Tutorials
Welcome to the Foundation Flash tutorials. These will start by introducing you to the Flash interface and teaching you the basics that any Flash developer should know. So they will start simple and work up to more complicated things like ActionScript (AS), but generally on the subject of game development. I have seen many tutorials around the internet, and what I HATE is that hardly any of them explain the ActionScript. These tutorials will be different and go into great detail on everything, even on the advanced tutorials, and we will never mention anything without explaining it, unless we know that we have a tutorial ON THIS SITE that has already explained it. Oh, and one more thing, our tutorials are all free and always will be! Well, let's begin...
Basic tutorials requiring no code
These are the basic tutorials. They will give you an insight into the workings of Flash. Hopefully, if you follow them, your appetite will be wetted for more ideas and tutorials. It is advised you follow them in order, but if you already have some experience, feel free to jump in at any point. These do not have any code, and are therefore suitable for use with both ActionScript versions. The last two talk about the maths needed for successful Flash programming.
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| Intro to Flash / Download | The Interface | The Timeline | The Toolbox | The Align and Library Panels |
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| Motion Tweening | Shape Tweening | Easing, Rotation and Motion Guides | Movie Clips | Buttons |
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| Masking | How to link library symbols | Angles and Lengths | Reverse Angles | Blur filter tween |
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| Shape Hints | SWF protection | Bitmap to vector | Backwards compatibility |
ActionScript 3 Tutorials
ActionScript 3.0 was publicly released in CS3, and is radically different form ActionScript 2.0, but a damn sight more complicated to the basic programmer. As is it so new, we will be working to actually put more tutorials in this section soon. Those that do advanced C based languages or Visual Basic will understand these tutorials quicker from the looks of things. It is going to be harder anyway, so I have decided that these tutorials will might as well be full OOP and not a half-way cop-out. Good luck, the rewards are good!
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| Setting up a project for later | Must Read Basics | Function/Method Declaration. | Drawing a circle | enterFrame Event |
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| More and altering events | Using an image from the library | Understanding Depth | String Functions | Drawing by Mouse |
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| Simple HitTest | Move to Mouse | Setting Depth | Pong (1) - Handling the Keyboard | Pong (2) - Fast paced action |
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| Pong (3) - Creating our rally | A Friendly guide to the Timer class | Packages | Pong (4) - Scoring our game | More Useful String Functions |
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| Avoider (1) - Setting up | Avoider (2) - The Player | Avoider (3) - Targets, scoring | Avoider (4) - Finishing up: Enemies | Debugging |
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| Compiler Errors | Runtime Errors | Dragging & Dropping | Basic Sound In AS3 | Custom Cursors |
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| Rotation in AS3 | Digital Clock | Command Line | URL-Loading Button | Analogue Clock |
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| Classes (and farms!) | Point-and-Click Game | Gravity and bounce |
ActionScript 2 Tutorials
These are the medium tutorials. They will help you expand your knowledge of Flash.. Hopefully, if you follow them, you will be able to create basic but useful files, for webpages and games alike. It is advised you follow them in order, but if you already have some experience, feel free to jump in at any point
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| The STOP Action | URL Direction Button | Arrow-Key Movement | Number Matching Game | Duplication |
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| Custom Cursors | How to refer to symbols in ActionScript | Simple Hittest | Functions | Removing Movie Clips |
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| Arcade Game | Arcade Game Bullets | Swish timings | Drawing by mouse | Rotation in Flash |
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| Gravity and Bounce | Sound Manipulation | Hiding the right-click menu | Turret game (1) - The turret | Turret game (2) - A slight detour |
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| XML in Flash |
ActionScript Concepts
These are all about ActionScript. They will help you expand you knowledge of ActionScripting and coding the most successful and generally best games and interfaces. You can read them at any point, or follow to them off other pages as reference material. These apply similarly to both AS2 and AS3.
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| Traces and Comments | Variables: Info Stores | For Loops | Arrays | If, Else and Else If |
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| While loops | Array Functions | Try, Catch and Finally | Constructor function |
Photoshop Tutorials
These are our first batch of PhotoShop tutorials, although I am sure we will add more as time progresses. Photoshop is particularly useful to Flash programmers or just general computer artists.
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| Blending Options | More Blending Options | Make a Cube | "Cut-out" Effect | Using the Curves Panel |
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| Dynamic Brushes | Making a Globe | The Actions Panel | Making bars | The Mask Tool |
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| Chessboard | The File Menu | The Hue/Sat Dialogue |
