I am developing a 2D game using Adobe Flash Pro CS 6 and ActionScript3. I am having some trouble in developing some effects e. g. bomb blast, particle effects etc. I want to know, whether I can use After Effects for those and then use them the game. Please suggest me.
There's no problem of using any graphics data from any program in Flash as long as flash can support the file format.
In case of After Effects graphics, you'll probably have to export them as a PNG file sequence, so they'll most probably be pretty large in file size.
To import:
You can either make a movie clip and just import the first image of a sequence with CRTL/CMD + R and Flash with be "smart" enough to suggest to load the other files of that sequence.
If you want, you can load them during run-time, add them to the array/vector, create a Bitmap object and change it's bitmapData property on enter frame/timer to animate it.
If you are decided on using the actual After Effects graphics rather than emulating them using an Actionscript 3 particle effect, I'd actually recommend exporting them as video on an alpha channel and then converting that to flv and then hosting them individually and streaming them in via Netstream and placing them on the proper layer via an addchild. If bandwidth isn't a huge concern here, this would be a good method for achieving this effect.
Here is some documentation on Netstream. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7d4e.html
If this seems like it might achieve the desired result, I can explain further if needed.
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I just started working with Adobe Flash CS6, and have been trying to find a way to make a game that can record parts of itself. So far I have been able to capture the desired areas of the screen as bitmapData and encode that as PNG and JPEG to byte arrays, and have made an array that I use to store them in order of occurrence. I can use file reference to save them to my computer one at a time, but I need a way to group them together as a video file of any sort. Even as a GIF would do, it may not be video but at least it moves.
Basically I have a bunch of frames collected by my game, how do I get them to someone's desktop as a video file?
If this is impossible for Flash CS6, can it be done with Flash Builder or do I need Adobe Air? I have found multiple methods that work for Air, but I don't have it myself.
You are pretty much answering your own question: you have to encode the data in the right way. Intead of encoding as PNG or JPEG, encode into the video codes that you want.
I have several games that were built 800*600 and need to convert them to run on the iPhone.
Are there any "easy" frameworks to convert the application without having to create all new images for Flash/AS3?
I was reading about starling but I don't see any way to easily convert our application witout rewriting a lot of it.
Thanks.
It totally depends on your existing games. If they use a lot of vector graphics and full screen animation, performance will become an issue. But if you use a lot of bitmaps already, and not much animation, you might get away with just porting your games to AIR.
Flash CC has options to export assets to Bitmaps even if they were created using vectors ("Export as Bitmap").
You can optimize performance by using cacheAsBitmap on certain graphics (also look at cacheAsBitmapMatrix) but there you will enter rewrite territory.
I'm brand new to Flash Professional and wanted to make a short 10 second clip. Instead of looking into using tweens and symbols (I wish I did) I used Flash Professional as a flip book, illustrating sketches for each keyframe.
I'm now in the colouring process and want to know if there is a way to colour an object (I've drawn with the brush tool) throughout multiple frames. is this even possible?
I understand there are some short cuts to repetitive tasks using ActionScript. But, once again I am brand new to Flash Professional and haven't tried anything in the ActionScript. I do however have a very basic knowledge of HTML coding and some javaScript if it helps at all…
If there is an alternate solution like exporting the file to another Adobe program that has a "colouring multiple frames" feature, that would be great too.
Sorry to say, to do that, you WILL have to work with symbols. However, this is an easy fix.
Select the object you want to color, click Modify--> Convert to Symbol. Give it a good name, and set it to MovieClip. Click OK.
Now, in the Library panel, double-click the icon next to your symbol name. Color as you wish.
There are multiple ways to put this on your timeline. You could replace each instance of that drawing with the symbol. Or, better, you could create a new layer with only one keyframe (and regular frames after that to the end of your animation. Place your object on that layer, and then remove all the old versions of that drawing.
NOTE: You will need to be mindful of where in the stack you put layers, as that sets the z-index of everything on that layer.
i haven't worked with graphics until now.. so I have not much ideas about using graphics objects in flash cs6.
I want to move this character depending if the person has pressed a button and stop his movement once the button is released. I looked up on how to go about this process.. so far one thing that kept coming up was to turn my spritesheet into graphics.. but after that i couldn't really find anything on how to integrate this into actionscript. Plus when I convert an object into graphics it doesn't give me options to assign it a class name. so can somebody give me a good breakdown on what is the purpose of these graphics objects? and how should I go about making a sprite move?
Disregard information concerning sprite sheets. These are used as a completely different method of graphics rendering that I'm not going to cover here; for more advanced, high performance applications and games.
When you say Graphics, I am assuming that you mean you've created some drawings that you've converted to a Graphic like this:
These types of objects are used purely for timeline animation. What you want to use here is the type MovieClip. When you use this type, you'll be able to give the object a class name like you mentioned:
After doing this, you'll be able to refer to that library symbol in ActionScript like this:
var gr:MyGraphic = new MyGraphic();
addChild(gr);
I have seen tutorials on creating a 3d character in flash. Is there a way to manipulate (animate and move) this 3d character with actionscript 3? If so, could you guide me with some links?
Thanks
You will need to do a bit of reading up on a 3rd party library to help you to achieve this. One such library is Away 3D which can be used to manipulate 3d characters in Flash.
The process goes like:
Build a model in a 3D package
Load it in to away3d
I am not certain but I think animations are supported in a Collada file but its moving so fast that maybe other formats are supported. I know they were working on their own format.
Anyway if you head over there and maybe post on their forums or look at some of the examples, you should get the idea.