Flash animation with motion guide tutorial
A good tutorial writer is above all a good tutorial reader. So, in order to write my tuts, I spend a valuable amount of time reading third part tutorials. Starting from today, I am going to make some partnerships with other talented writers to have their best tutorials here.
Why am I doing this? Simply because there is no point in writing a tutorial from scratch if the net already provides one covering the same topic. Someone would simply copy the tutorial, change some words and publish it as his own tutorial, but it’s not my case.
So I found this excellent tutorial about animation with motion guide written by Lukamaras (http://www.lukamaras.com/).
Knowing motion guides can be very useful in a game when you want to assign a moving path to the foes. Just imagine the cops in Security game creation part 2.
So let’s start:
Preparing your document
1. Open a new Flash document. Before starting to work on the actual animation, you need to adjust a few settings and import some graphics. Select Modify > Document (or press Ctrl+J) to open the Document Properties dialog box. Read more