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Flash basics for a pre-beginner

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	ok, let's see... 1. yup, i think flash would work well for the basic concept of what you want to do 2. for basic stuff, simple keyed animation, it's not too hard. go thru the tutorials included in the Flash help (in the actual program) and you should be able to do the basic stuff you want to pretty quick. 3. you'll have to save out each piece separately, and as i'm assuming you'll have them going over backgrounds, etc., you may want to save them out as PNGs with an alpha channel so as to preserve their transparency in Flash. 4. think of actionscript and flash animation as being like javascript working with html. you can make a page in just html, but javascript makes some things easier and let's you do more than you could with just html. but you could still make a page with html and it would work fine. actionscript is mostly used for advanced interactivity, interaction with the mouse, prpgrammatic movement, etc. you can animate some things with actionscript (that's how most physics-based stuff, like josh davis' stuff at [url=http://www.praystation.com/]praystation[/url] is done) but it's not necessary for most things. simple actionscript is used for basic tasks within flash (goto frame, mouse actions on release, stop, loadMovie, etc.) 5. my advice would be to pick up the Foundation Flash 5 book from Friends of ED, best intro book to flash i've seen and it'll answer a LOT of your questions. hope that helps. chris [img]http://www.notdecaf.com/misc/newsig.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.KAIROSinteractive.com/]KAIROSinteractive[/url] Loading...
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