Apr 27

30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials

Using Flash properly, allows you to create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors amazing user interaction. Flash’s strength lies in its ability to showcase unusual visual solutions, including graphic motion, videos and sound. Make use of them if you really want to achieve a stunning visual design

This article provides 30 Impressive Flash and Actionscript 3.0 tutorials which can enrich your design skills and may serve as an inspiration for your Flash-projects.

- Create an Impressive Magnifying Effect with ActionScript 3.0

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a magnifying glass effect, demonstrating use of the displacementMapFilter. The effect can be achieved in a relatively short space of time and with very little code.

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- Creating Gradients in Flash

Creating gradients is an important skill to have when designing in Flash.

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- Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript 3

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to control buttons using ActionScript 3 while creating a guide for selecting perennials.

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- 3D Menu on a Cube with Perspective

In this tutorial, they provide several custom classes which make building 3D menus like the cube menu below easy.

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- Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

In this screencast we will learn how to create a dynamic slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and how to grab the images from an xml file.

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- Create a 3D Sliding Puzzle Game in Flex with ActionScript 3.0 and Away3D

In this tutorial you are going to build up a simple sliding puzzle. Puzzle images are dynamically loaded and sliced so you can easily use your own images if you like.

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- Expanding the Flash AS3 Videoplayer

In this tutorial you will learn how to add the following features: Playlist support, Fullscreen support, Save volume, Clickable progress/volume bar.

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- Infinite Gallery / Menu

In this Flash and ActionScript 3 tutorial you will learn how to create an infinite gallery. This will also work perfectly for menus and so on.

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- Create an iPhone-like Flip Effect in Flash Using ActionScript 3.0

In this tutorial, we’ll recreate the Flip Effect used in the iPhone’s UI using Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0.

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- Using the Timer Class to animate rotation

The timer class is quite a powerful class in Actionscript, in this article you will see a very simple implementation of a Timer. We will create a simple shape, and we’ll use the Timer class to make it rotate.

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- Flash Mouse Trailer with Stars

This Flash and ActionScript 3 tutorial shows you how to create a cool mouse trail effect with stars.

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- Customizing Flash Context Menu Using AS3

This tutorial will teach you how to customize the context menu by removing the default items and adding your own items instead.

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- Create a poll and chart component in Flash CS3

Collect your website visitors’ views and opinions via a Flash poll, and display the results on a Flash bar chart

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- Trendy Custom Cursor Using the Action Script 3

This lesson, explained in extreme detail, will teach you how to create trendy custom cursor using a little action script code. You can use this lesson, when you like to hide a standard cursor and use a custom cursor.

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- Implement the basic Flash CS3 drag-and-drop technique

Add that little bit of extra dynamism to your website by introducing drag-and-drop to the user experience.

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- Modern Preloader with ActionScript 3

How to create a modern preloader with ActionScript 3. It is really easy to change the look of the preloader to fit for your needs.

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- AS3 Guide Colour Tints

How to create a modern preloader with ActionScript 3. It is really easy to change the look of the preloader to fit for your needs.

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- Rotation Movie text presentation

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson, you will see how to create very attractive movie text effect.

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- Vertical 3D Carousel with ActionScript 3

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a vertical 3D carousel with the help of ActionScript 3. We will determine the rotation speed according to mouse movement.

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- Cool particle effects in Flash

Creating a particle system in Flash may sound difficult, but as Seb Lee-Delisle shows you, it’s not rocket science

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- Flash CS3 Particle Effect Tutorial

Another tutorial to show you how create an effect with random particles flying out from the center of the stage in random directions, with random sizes and opacities.

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- Basics of Papervision3D

This tutorial goes over the basics how to use the Papervision3D library.

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- Design a Flash-based videogame

Luke Feldman reveals how to create an exciting Flash-based computer game that will bring your audience back time and time again.

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- Mp3 player with volume slider using Actionscript 3

Learn how to create a mp3 player with a volume slider.

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- Creating a 3D Tunnel Effect in Flash

This tutorial will teach you how to create this very cool 3D tunnel effect in Flash using some simple 2D animation techniques.

