I NEED HELP!!!

[TheMaskedOutcast]

I have NO IDEA how to use flash, i just got it and i spent almost an hour trying to make a stick figure walk, all i came out with was a deformed retarded looking stick just standing there.... if anyone can give me some advice on how to do ANYTHING on flash...

...my email address is [e-mail] and my AIM screen name is XxMaGiCxMuNkYxX

[CaptainOlimar]

Hey, buddy. I was once in the exact same spot you are now. Oh wait, I haven't left that spot yet. haha

[TheMaskedOutcast]

LOL... yeah, but i'm fucking lost... if you even know how to make something move a little it'll help...

I know, i'm a helpless lil bitch...

[CaptainOlimar]

Make a circle in frame 1. Right-click frame 20, for example, and select Insert Keyframe. In frame 20, move the circle to somewhere else. Right-click frame 20. Select Create Motion Tween. There. Now you made a circle move. lol

[TheMaskedOutcast]

At 2/18/03 11:38 PM, wiseguy316 wrote: Make a circle in frame 1. Right-click frame 20, for example, and select Insert Keyframe. In frame 20, move the circle to somewhere else. Right-click frame 20. Select Create Motion Tween. There. Now you made a circle move. lol

MUAHAHAHAHA!!!! y'know whats lame?... that actually helps alot :/

[dexter-x740]

hey man don't worry ,nobody borns knowing everything, just look for help at the web or look in the flash help that appears when you press F1 , it has been very helpful to me.

[TheMaskedOutcast]

please, anybody just email with techniques or some shit, i don't know, i'm probly the most lost person in flash on earth right now....

..... help.... meh.....

email address - [e-mail]

AIM screen name - XxMaGiCxMuNkYxX

[Mr-Y]

Dude, I'll gladly help you, if it won't take long, since I'm busy often. I'll just leave my E-mail here for you to contact.. too lazy to email you, and I may forget too, since it's 1:10 AM right now at my place and I'm so tired I just want to go to sleep.

BTW, I'm working on a Flash project already now, so the flash skills I know are fresh and not dusty.

My E-mail: [e-mail]

Glad to help, man. Just don't bug me too much, high school life is already hell for me and I'm so busy I can even barely advance on my own flash project.

[Kryogenik]

i can remember my n00b days. the first movie i made was a yellow circle that went across the screen.
but it wasnt a stickman thats the important thing!
i believe if you start with stickmen youll be shit forever

[TheMaskedOutcast]

thanx for all your help guys, and Mr. Y, i will email you and hopefully you can turn me into a flash master ^_^

[TheMaskedOutcast]

COME ON!!! FUCKING HELP ME! i'm possibly the most clueless person in flash right now! i'm trying to make a music video right now and i have no idea how to do anything with sound, anything with buttons, and i need to learn how to make things move too! if anybody could PLEASE just help me my email is [e-mail] and my AIM screen name is XxMaGiCxMuNkYxX, pleeeeaaaaase give me some kind of help with flahs, i'm confused to hell

[Mr-Y]

At 2/19/03 07:04 PM, XxMaGiCxXxNiNjAxX wrote: COME ON!!! FUCKING HELP ME! i'm possibly the most clueless person in flash right now! i'm trying to make a music video right now and i have no idea how to do anything with sound, anything with buttons, and i need to learn how to make things move too! if anybody could PLEASE just help me my email is [e-mail] and my AIM screen name is XxMaGiCxMuNkYxX, pleeeeaaaaase give me some kind of help with flahs, i'm confused to hell

O music? LOL by this time I already sent 2 Emails toward your inbox and don't want to fill it up so I'm gonna post some help here on the BBS. I didn't read this post before I sent the E-mails, so I forgot to help you in the emails.

I am unfamiliar with MX even though I've already had it for a while - I hardly ever tried to use it, because once I was trying to make the switch from 5 to MX I saw that everything was so different. I donno how I actually managed to switch from FLASH 4 to 5, o yeah, because at that time I was a n00b at this, and didn't know how much anyway.

What I'm gonna post next works on FLASH 5... I'm not sure if it's different on FLASH MX, because I've never tried it.

[Mr-Y]

Sounds / Music
One of the ways of adding sounds in FLASH 5 is to go to File/Open As Library, change ur "FILE TYPE" drop-down menu in the select file window to "ALL TYPES", select a sound file, and drag it to your library. Then, on the frames where you want the sound to play on, either go to the sound panel and select the sound file in the library from there, or just drag the sound file from the library to the body of the frame you want it to play on.

[Mr-Y]

Buttons
Either make something on your frame and go to Insert/Convert to Symbol while selecting it to turn it into a button, or go to Insert/New Symbol (Hotkey: F8) and start from there (you can do the same thing when you make a graphic or movie clip). Everytime you want to add the button you made, go to the library and drag it out onto your frame. It's that simple. Go to the actions window of the button to add actionscript. Some simple commands in actionscript are very easy, and some are very complicated and hard - if you want to know more about actionscript, contact me, because I don't want to fill this topic with all kinds of junk you may not even read - I'll post or E-mail that only when you ask for it. By the way, if you want to make a button work, make sure that you make the frame stop, unless if its a moving button, because if you don't, it could just flash in the movie for a fraction of a second and not give the user enough time to click it.

[TheMaskedOutcast]

thanx ALOT for all the help, and don't worry about filling up my email, i check it alot and i dont really get email from any other people. i got your emails and replied with one, hopefully i'll get the hang of this, i wanna be able to make pasterpieces like 8-bit theater and xiao xiao...