts
Hi all,

I'm trying to develop a web site (PHP) that will allow the mainframe develop team to spot a particular task/process in a big flowchart.
All I have now is several flowcharts in visio format which I can export to image (gif, jpeg, tiff, etc).
What I want to do, but don't know how, is after the user enters the name of the task he's looking for, fetch the image that contains the task and do something that will show it in a different way (different color, bigger, whatever) from the surrounding tasks.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Creating An Animated Page Of A Book
Does anyone know how to create an animated book in Flash? We are trying to animate each page in a book, so when you click on the next page, the page turns.

We'd appreciate your thoughts!

Creating Flash Animated Backgrounds
I want to create a Flash Animated Background like one on this site http://www.hyraf.com. How would I do that?

Creating Animated Stick Figure
I want to animate the creation of a stick figure. I want it to look like it's being drawn from head to feet in the animation. Any help would be great.

ruv@comcat.net

Having Trouble Creating An Animated Button
Hi guys. I'm having a lot of trouble creating an animated button. All I want is the plain old standard two arrows that that have a kind of glowing effect before the mouse scrolls over it. I've tried creating a mask with a blurred rectangle that moves along the arrows and I thought it worked for a second but once I put that movie clip into the UP position for the button it didn't work. Meaning, there was no repeating glowing effect happening before I scrolled over it. If that makes any sense could someone please help? Thanks!

OOPS! I'm using Flash CS3. I dont know how to go back and change that.

Creating Symbol From Animated Layer
Hi all. Newbie post here.

I created an animation of a stick figure in my flash project, then decided that I wanted to make it a symbol. Is there some way to make the animation/set of frames part of the symbol? When I select the layer and its frames, "convert to symbol" becomes dimmed (because it's a layer maybe). But other attempts have resulted in my just getting the original stick figure over and not the sequence.

I am probably overlooking something obvious, but I can't figure it out!

Thanks for any help.

Karen

Creating Animated Buttons In A Menu
I am trying to build a flash website with an animated menu at the top. Here is how I did it:

Each element of the menu is a movie clip. Within the movie clip, there is a motion tween that animates the menu item. Over the motion tween is an invisible button with the following script:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("startmotion");
}

on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay("finishmotion");
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("about", "about1");

In the "on (release)" script, "about" is the scene I want to the button to go to, and "about1" is the frame label in the "about" scene that I want to start on.

The rollovers and rollouts work perfectly, but when I click on the buttons when I'm testing the movie, the buttons do not direct me to any scene. Nothing happens.

Any thoughts about what I'm doing wrong? I think it possibly has to do with having the invisible button within the movie clip, but I can't think of another way to do it. Also, I have tried using _root.gotoAndPlay and that does not work either.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Creating Animated Rollover Buttons...
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flas...edrollover.htm

Hi!

I just finished the above tutorial, albeit in Flash MX 2004.

I could make the effect, (I could see it when I pushed "play movie") but could not get it to happen on rollover. I assume this is an actionscript thing, could anyone walk me through it?

Thank you!

Automatically Creating An Animated Preview SWF
Hi all,

I'm developing a Flash games site, and I would like to create an animated preview SWF for each game. Right now I have 15 games, but as I begin to develop more and more games, it's getting very tricky to limit how much code I am repeating. Can anyone out there recommend a sound way to create an animated preview of a game without having to repeat too much? Animating my own 15 second clips for each game is an option, and so is using a screen capture program to allow me to record actual gameplay. Both of these options don't seem very pragmatic in the long run, however, should any changes need to be made across the board.

What do you think? Can anyone recommend a concise way to create these preview video SWFs?

Help With Creating Animated Buttons // Clicked?
Using the helpful info from the creating animated buttons tutorial, I have created a nav which I really like. I would like to add a feature, but I am having problems figuring out how to do it. I would like the button to remain in the 'over' state when the visitor clicks it.

I searched this forum already and followed this thread...

http://gotoandlearn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1194

I followed both Hasan's & Umbrella's examples, but unfortunately I could not get the onRelease state to work. I was hoping someone could help me out. I can email you my FLA to have a look.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Creating A Link For Animated Buttons
I need help, I recently completed the animated button tutorial and I thought it was great for what I am trying to do. I just have one problem, I do not know how to make the buttons link to the pages I want them to go to. If someone could help me with the problem I would really appreciate it.

