Since the release of Flash MX, there has been an abundance of tutorials and .fla’s describing the use of new actionscript features to create movieclips “on the fly.” This one, though, will demonstrate how to dynamically manipulate properties (in this case color and alpha) of these scripted m.c.’s. This demo contains a handful of premade movieclips and buttons, the design of which, again, is at the creator’s discretion. First, there is a “node” m.c. This is just a point which will serve as the “frame” of our scripted movie clip and could be just a simple 1 pixel by 1 pixel dot or a “throwable” sphere (as in the demo) or even omitted if you prefer (though it will be easier to follow this tutorial if one is included). |