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- AS3 Guide Drawing Curves

Drawing curves in ActionScript 3.0 is simple using the curveTo().

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- Circle Collisions

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- Building flash video player

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- ColorPicker Component in Flash CS3

In this simple Flash movie, the user can draw with the mouse on a board. The user can choose the color and the thickness of the stroke. For choosing color, we use the new ActionScript 3 component, ColorPicker.

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- Making lip-syncing simple

Learn how to speak easy by going through the simple steps of lip-syncing using Flash CS3 with animator.

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  1. James 27 April 2009

    Oh man, this is an amazing collection of tutorials!! Nice! Thanks for this…

  2. Carlos Pinho 27 April 2009

    Hi,

    Thank you very much for feature our content on your awesome flash web roundup.
    It’s great to know that people like our articles, and want to learn more and better.

    Stay tuned, as we are publishing more tuts on regular basis.

    • Noupe 27 April 2009

      Thanks for posting such great content, happy to have your tuts on this post :)

  3. Very cool, I really like the magnifying glass effect.

  4. Sklep Zoologiczny 27 April 2009

    Awesome article.

  5. free psd templates 27 April 2009

    thanks
    by chance i am also working on flash game development tutorials…soon i will post them in news here

  6. b00m 27 April 2009

    Wow!
    Cool hand-picked Flash tuts…
    Tnx for this.

  7. Jamie Allsop 28 April 2009

    This is a nice collection of tutorials you have here. I have been looking for new ideas for preloaders and this Modern Preloader with ActionScript 3 looks good so I am going to give it ago. Thanks for sharing this collection of tutorials.

  8. Patternhead 28 April 2009

    Some excellent tuts here, thanks for sharing

  9. Richard S Davies 28 April 2009

    Brilliant! Thanks

  10. Rajnish Gupta 28 April 2009

    Hey.. Thanks a lot. This could help me lot in future to create stunning website in flash. Keep me updated..

  11. Boxless Thought 28 April 2009

    thanks been needing a lot of these for my flash web site

  12. Fabryz 28 April 2009

    Nice collection, thanks for the post.

    Check the list, you’ve added the “Flash CS3 Particle Effect Tutorial” two times ;)

  13. Rick 28 April 2009

    The best examples! Thanks!

  14. Gene 29 April 2009

    Great list. I’m getting back into flash design. I will definitely bookmark this and use it to improve my skills. :)

  15. Mike 30 April 2009

    Super Terrific Happy post!

  16. brittany 30 April 2009

    this is soooo stupid!

  17. Franky 3 May 2009

    Hmmmmm. Some of these are alrighty!
    Others, not so alrighty!

  18. Some Points 9 May 2009

    I was looking Circle collision tutorial, thank you very much for compiling such a wonderful tutorial list…its really saved my time

  19. Module23 25 May 2009

    Great sliding puzzle! Thanks for sharing!

  20. ilike2flash 2 June 2009

    Great list, thanks.

  21. Shaishav 8 June 2009

    Gr8 Tutorials Thnks…

  22. Saket 19 June 2009

    Great Post!!!
    can you post an article about how to make rotating 3d globe in flash cs4?

  23. sharin_sg 19 October 2009

    This is awesome! Thanks

  24. Porter 21 October 2009

    That’s a nice list of tutorials. I particularly like the particle effect ones, those are awesome.

  25. weirdnerd 21 October 2009

    This is a huge help. Thanks!

  26. arunpheo 5 November 2009

    Tnks man for ur great collection

  27. DB-Elements 28 November 2009

    Amazing and very helpful references. Thanks for posting!

  28. stickers muraux 10 December 2009

    Thanks, i’ve found many good ideas in those tuts. Stumble!

  29. Samay 19 December 2009

    This is amazing. How do you benefit by offering all this cool stuff for free?? If my question is going to change your mindset, what you could do is charge a nominal fees but please dont become a complete capitalist.

    Thanks a ton.

  30. Sherif 10 January 2010

    most of the links don’t work… :( :( :(

  31. Richard 3 February 2010

    The thicker lines dividing each tutorial makes it look like the heading belongs to the tutorial image above… slightly confusing when scrolling through.

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