Tutorials » Actionscripting : Page 2

You'll learn how to drag and drop objects in AS3. You'll learn how to calculate the distance between two objects and use the TweenLite Class to slide one of them. By Nuno Mira

Well, it was always tricky for everybody making things looking natural, especially animations based on nature themes, they are hard to achieve, so it was a kind of a challenge for me working on this grass. Here I've learned a bit more about drawing in a canvas (bitmap area) and the eternal fighting against performance. Drawing on flash using .graphics is powerful but it is a bit slow and could affect badly your flash application specially when using gradients, filters and complex shapes with curves simultaneously. By Alex Nino

In this tutorial we are going to use Fader API to create slideshow from DisplayObjects present in stage. Not the dynamic one as we created in previous version. By Saravanan

The process to create impressive widgets with Flex and to integrate them into Flash is too much complicated. For these reasons, one of the aims of SPAS 3.0 is to really simplify the coding process, without restricting its possibilities. By Pascal ECHEMANN

This tutorial explains how to move a sprite with the keyboard. By Joe Stein

I will show how SharedObject might be used. For illustration, I came up with an idea to show users the time they spend browsing a particular page. By Paul Flashdaweb

Make something follow another object. By Yotam

Learn how to create a circular preloader that grows and becomes more opaque depending on how many Bytes have been loaded By Jake

I always wanted to animate a button from ActionScript and keep my timeline clear but it was kind of hard, until I stumbled upon this Tweening Engine from Extend. This tutorial makes use of the Tweening Engine to animate a button. It is indeed a great tool, and I say that because with it took me quite little time to make an animation. By PopCode

While it is fairly straightforward to use Flash's drawing API to draw a line from 1 MovieClip to another, it's a little less trivial to draw a full line from from 1 end of the stage to another AND through two given MovieClips. This tutorial will guide you throug the steps of drawing just such a line! By Vernon Morris

This tutorial explains the basics of using hitTest to add extra functionality to your Flash movie or game. By Matthew Slater

Has some code and tips for a simple 2D game AI for moving a sprite towards another and for attacking (or just doing an action) when an object is close enough. By Luke Knepper