KnowFlash.com - Scrolling Game Background Flash Tutorial

[ZthaIncredible]

great vid mate, exactly what I need and youve made it very simple cheers.

[MarlyManning]

Thanks, you have made this seem very simple and straightforward.

[MrDynamoDuck]

Nice and simple, thanks!

[eishiba]

When you are using one layer, and you are putting picture after picture one per frame, how do you set macromedia so that each picture will be the same size so you don't have to keep going to the "Properties, filter, and peremiters" section and changing the size? Is there anything that automatically sets it to whatever size you want or whats the best course of action to take? Anyone?

[CalamityJade]

as simple as useful, thanks so much for sharing! ♥

[jar555555]

yes

[sk8r2000]

Don't know what it is for mac, don't really care...

I LOVE YOU.

[whereisvince]

and how would you make something like this accelerate when holding a certain button and decelerate when not pressing that button????

[OneCanOfSprite2K9]

Thanks for the help man now i can make my Halloween flash look better!

[PrincesTomboy]

what I need is that when you mouse over something [IE an arrow] THEN the screen scrolls. can you help me with that? D:

[sk8r2000]

@PrincesTomboy

Here's an idea:

On the first frame of your movieclip, put a "stop" script. Give the movieclip with the tween in it an instance name, I'll use "bgscroll1". Go to the actions for what you want to mouse over. Put in this script:

on (rollOver) {

_root.bgscroll1.play();

}

on (rollOut) {

_root.bgscroll1.stop();

}

I haven't tested this, but it should work.

[sunikusudude]

PRetty useful

[mark0w]

for a mac its apple c then apple v to copy and paste.

just thought id pop that little nugget of unimportant information in there.

nice tutorial.

your truly yogurt pot man......obviouslySTOP

[N08ODY]

Shut the fuck up macs suck ass and they are what windows shitted out they don't even have any programs made by mac there all windows completable. Mac's are only have 1% of the market share because 99% of the population was smart enough to buy a REAL computer

[Manifest222]

lol atleast macs dont crash.

[acm3212002]

Dude, Windows totally sucks too...

[LRFLEW]

Technically, it's COMMAND C and COMMAND V, but it doesn't really matter. 

P.S. Shut up Mr. Nobody!!!

[Sunrie]

You're making this more complicated than it has to be.

Also, when you select the items inside of the first movie clip, you convert them (select them and press F8) you turn it into a SYMBOL, NOT another movie clip!

[KnowFlash]

A movie clip is a type of SYMBOL. There are only three types. Movie clips, graphics, and buttons Movie clip nesting is a completely acceptable way of achieving the effect..

[DJBassEnergy]

its a very good tutorial but CAN SOMEBODEY MAKE A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO MAKE A TOWER DEFENCE GAME!? ^^,

[Renkay141]

uh... okay, I dont really get it that much

[Vipar557]

thanks man :-D now i know how to make 3 types of games!

[4retardsproductions]

i have a mac and i care

[touch1a]

your the man!

[LPSean29]

Thanks

[GhostHunter1986]

i tried that scrolling thing with the stage thing and its not doing anything

[GhostHunter1986]

how do u do the motion tween for the stages its not letting me

[chao100000]

YES,THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[animguy123]

MAKE A GAME Tutorial IT WOULD BE THE BEST

[JUANYUK1]

hi!thank you very much just want to ask you how can you control the speed of the scrolling bakgrounds??thanks again!!

[ss1extreme]

just use lesser frames (faster) and more frames (slower)

[abdur17]

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCHHHHH

[Pablos544]

That was nice & simple. I tried doing this before and i fiddled around with it forever, you made it all seem simple. I can see you might easily progress to make a game on this. Thanks man :)

[peterklate]

that was so cool

[DEBRADEBRIS]

ok, i got one question about backgrounds. I'm kinda into those animations like eddsworld, noggin etc. When i make all the layers and the animation, can i put the background on later so it will be behind all the body parts? please help!

[KnowFlash]

Yeah, just create the background layer beneath all your other layers.

[DEBRADEBRIS]

umm... how would i do that?

[KnowFlash]

Just drag the background layer underneath your others.

