Flash Tutorials by FlashEssential

In this tutorial i'll be showing you how to achieve a smoke effect using flash, no actionscript needed for this effect as we'll be doing it all on our timeline.

Often when using font in Flash it looks blurry and unprofessional. The reason for this is because the font has to be embedded so that it displays correctly. This just takes a few simple steps.

In this tutorial I will show you how to use CSS as a sort of text-editor for your flash content.

In Part 2 of our Classes tutorial series we are going to take everything we wrote in Part 1 of our Class tutorial and add to it. We'll create a reusable class that will scale objects when you rollover it with your mouse.

In this series of tutorials I'll be going through some of the basics of actionscript classes and how they work. So lets get started.

Actionscript 3.0 is a powerful object-oriented programming language. The language is used alongside the Flash player and is ideal for creating Internet applications, in essense AS3 is responsible for some of the most impressive websites on the web to date.

Often when you're writing code their will be times when you need to make decisions in your code. You might want a certain piece of code to execute under a certain circumstance and another piece of code to execute under different circumstances. ActionScript 3.0 uses conditionals to deal...

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to organize all your classes into one folder.

In ActionScript 3 we are now able to dynamically change the frame rate directly from our actions panel. This gives us the option to change the frame rate at the click of a mouse button or after a certain amount of time.

5000: the class "TestFile" must be subclass "flash.display.MovieClip" since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.