20 tutorials for MX Flash 8, Flash CS3 and actionscript 3 that’ll help you learn flash. Starting with button tutorials, animation tutorials and so on and ending with essential actionscript 3.0 tutorials.

Rotating a Transparent Cube

3D drawing and manipulating 3D objects is a vast and complex subject. In this easy tutorial, we show simple techniques of dynamically drawing and rotating 3D objects in ActionScript 3.

We begin with simple polygonal objects and end with a parametric surface in 3D. We explain the mathematics behind creating different views of those 3D objects. In our model, the object remains stationary and the observer moves. The position of the observer is determined by two angles corresponding to a horizontal and vertical rotation of the observer.

Beginner’s guide to streaming live video with Flash Media Server 3

This article is the sixth, and last, in a loose series of beginner’s tutorials. This particular tutorial shows you how Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Flash Media Live Encoder 2.5, and Flash Media Server 3 team up so you can create live video streams from your own webcam or other sources.

Realistic Flash Smoke Effect

We will create a realistic smoke effect in Adobe Flash using Actionscript. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to easily adjust the smoke effect with key variables

TUTORIAL: Flash Backrounds

This was done at the request of an Ai buddy of mine, but I also did this for all the people who have been curious as to how I go about creating detailed backgrounds in flash. This treatment is light, but it’s enough to get you started if you’re already somewhat familiar with the Flash interface. I hope this helps you some, I had fun making my first tutorial to share with all of you!

Guided and directed movements

Classic tab menu creation

You will learn to create one of the most widely used web site navigation interfaces in this lesson: the tab menu.

Rotating 3D Objects with the Tween Class in ActionScript 3

In this tutorial, we show how to use the AS3 Tween class and its access to the built-in AS3 collection of ‘easing’ functions to produce interesting rotation effects for 3D objects. To illustrate the idea, we use the following example in which a hexagonal cylinder, drawn at runtime, is being rotated. Our usage of the Tween class is somewhat non-standard. We are tweening a property of an object that does not directly produce a visual change.

Vibration Flash Effect

In my spare time, I often browse through the threads located in the “best of” forum in the kirupaForum. An interesting effect that I discovered during my random scavenger hunts was a vibration effect posted by suprabeener.

Shine Text Flash Effect

n this lesson, I will explain to how to create advanced shine text effect in flash, using the Action Script. You will also see how to use Align Panel (Ctrl+K), how to use instance name and how to apply action script on text. This text effect is very practical and you can use it for some header, banner or something else.

Using the Tween class in Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3

To reduce visual clutter for the user or to save room on the screen, it is useful to hide controls when they are not being used. To make an effect that’s visually appealing, we can use the Tween class to make the panel move smoothly into sight. In this tutorial we will see two different approaches to the mechanics of the “slide” followed by an example in which the sliding panel contains actual controls so we can address the issue about referencing user interface elements that are part of another movieclip (the panel) on the stage. We include a final example to show how the Tween class can enhance the snapping motion associated with drag and drop interaction.

Making a simple player for mp3 loops with a visual equalizer

Animated Shadow in Flash

Customizable Analog Clock in Flash

Rendering FOAM

Loading Images and Spinning Them in 3D in Terms of AS3

In this tutorial, we revisit our image-flipping applet that you can find in the Bridging the Gap section at Flipping a Card Applet in Terms of ActionScript 3 Custom Classes – Take 1. In this ‘Take 1′ tutorial, we made the first step toward moving the code away from the Timeline and encapsulating it in custom AS3 classes. In particular, we created the FlipImageSimple class that took over the functionality of spinning images

ActionScript 3 Experiment: A Rotating Bitmap in 3D Explodes into Particles

The engaging visual effect presented here was created by Dan Gries for flashandmath.com. Dan is a friend of flashandmath.com. Enjoy the applet. Download the complete source code from the link below and experiment on your own.

Dynamic Circle/Circle Collision Detection in ActionScript 3

Determining whether 2 circles are colliding is one of the simplest types of collision detection. You simply evaluate the sum of the circles’ radii and the distance between them. If that sum is greater than the distance, the circles in question are coincident. This call is made at each time step in a simulation.

This works well in most cases and is most often optimized to evaluate the square of the sum of the radii and the square of the distance between circles- which offers the same response without an expensive square root call.

Animated Zoom Blur in Flash CS3

Some Flash effects never seem to go out of style. One such classic is a zoom-blur effect used on photographs that’s much more eye-catching than simply zooming in or out on the image. In this tutorial, we’ll combine Flash CS3 with Photoshop CS3 to create a similar zoom-blur effect on a photo. These techniques can be applied to any Photoshop filters and experimentation is the key here. Integrating Flash and Photoshop is now easier than ever thanks to the improved workflow features of Creative Suite 3.

Looping video backdrops in Flash

Perfect looping video can be a real eye-catcher when used within a website. And thanks to the advances in video compression within Flash 8, video can be used in websites in a similar way to static images. The results are often stunning and can help focus a user’s attention on key areas, or add some spice to an otherwise run-of-the-mill experience.

Accessing displayObjects on the timeline after a gotoAndStop or gotoAndPlay

I have been meaning to add this to my blog for quite some time now. I have read a few postings related to this topic but I am surprised there aren’t a lot more people complaining about this. Personally I feel Adobe really dropped the ball with this bug. I guess I should explain what the bug is before I go on.