[Arrroza]

Select the other layer that you wanna be on top (select everything) then go to modify, click arange, and click bring to front so that it will go in front of the backround

[Nickondeweb]

Move the layer to the bottom (or top, forgot).

Simple

[Bareham4]

Thanks alot. Been trying to work this out 4 ages and all other tutorials have been no help, but yours was very simple and easy to follow.

[voronovitch]

very nice! could someone explain me why we need to create 2 symbols? why wouldn't be one (the two pictures put together) enough? thanks in advance and sorry if t was a stupid question but i'm an absolute beginner :)

[iamadonkey11]

Awsome!

[GJ4215]

Nice Video. How do you get the testscreen as big as the size of the document?

[scorpz2k6]

CTRL + Enter key

[anikethdsouza]

does anyone know to action script to scroll a background on 3d with mouse position. i need that script. plz help and give me the link to it if possible or create one... plz help

[StupidSant]

Wicked tutorial mate,

Thanks

StupidSaint

[finntrask]

Thanks, man.

[Darkmasterofevil]

it wouldnt let me align it usin the buttons

[eatworms]

make sure that you select the "to stage" icon i think he forgot to mention that or assumed it would be on.. I love these tutorials i just wish i had a copy of the program.. have to use it at college!

[ToxicNoodle]

I thought you meant a actual background scroller, like when you move left it goes left, if you move up it goes up or something :(

Well good tutorial, hope you can make one of the kind I said because I need to do that for my game

[Unknown1101]

You're the man! Your video and all other people who makes these kind of tutorials really helps us newbies, among others to get good grades at school, so thank you - a lot! :D

[khushipotter]

hi known flash,

I am from Uk,London.I am atrained 2D animator and now self teaching flash.All this tutorials are really helpful and I am really thankful to u for the gradual tutorilas.

thanks and cheers.

[hazonku]

Good tutorial. Kind of a "duh common sense" topic but hey some of us noobs wanna just dive right in neck deep right? Oh suggestion fellow noobs. I downloaded an open source (as in the .FLA file) flash game and then went in and tweaked the graphics, etc to my preference, I learned a lot about autoscript & animation doing that, I suggest you try it.

[Hybrid899]

Awesome! I never could figure out how people have created scrolling backgrounds. Turns out it's a simple thing to do.

[kirkpatrickdavid]

kl thanks. how do you make it bounce back? can you do it vertical?

[PokeWifi]

Yes just do the same only vertical

[caryl21]

wow! that is wicked! thanks for sharing;)

[luffy000000]

What botton i press if u want more frames?!

[hazonku]

huh? Like more total or more per second? just like a higher number in the top where the frames are displayed then you can go down into properties {not 100% sure I'm a noob too} and to tweak the fps.

[assiost]

Haha, nickynick58, this is NOT movie maker, and you cannot do this on movie maker!

[nickynick58]

Do you know how to do this on microsoft movie maker

[Staffmaster123]

Reply to nickynick58:

hahaha u funny!Seriosly no offense but ur a moron if u think u can do this with movie maker.This program is a FLASH ANIMATION program.Not slideshow/Effects like movie maker.You can make a slideshow like an animation,but u need 10 pics to make it good.Buy Flash 8 if ur willin to pay $699.Or u can pirate it.

[dfhgdsghdsfgh]

It was kind of funny when he said that "its control+C for a PC and I don't know what it is for a mac, and I don't really care." But for reference its apple+C.

[73JJ3NA]

hahaha this guy is funny! i always hear something a lil humoruous in each of his videos! really helpful too XD

[hazonku]

I agree I actually laughed out loud for real when he said that cause you could tell he really doesn't care. Neither do I though. I mean Apple has their own flash programs right? They got their own versions of everything else. So screw the Mac users.

[2MoonsPromoter]

get ur facts straight. Some programs mac use are different (and better). But mac also uses adobe things. Now, dont flame me for hating pc n loving mac. I think Mac is just better to work with, PC is for games.

[super3boy]

Yea! Screw the overpriced macs, with their shiny, but poorly coded OS.

[StickoSam]

cheers mate

[grammargrub]

Very good

[SunaipaaKisei]

wow thnx

[tfsproductions]

thank a trilion