Flash interface animations…

…have to be almost over before the user knows what’s happening.

As soon as a user understands what’s happening with an animation, it has to finish or do something different; otherwise it bores. Seems obvious doesn’t it, but so many flash interface designs frustrate users because the animations are sluggish and boring.

Speed them up, or make them more interesting.

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  • rachel
    Posted June 15, 2006 at 3:52 am 0Likes

    i need help in my actionscript project. im supossed to create a basketball game right now i can only make the ball bounce up and down but cant make it bounce realistically hitting the left and right walls…i also need a preloader for my game. Any idea?? im using flash professional 8 for my project

  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted June 15, 2006 at 10:10 am 0Likes

    >> i need help in my actionscript project. im supossed to create a basketball game

    >> Any idea??

    How about saying hello before launching into what you need? How about taking the time to learn some manners, and then spend some time learning to understand ActionScript.

    Hope that helps!

  • World Of _COoKies
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 2:45 am 0Likes

    hmmm… i was wondering if u can assist me.im now trying to make the ball bounce my teacher says need the deltaX and deltaY .. i nt sure where to put the formula and must set to what value…

  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 3:15 am 0Likes

    hey,

    If you have a teacher, use your teacher 🙂

    I’d love to have the time to help you with your project but I’m very busy.

    Find some tutorials, or ask your teacher to recommend some tutorials, and then read them 🙂

    Good luck!

  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 3:23 am 0Likes

    I recommend taking a deep breath, and then reading this:

    http://www.slash7.com/pages/vampires

    The best way to get help from busy people is to make it very easy for the person you’re asking for help from. ie. link to an example of your project online – both a swf and an .fla zipped up, with _exact_ instructions of where you’re going wrong.

    If you can’t pinpoint where you’re going wrong, then you’re not trying hard enough yourself.

    Hope that helps!

  • World Of _COoKies
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 3:45 am 0Likes

    my teacher only give abit of tips. actually the teacher diidt really explain the codes to us properly he was just merely telling us what is this for…. ya… so is like i dunno how to computate the formual properly

  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 4:14 am 0Likes

    Look, a quick Google of:

    “throwing ball with actionscript”

    led to this:

    http://www.actionscript.org/showMovie.php?id=12

    Take some initiative…

  • World Of _COoKies
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 6:22 am 0Likes

    my notes are pretty simplified then is like i really dunno how to add the thing lo… what i can do i spend like 4 days thinking and testing for hours still cannot do what….zzz the only way is to seek help and guidance…

  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 7:09 am 0Likes
  • World Of _COoKies
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 8:33 pm 0Likes

    hmmm… dun like that la… help also cannot i not help vampire i just need abit of help in making the ball throw only. i also never ask euu help me do the whole script.zzz

  • World Of _COoKies
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 10:42 pm 0Likes

    pls help me…=(

  • World Of _COoKies
    Posted June 17, 2006 at 2:00 am 0Likes

    hmm..ok since we dun wanna help i shall not force euu. Bye. yr Blog is nice anyway.=)Have a nice day!

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