The Flasher Tutorial!

HI! Welcome To The Flasher Tutorial. Made so you can be a PIVOT COLLAB flasher!!

Steps:
Step 1: The Menu!
Step 2: The Animation!
Step 3: The Credits!
Step 4: The Play And Stop Button!
Step 5: The Result!

Step 1: The Menu!

First of all it could be a intro, cause thats good flashers do. You choose!

Then Make some static text, with a "play" text. Press F8 or right click on the text and press "Convert to Symbol". Make a name, and let the type be "button" Press F9

or Select "actions". Copy And Paste This text, but change "INSERT FRAME NUMBER" To the frame number the animation will start at.

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on(release){
gotoAndPlay(INSERT FRAME NUMBER)
}

Press F9.

Click On The Frame You added the button, and press F9 or Select "actions". Insert this text:

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stop();

Now press F9, and then press F7

Step 2: The Animation!

Now first make a drawing. Anything could it be. Then mark it, and and press F8 or right click and select "Convert to Symbol". Give It A name, and let the type be

"graphic".
double click on it. On the first frame IN the graphic, delete the drawing.

Press ctrl+r or click on file, then import, then import to stage. Now Find your GIF files, and import them all. Then go out of the graphic by simply double click a place with no animation.


Set frame rate to 15 fps, cause thats the common pivot 2.2.5 rate.

Add A Layer by simply :


Now click on the frame where the animation starts ON THE NEW LAYER. Write The Name Of The animator. go To The Frame Where the next animation starts ON THE

NEW LAYER, and Press F6. Then Delete The Old Name And Add The Name Of The new animator.
Now Go To The Last Frame, And Press F6, And Then F7.

Step 3: The Credits!

Make a new static text where you write all the credits. then move it down and out of the animate area (The White)
Right Click On The Frame Where You Added The Credits And

Select The Frame Where The Credits Will Stop, and press F6. Then move the credits OVER the white Animating Area.
Select That Frame, press F9, And Copy And Paste This Text, But Change "INSERT FRAME NUMBER" To the frame number the Menu Was:

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gotoAndStop(INSERT FRAME NUMBER);

Step 4: The Play And Stop Button!

Add A Layer By Simply That Layer MUST Be OVER The Others. Click On the frame Where The Animation Starts ON THE NEW LAYER.
Drag The Play Button Into the Animtion Screen, But Not ON it. Over and under. Make A New Static Text With This A Stop Text. Press F8 or right click on the text and
Select "Convert to Symbol" Let The type be "Button". Add A Name, And Press Ok. Select The Stop Button, And Press F9 or Press "Actions". Copy And Paste This

Text:

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on(release){
stop();
}

Click On the play button ad copy and paste this text:

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on(release){
play()
}

Step 5: The Result!
If You Followed This tut, This Should be your result:

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1206360892

Swfup:

http://www.swfup.com/file/165429

And Finally... THE FLASH FILE!!!

http://uploaded.pivothost.org/fyrren/ZIPPY!jmo4.zip

HOPE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING!!!!!

-Fyrren

Nice, I'll be sure use this when I buy flash, good job, Fyrren.

wuts a flash?


nice tut, i'll be using this for my learning time..

Fyrren in Forum Updates wrote:Whoa! My tut sucked!

So it didn't suck? Thanks for the comments! Oh- i just noticed that SWFUP is down. Ill use animatorhost and host the file later...

It was good fyrren nic work.
but I think more in depth explaining was needed for some of the noobier flash users
like me

could you possibly make it any more easier? because i tried it and it didnt work out very good.

Neru wrote:could you possibly make it any more easier? because i tried it and it didnt work out very good.

When i use these steps it works fine. What flash version do u use?

i use flash 8.

Well, then it should work >_>

I dont know man i can do some of this but it took some working out to do on my own part
there were some places where it was confusing and hard to understand.

First of all it could be a intro, cause thats good flashers do. You choose!

what does that mean?????

i could quote some more stuff but i wont.
It was kind of like saying " 2+2=4 now you know addition"
Really though this is a tutorial to teach people.
(This message wasnt meant to be interpreted as anger or flaming)

Nice collab

mak36 ita stick wrote:Nice collab

Don't bump week old threads.

Well, now that this is unlocked, I have a question.
i got my permanent play and stop buttons to work fine, but the one at the beginning doesn't. I tried your code, then the code for the regular play button, and then tried to tweak it as Flash told me so with the error messages. I use Flash MX 2004 (the only trial that worked >.>). here's my current code for it:

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on(release){
gotoAndPlay(2)
}

And I don't get errors with this code, It doesn't work when I press it. Yes, it is a button.

Also, I would clean up the wording in this some. Its difficult to read with the current grammar and formatting (line breaks in random places, images in the middle of text, etc.) You don't need to show us how to add a new layer each time, just the first time is fine. It also needs better explanation in parts:

First of all it could be a intro, cause thats good flashers do. You choose!

And how do you add an Intro? I'm guessing it all goes before the Play frame, but you need to address those things for the stupid people. It would make your tut better, you had an awesome idea but pulled off a little badly :(
If you cleaned it up I think it would be Master List quality, if they take more then Pivot Tutorials.
if you answer my question, thanks, and I'm not insulting your tutorial, I love it, just trying to help you make it better.

RBP:
Maybe try:

on(release){
_root.gotoAndPlay(2)
}

It seems like you're making the button go to the 2nd frame, which won't do anything as that's a mouse hovering over frame. Adding _root tells it to make the main stage, no movieclips, go to and keep playing on the 2nd frame.

Thanks, trying now.
EDIT: Nope, still not working. This is weird. The reg. Play button is fine, but the other one...