Thank you

Snake

Creating Animated Buttons Tutorial
Hi guys another novice here lol sorry to bother u all

I have just completed the tutorial on creating animated buttons and it works great but I'm stuck on actually making them live buttons and making them go anywhere (to another scene or web page). The tutorial finishes with them still all being movie clips????? i'm so confused.

do i have to convert them to buttons or do i have to write some code toeeling then where to go if clicked?????? etc etc

I have always been told there are no stupid questions only stupid people.
(I'm not so sure)

Looking forward you any help anyone can give me -x-

Creating Animated Buttons Question
I've taken the Creating Animated Buttons tutorial...

How do I link the buttons to webpages?

Flames
Hi,

Can anybody tell me how I can make realistic flames in Flash?(or anything in that kind...)

Thanks in advance
Greetings
Camme

Flames
Looking for some help or a tutorial somewhere for the effect of flames blowing out an exaust of a car. Kind of cartoon-ish looking. Everything I find is just regular fire which has no "velocity" like a flame thrower, or exaust flame might.

Flames
Forgive me...I'm dusting off my Flash skills and jumping back into since Flash 4.....

I'm trying to do some animated flames that I will Alpha out a bit for a background, with other photos fading in and out over it....

Anybody either have a usable clip of flames or maybe send me in the right direction?

Creating An Animated Imageviewer (like Photographer Sites)
Flash 5.

Right, hope my explaination will make any sense to anyone, but here goes nothing.

I want to create an imageviewer. So say you have 4 buttons, on click button 1 the right photo (nr. 1 that is) should appear in the desired spot(which photo depending on which button you click).

Easy peasy you say, but no, it's not

The thing I want to create:
> the photo slides in from the left or right
> when another photo (no matter which one) replaces the current one, it has to slide visable over the other one. So not with a normal MC that you constantly see the photo slide over an empty background (if you want to allow people not to follow a fixed patern).

So, is this possible and how?

Thanks so much!

Creating Animated Masks With Movie Clips
Using Flash MX 2004 for DUMMIES, I'm trying to create an animated mask. They suggest the following: Create two movie clips and place them on two separate layers. Enter an instance name for both. On frame 1 of the layer that will be used as the mask, add the action:

InstanceName.setMask( );

Put the instance name for the masked animation between the ( ). Replace "InstanceName" with the instance name for the background movie clip.

But once I add the action and go to test the movie, the screen is blank. Any suggestions. Your help is appreciated.

Creating High Quality Animated Gifs
Hello,

I have been trying to create high quality animated gifs with flash mx. I cant use and gradients or bitmaps because they end up being all messed up.

But, On the web i see all sorts of animated gifs with full gradients and photos.

Can i do this with Flash, if so, what settings should i use........... or should i use different software for this. ( i am a macintosh user)

Creating A Walking, Animated Character (Flash 5)
Hello,

I’m very new to flash (I’m using Flash 5) and would like to get better at animating. Right now have been doing frame by frame animations but I would like to do a longer animation featuring a walking character. I don’t want to animate the same thing by hand over and over so I was wondering is there a way to make a looped animation of a character walking that I could drag across the screen (like how Homestar Runner walks across the screen in the cartoons, usually while talking.) If you could point me in the direction of a tutorial or if you can explain to me how to do it I would be very thankful. Here are my first two completed test animations:

http://img307.imageshack.us/my.php?i...kingguy5js.swf

http://img307.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ball9jd.swf

Creating Animated Buttons And Loading SWFs
Hi,

I have searched the forums and read responses to similar postings, viewed tutorials, but I am still not clear as to the best approach to creating animated buttons that can also load external SWFs.

What I can do:
-Create an animated button as a MC symbol, and use a timeline within it to setup over, press, release states along the timeline and apply the necessary actions to jump to those titled frames.
-Create a simple button as a Button symbol, and apply simple tinting, etc, to the different states within the 4 frames.

What I am unclear about:
-can code be applied to both MCs and Buttons Symbols to load external SWFs?
-is it more sensible to use the Loader or loadMovie?
-can a button that was created as a MC with timeline have on (release) applied to it to gotoAndPlay a frame?

Thanks in advance!!!
-Casper

CReating An Animated Flash Drop Down Menu
Hi. I am a beginner. Is there any simple way to create an animated flash drop down menu that can be used to overlap content on an html web page?
Is there anywhere that you guys that point me that can offer tutorials on how to do this?
Regards
dali

Creating Animated And Cool Flash Backgrounds
A number of top flash sites have a wonderful background effect, in which the borders draw themselves, or the outline of the movie tweens in.

