Happy New Years everyone -- David Brewer ...more >>

Neodevilbane hey the subject of the movie is about one of my countries century's ago leader. How come u write about him?...more >>

I'll get it out now, I'm a total newbie with flash..and of course, I'm attempting to perform a difficult task as a first project. A friend of mine has a site, http://www.spytech-web.com, that includes a flash based logo. If you look at the logo, he has a spherical globe in place that has a h...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash and I'm having some hard trouble rotating an object, so I would like to pose a few questions. Question 1: What I want to do is to rotate an arbitrary angle without ActionScript, so the CW and CCW Rotate are not an option. This leaves me with the "Auto" option...more >>

Hi I'm pretty new to Flash and I am looking to build a banner that fades in / out 10 - 12 different quotes over time. What would be the best way of approaching this without building a huge timeline? I can imagine making 10 -12 MC's containing the quotes (and transitional animation) but I'm ...more >>

Hello! I have a problem and i hope that someone can help me. Here is my problem: I am creating a kind of educational software and i use cult 3D in it. In a lesson for example i have a 2D representation in flash in witch the user can move a line. In a other part of the screen i have a 3D repres...more >>

I downloaded this preloader that Rick was generous to post: www.doubleclicdesign.com/dev/preloader/preloaderTemplate.fla I added it as a new scene and moved that scene in front of my existing scene. It works but it re-runs when my clip loops. What do I need to change to prevent this ? ...more >>

I'm sure I'll figure it out from here, thank you!...more >>

Gotcha, thank you. That brings up a little popup with all the transitions and images I've inserted into my movie... but I'm still not clear on the following parts you wrote above : "So you have your movie in the library. Drag it to the stage." I don't see it anywhere to drag... let al...more >>

I'm a total newbie at Flash - I'm learning it as I go along. The question I have is probably an advanced one, but I'll shoot for the stars. Okay, I want to create a window that has a transparent background. In other words, I get to decide the shape of the window. It's kind of like Winamp ...more >>

Super dumb question... how do I access the library panel? Following you fine on the rest....more >>

Newbie here... to Flash, at least. I'm trying to create a webpage layout in Illustrator and will hand this file to someone better at Flash. However, I'm trying to make sure my drawings import correctly (as they are not familiar with Illustrator). Problem is, the import/export of my drawings...more >>

Hi, firstly, make a button. give it an instance name of butt_btn make your movie. give it an instance name of movie_mc Add an actions layer and put this code in butt_btn.onRelease = function() { _root.movie_mc.gotoAndPlay(1); } To stop it looping you need to decide if you wan...more >>

Hi I'm trying to do an animation in Flash 5 to demonstrate the effects of adding the primary colours using the circular "beams" of red, blue and green "spotlights" to create the secondary colours where the circles overlap. To start with, I'd like to move two colored circles (eg. red & bl...more >>

Hello all, I am hoping for some help with creating a 3D model from CAD and then create an interactive demo in Flash. Does anyone have any experience with this? What is the standard method for creating a 3D model in flash from a CAD drawing? I could always build the product from scratch in a 3D p...more >>

Concerned about creating a flash corporate site. Does xml text imported into flash help searchabilty in search engines like google? How about regular external text? Are either a better choice to attract the spiders? ...more >>

Hi all, happy new year. I am somewhat of a newbie...I am working in a single framed movie and I have a dynamic text field that contains a number, which changes over time. I want to run a small set of actions (A) when this field contains either "6" or "8" - otherwise do some other actions....more >>

Okay I got a short video on my timeline of a person being interviewed (inserted in timeline) I see it is like 800 frames long. I want to try and make a "animated portrait" of the person. That is, take a few frames where they are beginning to smile and animate this elsewhere in a header ...more >>

Yeah the preloader loads, then it waits like 2-3 seconds before going into the main movie. Never used to do this? Also, other animations suchs as movie clips within movie clips also lag for like 3 seconds before going into their animations. Any ideas? Thank You, M4R ...more >>

Happy new year to you all I was wondering how the effects on these two websites are achieved. Have they used pre built effects in flash or have they used some other programs as well. I will like to achieve this for my website, but none of my books reference this. The websites are www....more >>

Hi Can anyone help. I am trying to export a flash movie to a png sequence however I am unable to do it successfully. The exported sequence only shows the items on the main time line. ie. I have a movie clip that is on the main time line and after 60 frames this movie clip tweens from the l...more >>

As a learning project I am basically seeking to replicate the banner-look you see at the Macromedia homepage. Easy enough? Sort of. I have tried several different methods, but my look is sloppy. First tried creating the rounded rectangle with the tiny drop shadow (easy), with a mask that woul...more >>