20+ Flash Action Scripting 3.0 Tutorials for Your Future Flash Projects

Flash is widely used because it performs equally well on Windows PC, MAC and Linux platforms, as well as all browsers.

According to Adobe, Flash player saturation presence on all computers worldwide where somewhere around 95%. This alone compelled many businesses  to consider Flash as a viable presentations and data delivery tool with widespread acceptance. Flash however was been hit by many updates due to security vulnerabilities and it has not always worked too well in Internet Explorer. Apple decided to ban flash in their iPhone and iPad products and it is a problem for Flash since companies need to consider alternatives for mobile channels. So, Flash i dying slowly but this should not hold you back from reading this post.

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 efficiently over the Internet. In this article i will feature 20+ flash action script tutorials to enhance your designing skills and may serve as a simulation for your future flash projects.

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1. Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript 3

Flash CS3 allows you to create either an ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 document. There are a number of ways ActionScript 3 is dissimilar from version 2. One of the first changes designers is no longer being able to attach a script to a button instance. In the following steps you’ll learn how to manage buttons using ActionScript 3 while creating a direct for selecting perennials.

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

Flash Platform is a great tool to create games, moreover for internet or mobile content. With the preface of Flash 3D Engines, the aptitude and success of creating flash games is even bigger. In this tutorial we are going to construct up a simple sliding puzzle. Puzzle images are dynamically loaded and sliced so you can easily use your own images if you like. Learn, try and leave a comment presentation your results.

3. 3D Menu on a Cube with Perspective

Provide several custom classes which make building 3D menus like the cube menu below easy.

4. Expanding the Flash Actionscript 3.0 Videoplayer

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

5. Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

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

6. Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

The tutorial about how to create a 3d spectrum display from a sound file with papervision3d and flash. On this tutorial, the focus is on the 3d part.

7. 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.

8. Creating a Weather Widget with XML and Actionscript 3.0

This tutorial will present to you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a dissimilar interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Attractive cool stuff. Connect it with weather.com XML data file with your flash widget. Weather.com offers a free service to do that.

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

In this tutorial,the concentration is to recreate the Flip Effect used in the iPhone’s UI using Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0. (click the image to see demo)

10. ColorPicker Component in Flash CS3

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

11. 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.

12. Building flash video player

13. Mp3 player with volume slider using Actionscript 3

Flash ActionScript 3.0 tutorial, this time it concentrates in making a mp3 player with a volume slider,Some tried making one but, it didn’t work out that well, but after a few tweaks it is rest assured , this works great so just follow along or download the source code.

14. Vertical 3D Carousel with ActionScript 3

This tutorial will show you how to create a vertical 3D carousel with the help of ActionScript 3.

15. Flash Mouse Trailer with Stars

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

16. 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. (click the image to see the demo).

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Basics of Papervision3D

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

22. 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.

23. Creating a AIR Web Service Package with Flash and Actionscript 3.0 –

Base Service Class And Simple Twitter API

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Dustin Betonio

Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. His earlier career was devoted on customer service outside the information highway. Currently studying Law in the same University.