EragonZZZZ -> RE: Flash Q&A thread 3 (3/12/2007 20:30:44)
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Okay, there are a few options in this situation. Whichever one you pick depends on your desire and learning style: 1. You can buy one of the numerous flash teaching books to learn actionscript. I recommend Beginning AS 2.0 Flash 8 AS Bible OOP for AS 2.0 I would advise buying them according to skill level...the OOP one is very advanced and covers stuff that I'm using in my things. Also, you could look up some AS 3.0 books (just thought I'd save flsg the trouble of saying that lol) 2. You can look online for tutorials or get a teacher here on the forums. FlashKit.com, gotoAndPlay.it, and numerous other sites have great tutorials on anything you could want. The problem is, sometimes they don't teach you so much as feed you code...so watch what you read and make sure you know what code you input does. Otherwise, you're gonna have a hell of a time debugging. Tutorials for AS on this forum are rare, though. Scripters are in a much lower demand than artists. 3. My favorite, and the way I learn every program. Read the included help documentation. Just the first introduction. Read a bit about the scripting window and what you can do with it. Look at some examples. When you are ready, DIVE RIGHT IN! Code like crazy! Try to do random things! If you look on my computer, I have about 40+ .fla and .swf files that are just circles and rectangles and lines doing things that can be implemented in games; Multiple shots, side scrolling, jumping, walking, tileset generators....tons of mini-engines (and some not-so-mini ones, too). Flash's debug can be tricky at first. So when you have a problem with a piece of code, just look it up in the help docs. Normally each function has a full page devoted to it. Read up on it, check the syntax. Look at the examples. Repeat. Soon enough, you'll come to realize that you don't need to look at the help docs as often, and will become a semi-fluent (trust me, thats good) actionscripter. Now, to become what I call a fluent actionscripter, you're gonna dedicate around 9 months of continuous scripting and crazy stuff like that...thats how long it took me.... Whoops. Never mind. I'd been programming for 5 years previously, so it might be a BIT harder for you. ________________________________ Good luck with scripting! Feel free to PM me for help and stuff! -Eragon PS- Your art rocks.
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