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Score: 9

"great tutorial!"

by: greenday-punk

date: April 20, 2006

that was a very helpful...nice menu aswell. Loved the music, all Disturbed if im not mistaken? Somehow it went well with the tutorial, which helped me. Keep up the good work, hope to see more tutorials from you.

Score: 5

"A few problems in an otherwise acceptable tutorial"

by: MCSMstudios

date: March 21, 2006

Please accept this as constructive criticism.
Starting with the preloader. I'm not sure how I can accept your advice on making a preloader when yours didn't work properly. The bar moved out and filled the space repeatedly while the movie loaded, most preloaders fill up as a function of the amount of the flash that has loaded (not to mention I was gazing at a white screen for like 8 seconds while the preloader loaded). Also it started in the middle, not really a huge deal but I prefer the traditional left to right action. On the plus side you had the courtesy to use a border. (It really grinds my gears when the bar has no end and you can't tell how close it is to finishing.
Now onto the Frame-by-Frame. It's good that you provided an example movie, but it should have shown more action in the figures, like guys running or jumping. And your method is a bit risky. A better method (in my opinion) is to create the beginning and end looks for a character and fill in the middle (I'm not going into too much detail here) instead of doing it chronologically which can cause scaling problems along with varied speeds of movement.
As for the AS, it was very simple and unnecessary. Most, if not all, of the info you provided can be found with the material that comes with Flash (with a lot more detail, no less). At least you didn't steal a game engine and give it to newbs who don't know how to use it.
The menu seemed a bit slow at times and somewhat difficult to navigate at points (most of the time it was fine, but some points were annoying).
A nice effort but it seems a few more minutes of brushing it up would greatly improve it. Good luck with your next Flash.

Score: 10

"DISTURBED"

by: ZumperT

date: March 20, 2006

MEANING OF LIFE RULZ

Score: 10

"wow"

by: Emerald-The-Edgehog

date: March 20, 2006

i hardly ever see tutorials that involve actionscript

Score: 9

"That was the best tutorial yet!!!"

by: Zephrim

date: March 20, 2006

Not only was it educational, but fun too. You did fantastic in every department. The selections of music was beyond anything I've seen here yet, needless to say it made me happy. The little movie you threw in was also great, and all in all I found this to be all around good viewing.

Score: 6

"SOMEONES a disturbed fan...."

by: Gatto

date: March 20, 2006

As a fan of disturbed myself, you immediately recieved a devent score from me.

But anyway, this is good, a nice tutorial for people who arent versed with flash. Well done.

Score: 9

"Alright there!"

by: Vampire-Addict

date: March 20, 2006

An FBF tutorial --- we don't see many of them around here , the only gripes that I had was that It used a stick character instead of a more complex drawing , nonetheless, it did help out

Preloader Tutorial --- The fairly easy one is just the Ng preloader :P
The difficult one actually teaches how to make one so that's good.

Sound : It had several tracks which we could choose so that's pretty good

Interactivity : It had buttons that allowed me to go back and forth as well as go to the main menu so everything's good here.

Preloader/Intro : Pretty good , shows how much effort you put into this . A big + to your movie.

Score: 8

"good"

by: cheeselikesubstance

date: March 20, 2006

only problem was it really wasn't 3-step... more like 3-part or 3-topic... but I'm just a weird grammar nazi so ignore me.

Score: 7

"It is okay."

by: Dark-Volcano-Sam

date: March 20, 2006

I know better tutorials than this, but it is still a save. Maybe, you can place demonstrations on the ActionScript to better understand the commands in a typical AS situation. EX: you can demonstrate how to design a "movie control" menu or create a simple "dress-up" game. If you check out some of the better tutorials, especially the AS tutorial, you will see what I mean. Improve on it! I know you can do better than this!

By the way, is SWiSHMax a good alternative? It has these filters, like blur as such. I do not know. All I know is Flash 8 cost my house payment, and the other one is less than $100. Also, some great Flash movies in NG are made from SWiSHMax. I got Flash MX, but I want a better program.

Score: 10

"=)"

by: PaNDoRa

date: March 20, 2006

Thank you so much! I've tried sticks earlier today i didnt understand how to make it move without drawing the whole thing over again(i just started flash today)so thanks hopefully ill learn how to do this and make some good movies..i hope lol well ty a lot i hope this passes i already know it is.=P