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Moving and rotating a movie clip with button symbols, via ActionScript

October 14th, 2008 63 Comments

In this lesson, you will learn how to manipulate a movie clip via button symbols. You will create an interface and write ActionScript that will enable the rotation and movement of a movie clip across the screen. Press and hold the buttons on the example below to see the little rocket spaceship move and rotate!

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How to make a shiny rollover effect for a movie clip that will function as a button

October 14th, 2008 20 Comments

In this easy tutorial made for Flash MX, Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8, you will learn to create a shiny animated effect which will appear once a user rolls his mouse over a button. Many visitors to my site have asked me to explain how to make this kind of effect once they have […]

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Creating Movie Clips

October 8th, 2008 10 Comments

This tutorial explains how to create a Movie Clip, what is the Library in Flash, what is an instance, how to modify a Movie Clip.

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