Questions tagged [flash]
Adobe Flash is a cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages.
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Coding a health and stamina bar above player in Adobe Animate
I am using Adobe Animate for my school assignment.
I have a three-segment health and stamina bar that is above the player (it isn't set to be attached to the player yet).
I have a single enemy ...
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I have an editable SWF with Refferal protection, how would I remove that [closed]
Im using JPEXS to edit an SWF I obtained of MutilateADoll2 that is Site locked (referrer) to the kongregate website, is it possible to.... per say... Remove that referral lock and gain access to use ...
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How can I make 3D games in 4K that are a few megabytes?
I would like to make 3D games in 4K that are a few Megabytes (MB) in download size.
Is there a way to use 3D Vector Graphics in games to reduce the file size ?
Or is there any other way to achieve ...
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Feasible to do all game logic on PHP server?
For the turn-based browser Flash RPG I'm working on, I'm keeping all player stats in a MySQL database, with PHP as the go-between, for the sake of persistence and to prevent cheating by memory editing....
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Better way than url-encoded query stings to pass data from PHP to Flash?
For the turn-based browser Flash RPG I'm working on, I'm using url-encoded query stings to pass data from PHP to Flash. Basically, Flash posts a request to PHP, then PHP pulls some data from a MySQL ...
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Should all stats only exist on MySQL database for my Flash browser RPG?
I'm creating a browser RPG in Flash which will have some multiplayer elements and in-app purchases so security is a high concern. Would it be better to have all game stats like health and such exist ...
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How does Actionscript choose which order to run objects' code in?
I can only assume that Flash runs code in the order that objects were created - so newer objects are run later. Is this true?
Is there any way, other than deleting and recreating objects, that I can ...
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Character jumping but not returning to ground platform game AS3
I am making a platform game where the main character moves right and left and jumps however my character jumps and does not return to the ground but stays on top of the stage.My characters movie-clip ...
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flash - hitTestObject() mafunction?
Is there a way that even though two objects that have different y co-ordinate collide?
In my game, I wanted to make my object rotate as explained in ...
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Rotation of objects from different axes in Flash AS3
In my game, I have made 4 lines with different colors to form a square but the colored lines are different objects. I want to rotate the lines in a way that the lines will still form a square. Eg:
But ...
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Camera and enemy behaviour in AS3 platformer
beginner in AS3 here. I am working on a platformer game based on the code of a provided example exercise. I have the following problem:
I have an enemy who shoots bullets. The enemy is the parent, and ...
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How to make proper animations for a html5 game?
I am working on a web based MMORPG in html5.
Therefore, I think about using Phaser.io to be the main engine of the game on the client side.
I want the game to be isometric and I am wondering how to ...
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How do I load an array of display objects with shared objects using action script 3.0? [duplicate]
I'm making a city builder game, where players can build their town using different constructions. A player has the possibility to save his city. In the main menu, a player can choose to see different ...
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AS3 move object to a point
I'm trying to make a room full of monster each side and the player stay in the middle. I have a problem, I don't know how I move each monster to the player and rotate each of them to face the player, ...
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How can I improve the seemingly capped framerate of my flash game?
I used to be sure that all Flash games are capped to 30fps as Edmund McMillen's The Binding of Isaac runs at that frame rate. N v2.0 (Flash Player 11) runs at ...
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How to make game like Gals Panic [closed]
Any one have a idea how to build game like Gals Panic. I want to know the basic idea how can i start building the game.
Note : im a flash game developer.So anything related to flash would be helpful.
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Which better? Write all scripts on timeline or write it partially on `.as` file?
I'm going to create a flash game. But I don't know which way for me to write my scripts.
Is it better if I write script part by part and by object so every object has they own script .. or write all ...
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How should I animate sprites with separate body parts?
I am not an artist. I have a 2D Sprite broken up into different body parts that I want to animate. I know how to do it in Unity, but every artist I know would prefer to use Flash. I am trying to ...
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How to create UI for 2D games? [closed]
I'm working on a game using Haxe + Flambe but I'm having a hard time making the UI part of it (main screen, level selection, etc).
And I began to think... is there another way?
I would love to have ...
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Host Migration (P2P) with RTMFP and AS3
I was wondering if this is a possibility with RTMFP since it acts like UDP/P2P..
Host Migration
Player A starts and host a game..
Player B and C connects..
Player A quits..
Player B is now assigned ...
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Is Flash (Flash/Flex/AIR) a still maintained technology (either officially / 3rd party) suitable for Web Player (linux) and mobiles? [closed]
Today I use Flash Player 11 since it's the last one released by Adobe, for linux-based OSs. The same applies to Flex/AIR platforms: I use Flex 4.1.4 and AIR 2.6, while Windows and Mac systems have ...
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Flash animation or Sprite sheet animation good for Unity mobile games
I would like to develop dress-up and cooking kind of games. So it needs lots of animations. Our designers done the animations in the lash. I found the plugins callued GAF and UniSWF to convert flash ...
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How to create animations for a game like Creative kill chamber?
Lately, I have been playing Creative kill chamber game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW6PyOy34fY). This game is a flash game where gameplay is "hardcoded". I mean, it is a game where player can ...
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Accessing a C++-based optimization library in FlashPunk
Some time ago I launched my FlashPunk primer, an adaption of Asteroids, which mainly served as a basis for trying out a simple optimization algorithm.
Now I'm planning to take this concept a level ...
