Hey im tryin to make a web site with dreamweaver and some flash integraton, but there is a problem i have not used flash very much. Anyway i was wondering if anyone could help me with my site.
I want to know how to make a flash effect that has square particles appearing around an object, text in my case, aligned in a grid. It is something similar to the flash effect on this site, the background grids; http://www.templatemonster.com/show.php?templ=2099&cat_type=cat&type=1&arg1=53&arg2=&order=date
Please help.
Is there a place where i can learn layers and what action script to use?
P.S. If anyone else has any neat ideas for my site feel free to shout em out. Its a Computer business called Lucent.
Check my attachment. I set up a real quick example.
But keep in mind: My tweening and animation skills in Flash are incredibly limited, I don’t know if my method is the best method or not honestly, but it works.
I have…
Main timeline which is the grid and a movie clip on the layer above.
Inside that movie clip I have 3 layers.
Each of those 3 layers contains the movie clip of the fading square.
I placed them on the timline at different points in each layer.
one more question. How did u go about; in what order, putting the layers together. like scene1>block>blocks>block1>block2>block3>randomly placed blocks? What was the order?
Then I converted that into a movie clip symbol. (named block)
I then converted that into ANOTHER movie clip symbol. (named fadeBlock I believe)
I then double clicked on the fadeBlock clip to open it for editing. I right clicked on Frame 10 and chose “Insert Keyframe”. I did the same thing for Frame 20. I then right clicked inside the grey area between keyframes 1-10 and 10-20 and chose “Insert Tween”. Then I went back and clicked on frame one, clicked on the square movie clip in frame 1 and opened the properties panel (CTRL+F3) and in the drop down box I set it to Alpha and change the value to 0%. I repeated the process on the clip in Frame 20 as well.
After that you can BACK to the main timeline and click on the fadeBlock clip. Now here we go again, I converted THIS clip into a movie clip symbol again. I believe I named it “randomlyPlacedBlocks” or something.
Lastly I double clicked on the randomlyPlacedBlocks clip and then set up the layers in there. I just dragged an instance of the fadeBlock clip out of the library and onto the stage on the new layer, and positioned it where I wanted it to go, on the keyframe I wanted it to go on.