Flash technology has more advantages over the other means of website creation. It allows you to make an striking and breathtaking websites that combine theme-based graphics, action effects, multiple media types – audio, video, text, still images. It provides excellent opportunities to make your presentation or video game more dynamic, interactive and appealing.
Flash technology gives free rein to flash developers that they can not find anywhere. Flash allows them to place objects where they want without thinking about browser restrictions, problems with templates, tables, screen resolution and others. Flash pages will be showed properly in all web browsers without any differences.
But what is the first thing we face with while entering a Flash website? Of course, it’s a Flash preloader that indicates the loading status of your website and makes a first impression about it. So, Flash designers should not only reckon out the whole website structure and design, but the preloading moment as well, because it’s a Flash prealoder that all visitors turn their eyes to.
Flashexplained.com In this detailed tutorial made for Flash 8, you will see how simple it is to make a preloading system that is increasingly showing an image as your site loads. It will show you the following: how to import an image into Flash, how to make a rectangular show clip and turn it into a mask, how to write ActionScript that will power the preloader and more.
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By the end of this tutorial, you will learn how to make a preloader – a progress bar indicating how much of your content is being biased. After the preloader has finished loading, the image will become visible. The tutorial consists of two parts. One part will focus on how to make the preloader animation and code, and the second part will discuss integrating your preloader with an existing application such as one that loads an image from an external location.
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Flashexplained.com
| This simple, detailed Flash 8 pro example will show you how to make a sleek green sphere preloader for your website. In this example, you will learn: how to make a sphere with a realistic depth effect, how to use the splendid filters in Flash 8 pro to achieve a realistic sphere, how to use transparency combined with radial gradient fills in Flash, how to make a beveled ring around your preloader, how to make a dynamic text field with pixel fonts and extra effects added to it, how to load an external SWF and more.
Here is an example of how your preloader will look like at the end of this example. This is a simulation of course, no real preloading is happening in the example. |
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FlashFridge.com
Using this thoroughly clarified, detailed, action script flash example, you will see how to make very trendy stars preloader. You will also learn how to draw stars using the Line Tool, how to convert preloader into a Show Clip Symbol, how to make Motion Tween and much, much more!
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Take a look at this example and learn how to make striking preloader using the picture and action script. You will also learn how to convert an image into a Show Clip Symbol, how to apply on it alpha effect, how to convert any layer into a mask, how to make percent for preloader and more. Here is how your Flash preloader will look like. |
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FlashFridge.com
In this tutorial, you will see how to make a black and white preloader with percent. To make this tutorial, you have to use a small Action Script code. You will also learn how to design a preloader, how to animate it and more. This example is perfect for newbies because it doesn’t require profound knowledge. Just follow the steps and at the end you will get something like this.