What is the way to create this? I tried very hard, but could not find any tutorial....maybe because i am not aware of the technical terms.

Is anyone able to share a tutorial, or some tips on how to do this??

Thanks!

Creating Animated Buttons Tutorial :: Customizing...?
#1. these tutorials are brilliant. very well constructed and incredibly useful reference material. thank you for all your hard work Lee (and the moderators).

#2. I have a question about tweaking the animated buttons in the Creating Animated Buttons Tutorial. I've set up each nav option to load an external .swf (PORTFOLIO.SWF, RESUME.SWF, etc.), my question is how would you get the buttons to stay in their "OVER" state when in the section that corresponds to them?

thanks!

Tutorial Creating Animated Buttons | How To A Add A GetURL ?
Hey Lee,

I was wondering how I can get the buttons to link to an *.html file. Thanks for any help.

b1.buttText.buttonText.text = "link 1"
b2.buttText.buttonText.text = "link 2"
b3.buttText.buttonText.text = "link 3"

Creating An Instance Of A Papervision3D Animated Class
I,

I created a Papervision animated class Main.as that is perfectly working by itself.
In other words,when Main.as is always compiled on Flash Develop, it is working fine.

But when I try to create a new instance of this class in another objet (instance of Main2.as), I have an Error #1009.

Here is the code of the Main2.as, animation being an instance of my PV3D animated class :

Code:

Code:

package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class Main2 extends Sprite
{

public function Main2()
{
var animation:Main = new Main();
addChild(animation);
}
}
}

What should I do to make it work?

Thanks in advance for you help,

Korbn

Creating Animated Buttons - Nesting Issues
I was using the code from Lee's tutorial on animated buttons and wanted to make each layer of buttons animated like the top layer - for some reason I can't get the nested buttons to execute the function to animate. anyone know why?

Here is the code within the first animated button:

m1.onRollOver = mouseover;
m1.onRollOut = mouseout;
m1.buttTextMC.buttTextMC.text = "print";

m2.onRollOver = mouseover;
m2.onRollOut = mouseout;
m2.buttTextMC.buttTextMC.text = "web";

m3.onRollOver = mouseover;
m3.onRollOut = mouseout;
m3.buttTextMC.buttTextMC.text = "multimedia";

m4.onRollOver = mouseover;
m4.onRollOut = mouseout;
m4.buttTextMC.buttTextMC.text = "video";

function mouseover() {
this.gotoAndPlay(2)
}

function mouseout() {
this.gotoAndPlay(11);
}

Any ideas? Thanks!

Flames On Text?
Anyone know how to add flames to text??

Flames Animation?
I need an animation of flames 4 my intropage, does anyone know where i can find one.

Looking For A Flames Tutorial & Other Simple Q
Hi

Does anyone know where I can find a good tutorial of about how to create a cartoony animated flame effect in flash ?

Any help would be great!

Also is there any way to create a vector image in fireworks and import it into flash as a vector when i import it comes in as a png and doesnt look as good stretched!

Realistic Dancing Flames
how do i achieve this.

ive done it before and it turned out great but im having trouble replicating the same again.

any help appreciated.

thanks

Realistic Flames/smoke...anyone Done Them?
I am in the process of designing my new Flash based website and wanted to have some fire and smoke in the certain parts. They will be important to the mood of certain scenes and I was wondering what the best way might be for doing it. The site interface and design will be traditionally painted and scanned in, then the animated elements (like the flames, smoke, magic effects) will be put on top of that. I could hand animate frames for the smoke and flames but I don't know how to make the edges partially transparent as smoke would be. Any help is much appreciated.

Here is a QUICK color mockup of the main page of the site. This is just the sketch of the main page scanned in and colored very quickly in Photoshop:

LittleFenris.com v.01

Each of those buildings/sites will also be a button to take you to each of the gallery sections. This will be a portfolio site for my illustration and design work. When you click on either the buttons on the bottom, or the corresponding buttons it will take you to a closeup or interior scene of that building and that is where the campfire/torch light will be needed.

How Can I Get Smoke And Flames In Flash?
I just found this website. I'm really impressed. How can smoke and flames like this in flash?
Thanks
Cool Smoke and Flames

The Heat, Flames, On The Side Of My Face, Burning
I'm livid right now with frustration of Macromedia's referenceing and their organization of manual information!

I can't find a definition anywhere (at least not directly) of what the hell the
'Track as menu item' for button behaviour means..

Anyone know?

Creating Animated Flames?

Anyone know any good tutorials or open sourse for this?