I was getting the idea to do an arcadey shooter in Flash, something nice and fast paced with plenty of action and eye-candy. The only real problem is that I'm at the moment, a flash-n00b, although time and practice will rectify that...
Anyways, beyond the really obvious stuff(which is in the tutorials or right in front of your face), there's only one real thing I'm still not sure how to do... Parallax scrolling. Hard to explain, but basically it creates a pseudo-3D effect by making different parts of the screen scroll at different rates... Does anyone know what graphical effects are involved*?
*note: if possible, a solution more elegant than manually programming each part of the screen to scroll at a different rate, if it wasnt done perfectly, it would tear:
---------- This part scrolls fast
--------- This part doesn't scroll quite as fast
-------- This part scrolls slowly
--------- See line 2
---------- See line 1