Monday, November 8, 2010

Building a Basic Menu




I really enjoyed creating this project and hope to make another one but better. This was just really quick menu project to get the feel for it. It was all in Action Script 2.0.
First, to create this effect, you need to create the animation. Afterwards, you go to the end keyframe and then press F9 to open the Actions menu. Turn on Script Assist then go to Global Functions>Timeline Control>then double click Stop. You then name the layer by going to functions, then properties and type in a name for it. You then do this for multiple animtions on different layers. After that, you then create a new layer labeled "Menu". On this layer, you begin creating buttons. After creating the first text on the first keyframe for the first animation, you convert it to a symbol (button). You then press F9 for the Actions menu and instead of "Stop", double click "goto". You then make the type "Frame Label" and type in the name of the desired layer. Note that it was whatever you named it in the Properties. Now that you created the button, you can edit it by going to Edit Symbol and you'll see Up, Over, Down, and Hit. Now, the project before did not use the Hit option and all that does it make it easier to press the button by creating a rectangle around it. This determines the space of which you can hit the button. Now, you do this for each of the animations you created. That was pretty much how you created this project. It's so simple and so much fun. You can create a variety of other animations.

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