Tutorial Topic Suggestions?

[kirupa]

Hello everyone,
Does anyone have any suggestions for tutorials that should be posted on the site? I don't want to write about topics that everyone already knows hehe. If you have a tutorial request, don't hesitate to post it. All the future tutorials I write will be based largely upon your input!

Thanks,
Kirupa

[ilyaslamasse]

Usability !! Making a good menu, laying out the site, loading stuff since Jubba doesn't seem to want to write that one... That kind of thing would be great.

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[I am not Jubba]

Pom, i was looking thru the tuts, and theres a load movie tut on the site already. i dont' know if thats what you were expecting from me? if not then I'll write another one. but take a look at it.

[kamello]

OK this is what I need....ready... I have an image that goes in the center of the menu, the menu goes around the pic in a circle, when I roll over the subject that I want to click, I want the menu to turn until that words is straight and the pic to change to whatever the subject is...

the menu is a circle that turns when you roll over the subject and at the same time the picture inside the circle changes.

Got it ??

[Phil Jayhan]

Ya know what would be a cool 'ongoing' tute Kirupa? And it would greatly help me in my rut and Im sure a great many others;

Show us how to build a site with Flash 5, MX, little by little, using dreamweaver as the base HTML page so we not only know how to use Flash but also know how to incorporate all of this into a Dreamweaver format; That would be really cool and in the end make all of us a lot better web builders, don't you agree?

pj

[kirupa]

I hear ya Phil!
I am going to create something such as that; hence the reason I have a Usability section on my site. It will cover how to create a full Flash site from the beginning.

When school is out for summer break, I am going to embark on a 10-15+ page tutorial on creating a fully functional Flash site with a 'demo' Flash site that I will create. I can't wait! :)

Cheers,
Kirupa

[kamello]

what about my menu ??? can you respond to my suggestion ?

[Phil Jayhan]

Totally cool. I can hardly wait kirupa. Kamello, I know someone with a site similar to your idea. Let me see if I can find it.

pj

[ilyaslamasse]

Oups Jubba, you're right. Anyway, that's a tute about loading into level. There are 2000 other things to explore : loading into target, loading variables... I can do one part if you don't feel like doing everything.

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[RenaissanceGirl]

XML!

[Phil Jayhan]

Hey Rennigirl-
Your a girl of few letters...Doh

pj

[kamello]

I'm still waiting....can any help me with my idea of a menu that I posted above

[ilyaslamasse]

About the central picture : make it a movie clip with the instance name picture and as many keyframes as menu topics. You can give labels to those frames to make it easier.

The buttons : put them inside movie clips, and give the buttons the code
on (rollOver) {_root.picture.gotoAndStop("label");}Also give the rotation code to all your buttons movie clip. Do you know how to do that ?

pom

[kamello]

not really, with flash,...but Can I use swish ?

how much would you charge for something like that ?

[kamello]

u.dailynews.com/ (http://u.dailynews.com/) on the top left of this link there is something like what I want, but the buttons have to rotate and the pic. change

[I am not Jubba]

you have to use flash for something like that. Swish doesn't have the actionscript for something like that. Also, this really isn't the thread to post your questions about this. Try the Flash ActionScript forum. there are many ways to do this. Make the buttons into one movieclip that will rotate around the central movie clip when it is pressed. that is done using tellTarget and maybe some variables. You need a basic grasp of actionscripting and instances to do something like this.

[time2design]

I'd love to see a site walkthrough for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

I can do tuts 'till I'm blue in the face, it's just putting it all together that makes me lose my hair.

Maybe some stuff on PHP and secure sites also...more dynamic interaction and interaction with html files.


t2d

[ilyaslamasse]

Well, interaction with PHP looks really great. I'll try to steal Eyez's book, and then make a few tutorials about it. I don't think it was made for MX though...

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[thoriphes]

alright, kamello. an answer to your prayers. i'm gonna try to make a tutorial on a dynamic menu. this menu is totally customizable (to a certain extent) meaning you can change the number of items, the links, etc. by just changing some code. (yikes, i said code). Actionscript will be heavily involved with this, so everyone be prepared. also, as i do with my other tutorials (yeah, all 2 of em), i'll guide you all through the script line by line telling you what each line does. so watch out for a new tutorial hopefully in two days. anyway, gotta start!

[amoahb]

Kirupa, you can write detailed tutorials on how to do all those cool movies with contiuous moving objects we find on your site. I really love the ones with squares.

[liveacoustic]

The problem with a lot of tutorials is that, well, they're useless. If I take something like the random motion tutorial, I'll get nothing out of it. I might be able to copy and paste it into a new file, but I won't be able to change very much because I haven't actually learnt anything.

Contrarily, if I take something like the duplicateMovie tutorial, there we go, I've learnt a new command. I know how to duplicate movie clips. I can use this in any context where it's useful.

Give us really simple tutorials that just teach how to do one specific thing (preferrably a command), then let us put two and two together to figure out how to combine these functions and make something more complexe.

[thoriphes]

the point of some of these tutorials is to teach you the basics and some new things. you don't take a tutorial for what it is, but what you learn from it. i'd sure as hell rather learn from experience/example than from textbooks. i agree that there are some tutorials that shouldn't be because they don't teach you anything. when i write, i aim to talk about some elements in flash nobody would think of using yet is pivotal with learning flash. For example, i remember one time i gave a short lil tutorial that used the Align panel. most people didn't even know that lil tool existed! yet it is so useful in many cases.

[flatline damnation]

You can make some tutorials about the new actions implemented in Flash MX, like the one that loads external sound file etc...
But make tutorials that can be actually useful, not something that I don't need. (that's a bit egoistic... sorry)

[thoriphes]

i hear ya, i'll try working on it.

[ilyaslamasse]

LiveAcoustic does have a point there. I agree that the tutorials I enjoyed the most were not random motion or the stinky bacteria effect, but those simple swapDepths, duplicateMovieClip, tellTarget and such. I totally agree that there should be a short tutorial for all those functions, just to tell us how it works.
That's not a reason not to make any 'special effects' tutorials though (man, I just did this gravity thing :lol: )
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[kirupa]

Pom,
I agree with you that there needs to be more tutorials such as the duplicateMovieClip and such. Duplicate and Swap Depths are my favorite tutorials because people can learn those concepts and create cool animations without having to learn other 'stuff'.

I'm currently pouring through the Flash MX manuals I received (reviewer's copy) and I will have a tutorial for most of all the actionscript portions such as: tellTarget, attachSound, the ScrollBox for images and text, and many more. I still have not forgotten about the fully functional flash site, etc. etc.

Once I survive the last quarter of school (8 weeks), I will definitely spend more time adding a LOT of tutorials on various topics such as ActionScript, Special Effects (all the animations on my site such as my footer, etc.), Swift 3D, and more.

Cheers!
Kirupa =)

[sodium15]

drop down menu's on 1 key frame,adjust music volume ,thats all that i can think of at the moment

[Phil Jayhan]

Actionscript Encyclopedia

And actionscript encyclopedia would be really a swell idea. Think about this;
A catalogue of very simple and hard things that can be done using actionscript. With the illustarted tutorial on how to make such effect, along with 'string tutes' that would be conected on how to do the same thing using a 'different' script. I think this ones a winner too.

pj
thinking man
This is kind of a hybrid of Lives good idea above