Complex Button Animations?

[supaSphoje]

Anyone know of any good websites or video tutorials about working with buttons in flash?

I'm going to be helping someone out with revamping some instructional videos and some of them involve button clicking where part of an object moves the more you press a button. The best example I can give is like, altering a pullie's placement on a machine and seeing how it reacts with other objects and also being able to interact with other parts of the machine that can interact with the pullie like where a rope attached to it can go. Sorry if that's not the best example, though I'm not sure If I'm allowed to specify what I'm going to be doing.

Any one know where I can learn how to pull this stuff off, or if it can be pulled off in flash at all? I've seen it work on basic kid websites with different science experiments and homestarrunner has a lot of user interaction with the videos and games.

[Hero101]

Any one know where I can learn how to pull this stuff off, or if it can be pulled off in flash at all?

This is totally possible with / in Flash. Just requires knowing how to code. With your example (although it was a bit confusing) it would require more code than you might think. You didn't state if you already know how to code so I can't just say start at the beginning with tutorials for Actionscript 3 (dozens of starter pages across the web). With the interactivity you mention in your example most of your buttons wouldn't be the "button" objects in Flash but rather Movieclips that you when then hard code any MouseOver, MouseDown, ect... as well as making it do things like shift objects on the stage.

[supaSphoje]

At 4/28/14 12:06 AM, Hero101 wrote:

Any one know where I can learn how to pull this stuff off, or if it can be pulled off in flash at all?

This is totally possible with / in Flash. Just requires knowing how to code. With your example (although it was a bit confusing) it would require more code than you might think. You didn't state if you already know how to code so I can't just say start at the beginning with tutorials for Actionscript 3 (dozens of starter pages across the web). With the interactivity you mention in your example most of your buttons wouldn't be the "button" objects in Flash but rather Movieclips that you when then hard code any MouseOver, MouseDown, ect... as well as making it do things like shift objects on the stage.

Alright thanks for the info! I'll definitely look into that. I have no idea how to code in flash (though I've seen how to access the actionscript codes so I'm somewhat familiar), but I'll certainly learn it as best I can. I've got a few sources that might be able to help me at home too, but it's good to know where to start. Thanks again!

[Hero101]

Alright thanks for the info! I'll definitely look into that. I have no idea how to code in flash (though I've seen how to access the actionscript codes so I'm somewhat familiar), but I'll certainly learn it as best I can. I've got a few sources that might be able to help me at home too, but it's good to know where to start. Thanks again!

No problem. I advise learning to use AS3 (actionscript 3.0) rather than AS2 because that language is really old. You sound familiar with Flash so your knowledge of movieclips will helps. If you have any issues with your code post it in the Flash forum and people will be able to help you - just be sure to post all your relevant code in your post (and use the code tags on the left side of screen to make it easier for us to read). You could also PM directly if you need to but I'm still learning. I've only been at it for a few months now and finished my first game but I still have so much to learn.

Best of luck to you!