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AS3 - Increase tint as health decreases
I'm working on a game where enemies continually spawn with more and more health based on how long you've been playing. As the enemies take damage, I'd like their sprite to get darker and darker, until ...
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How do I create this type of mixed 2D/3D character model?
I'm interested in how this little Lively Hamster Flash game's character is modelled and animated.
The head seems 3D. The back always shows a black outline, so I assume it is 2D.
Is this a Flash-...
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Level Design: Char Traveling to and from a Site
I'm developing a 2d platformer game where your character can travel to and from sites as he pleases. To travel to and from these sites the character must travel along a path between his current ...
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addChild does not work in Flash [closed]
Have been trying to understand this problem for two weeks.
When I use addChild(movieclip) in the Main.as file, it works. When I try to use it in a function in a separate class file it does not work.
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Calculations for a camera system
I am building an interactive application in Starling for which a camera system is required. Since there is no existing camera system in flash and the addons for starling do not meet our requirements, ...
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How to achieve smooth sprite movement with a scaled up canvas?
I'm developing a simple 2d platformer using haxe & openfl (currently targeting flash). To achieve the old school pixelation effect I draw 16x16 sprites over a 4x scaled up canvas. With this ...
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AC3 FlashPunk Console doesn't show anything
I am making my project using flashpunk , I knew that it has a good console gui to give feed about states of the game , however when I tried making it appear with the FP.console.enable() method it ...
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Port sandbox flash game to Android and iOS
I'm want port my sandbox game to Android and iOS. Game written in AS3 (i'm use my simple 2d engine on stage3d). What do you recommend I use?
Haxe + OpenFL
MonoGame + Xamarin (C#), or other 2D engine ...
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Framerate on AIR for Android - Actionscript 3
I am currently working on making Android apps using AIR for Android.
This is a sample file and package that I am running to test the FPS and Memory usage of my application while it is not even doing ...
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importing images as pixel-perfect from flash to Unity
I am not sure if this works, it just feels like it should. So I have this character in flash:
And what I want to do is import him into Unity, and making him pixel-art. (And yes, for those wondering; I ...
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Using Flash IDE to link nodes for Dijkstra algorithm
I'm trying to use plash to set up the node connections, but having a really hard time to use the IDE as a tool to do so. Before giving up completely, and getting into creating a tool that would take ...
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How do I pause and resume a game in ActionScript 2?
I'm making a game where the player must avoid random falling objects. I dont know how to implement pausing. I've been stuck on this for 2 days!
I tried using ...
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Change DisplayObject's bounds in Flash/AS3
I'm developing some platform-like game using AS3 and Flash CS5 for animations. I've already done most of the mechanics now, and I've starded to drawing characters and animating them. But some problem ...
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Controlling depths of objects in Flash
I am trying to change depths/ layers of my gameobjects inside the game using flash. To be more specific, I have a horse object and a fence object. I set them up initially on stage and the horse layer ...
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multiple flash timeline animations with actionscript
I am not new to AS3 and Flash but new to Flash timeline animations and controlling them with AS3. Had posted a similar question last week but the solution did not work. Hope someone could help me out ...
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Multiple animations on flash timeline
I am working on a game inside Flash with ActionScript 3.
I have a horse game object with different animations for Walk, Run and so on. I have never worked with different animation types with Flash ...
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Mouse follow precision in flash
I am trying to implement a simple movement for one of game objects in flash/ AS3. I am using mouseX, mouseY for my object to follow the mouse pointer. It works fine but the problem is the precision of ...
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How do I combine matrix transformation with non-uniform screen scaling in Flash?
I'm using a Flash transformation matrix for affine transformation.
I have a rectangular image being rotated and scaled (in 2D). There are two sets of scaling variables, ScreenScaleX and ScreenScaleY, ...
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Can I extract Flash SWF sprite frames to bitmaps?
I want to create the 2D graphics of my game in Flash Studio, but then get all the frames from my SWF movies into C# for further work in Unity3D.
I find it easier to create nice smooth animations in ...
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integrating leaderboard from Newgrounds in flash game [closed]
I have made flash game and I want to show a leader board in that game.
I have uploaded my game to kongregate.com.
I have made a scoreboard there with the name of overLoadScore (overload is the name ...
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How can I save a global high score for all players in AS3?
I am developing a game in which I want to make a scoring system where the global high score is stored and shared by all players.
I am using Flash and ActionScript 3. Until now I've used ...
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AndEngine GLES 2 Animate Character [closed]
I want to animate my character in game. My graphic animator prepare for me three options.
Frame-by-frame by this is over 9MB for one animation. With TextureSpriter 4-5MB.
Spriter but I can't find how ...
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Effective content manager on AS3 Flash
In my game more than 600 images and 200 sounds. I'm try organize effective images and sounds manager for fast access. This is a good approach?
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Shared Object Not saving the level Progress
I am making a flash game in which i have a variable levelState that describes the current level in which user has entered I am using SharedObject to save the progress
but it does not do so
first i ...
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AS3 eventListener not working [closed]
I am making a game with as3. I have a Mian Class.In its main function i am putting a movieClip stored in a variable named btn and attaching an EventListener to it for CLICK which envokes a function ...
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AS3 Starling in Fullscreen Mode cuts off most of the screen
I have a mixed mode (classic Flash Renderer + Starling) AIR AS3 project that I'm switching to fullscreen with
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