In Class Thur Mar 20th

Lets look at what we need to make a Flash website again!
- SWFs on different levels that bring up and take away content as it is needed.
- Interaction can happen through keystrokes or buttons activated by the mouse.
- you will need the loadmovienum, unloadmovienum, geturl, on & stop actionscript commands
- all SWF's need to be the same size and frame rate (fps)
- 'Levels' stack from level 0 on the bottom to level 999 on the top. Level 0 controls the size and fps of the SWF's on all the other levels


More Advanced ActionScript
- variables var = ?
- lets randomize things random(#);
- test for action if (comparison) { statement }


ex. a = random(9)+1;

ex. x = random(50) - random(y);

ex. z = random(x)-y+10;

In Class Tue Mar 4th

Flash Animation
Makin' a Symbol
- New symbol
--- Graphic, Button & Movie Clip
- convert to a symbol
--- nested symbols



the second two
Motion Tween
Motion Path

In Class Thur Feb 28th

Your Flash Drawing Assignment is Due
- How to export it as a 150 dpi jpeg
- Hand in your images to joe

Animation / Game example

Flash Animation
4 styles
- Frame by Frame
- Shape Tween
- Motion Tween
- Motion Path

Lets try the first two
Frame by Frame
* lest check out the frame rate (FPS)
- working the Timeline
--- adding and deleting Frames & Key Frames
--- moving Frames
Shape Tween



In Class Assignment #2
create a 15 second @ 15 fps animation using both frame by frame & shape tween animation.
create a 15 second @ 15 fps animation using motion tween and motion paths animations.
* the size of the animation must be 720 x 534 pixels
Due March 13th

In Class Thur Feb 21st

Today in Flash:

- Rulers, Grids, Guides and Snaping

- Cut /Copy/Paste/ Paste in Place in flash

- Text in Flash

- Group/unGroup/Break Apart Shapes
--- try breaking apart Text

- Arrange the Groups
--- forward and backward

- Working on an Grouped shape
--- pay attetion to where you are

- Alpha is Opacity
--- check out the color mixer

- Transform anything (an I mean anything)

- Saving as FLA
- Exporting as an Image
- Exporting as an SWF

In Class Tue Feb 19th

USB THUMBDRIVE TEST TODAY!

check out Speakerson.net

Flash
What is a Vector?

- Layout
--- Windows

--- Stage

--- Timeline
----- layers
------- locking layers
------- layer visibility
------- layer outlines
----- folders

- Properties
--- size
--- frame rate
--- background color

- Tools

* lets draw


Flash Frame Rate & Size basics
-frames per second (FPS)
- Low bandwidth website 12 FPS or less
- Mid bandwidth website 14 - 20 FPS
- Fast bandwith website 20 FPS or more
- Movie Film 24 FPS
- Digital Video 30 FPS (about)
- Traditional Film Animation 12 FPS (double click)

-pixel dimensions
- Small Website = 640x480 or smaller
- Ave size Website = 920x680 smaller
- Large Website = 1024x768 or larger
-TV = 320x240
-DVD = 720 x 480 (720 x 534 )
-HDTV1080i = 1920 x 1080
-HDTV720i = 1280 x 720
-Youtube = 320 x 240
-PSP = 480 x 272
-iPod = 320 x 240

In Class Mon Oct 22nd

Work on your Flash Site.

Ask Questions.

In Class Wed Oct 17th

Dynamic and Input text in flash
- text from a .txt file
- variables from a .txt file

Get help

Work on the site

In Class Wed Oct 10th

Flash Text Advanced

Text Input
--- different types of text fields: Dynamic, Static & Input
--- check the options
--- instance name
--- variable name

Text Output
--- put in the Actions
------ Dynamic text box instance name = " " around your text, + + around variables

ie... finaltextA.htmlText = "Hello " + nameA + " how are you today?";

also,

Trace command - trace("bonusA" + bonusA);

check out MadLibs example

In Class Mon Oct 8th

Work on your Flash Website

come in and ask questions!

Important Actionscript

loadMovieNum("the url of the SWF", level);

unloadMovieNum(level);

example on a button:
on(release) { loadMovieNum("nav.swf", 30);
unloadMovieNum(40);
}


this would load up the "nav" SWF on level 30 and would unload whatever SWF is on level 40

In Class Mon Oct 1st

Flash
- reverse engineering a FLA

try to make a simple site work

In Class Wed Sept 26th

Advanced Flash website

talking 'bout LEVELS n' SWFs
--- Physical example of LEVELS


where you put it, is where it shows up!
need help lining things up, try a screen shot (shift+apple+4)

look'n at Folder and File Structure for Adv. Flash website
check'n out the FLAs
look at example SWF's

In Class Mon Sept 24th

Flash
--- Adding Images
----- Photoshop save for web : the PNG
----- Trace bitmap

--- Adding Video

--- Adding Sound


Moving around the Timeline using action script:
stop();

on (release) {gotoAndPlay(frame#);
}

In Class Wed Sept 19th

Creating Symbols
-- Movie Clip
-- Button
- Nested symbol
- Nested Animated symbol
--- as Movie Clip
--- as Button
(try to start thinking about Flash in pieces)

Quick Project: Create a complex Button and a complex nested Movie Clip
(the button should contain animations on 2 frames, the movie clip must have at least 3 animations nested inside it)

Styles of Animation
Animation #1 Shape Tween
Animation #2 Motion Tween
Animation #3 Frame by Frame
Animation #4 Motion Path
Animation #5 Programed Animation

In Class Mon Sept 17th

Flash Day 2

The Type break apart Trick
--- Group / Ungroup
--- Break Apart

Windows
-- Transform
-- Color Mixer

Timeline
-- Layers
----Lock, View, Oultines

Animation #1 Shape Tween
Animation #2 Motion Tween
Animation #3 Frame by Frame
Animation #4 Motion Path

In Class Wed Sept 12th

Check out Project 1

how does that ziki work? and what does it do?

Lets look at Flash
Layout
Tools
Prefs