Flash Resources

[Tijmen]

I thought it was a good idea to make a new Flash resource thread, in a similair style as the Design resource thread

It's a combination of links found in the old .swf thread, other sites and links i have been gathering over the last 2 months since i started working at my new (flash) job.

General

• Flashvalley
• Ultrashock
• Were-here
• Flashgoddess
• Livedocs
• Kirupa
• Flzone
• Flashmagazine
• Emllabs
• Adobe Devnet
• Cummunity Flex
• Flashkit
• FFiles

Tutorials

• Motionculture
• Webwasp
• Gotoandlearn
• Cambodiaxp
• Permadi
• Cbtcafe
• Actionscript
• Toxiclab
• Cartoon Smart
• Free Flash Tutorials
• Senocular
• About
• Flash Vault

Forums

• Flash 8 forums
• Adobe Flash Support Forum
• Flashgroup

Blogs

• Flash99good
• Adobe
• Moock
• Flashcomguru
• Flashguru
• Aralbalkan
• Kuwamoto
• Sephiroth
• Coldhardflash
• Keyframer
• Quip
• 5etdemi
• Darron Schall
• Smith Aaron Lee

Open Source

• Actionscript Application Framework
• Open Source Flash
• Flash Remoting Gateway

Actionscript general

• Bokelberg
• Actionscript.org
• Actionscript dictionary
• Bit-101 (AS Expirements)

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Introduction

• AS2 OOP
• Debreuil

Communicating with other languages (php/xml/javascript)

• Learn Flash PHP, MySQL
• Flash, PHP, MySQL Integration
• Connecting Flash & PHP
• Introduction to XML & Flash
• Flash & PHP
• Flash & Javascript
• Communication between Flash & Javascript

How to fix the “Click to activate” issue in IE

• SWF Object - Fix
• Explanation – Microsoft
• Fix from Adobe

Sounds

• Flash Sound Resources
• Sound Objects

Video

• Video guide
• Create a Talking-Head Video
• Video basics (part 1 – 8)
• Sorenson Video Encoder
• On2 Flix Video
• Video Converter
• Video FAQ
• FLV Web Player
• FLV Standalone Player
• Flash Mediaplayer

Game development

• Flash games
• Game development

Drawing (actionscript)

• Drawing API
• Introduction to drawing methods

Flash Usability

• Flash Usability
• Usability – Adobe

Components

• Flash Components
• Flash Relief
• Slideshow Pro
  

Extensions

• Flash Extensions

Inspiration

• Adobe Showcase
• Flashforward finalists
• Flash Design pages
• The Best Designs
• Favorite Website Awards
• Best Flashanimations

Animation

• Animating Characters – Flash 8

Tools

• Convert .psd to .fla
• Flash Toolset
• Swish
• Screentime
• FlashJester
• swf tools
• Actionscript Editor
• Flax & Flashforge
• Wildform
• AS Docs
• Flv2Swf
• Deep linking for Flash

3D

• Swift 3D
• Flashed 3D Engine

Flash Accessibility

• Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content
• Flash 8 Accessibility Design Guidelines
• Adobe Accessibility Blog

[vgarcia]

this thread just got a whole lot stickier

edit: the old thread for those who want to look through it, even though many things might be out of date.

[Dark Tranquility]

Thanks Tijmen
may be flashkit.com deserves to be in your list too

[Tijmen]

Thanks Tijmen
may be flashkit.com deserves to be in your list too

I can't believe i forgot that one...

[Dark Tranquility]

I can't believe i forgot that one...

it happens

[Net-Margin]

Brilliant been looking for some using PHP with Flash tutorials. Thanks a lot dude, much appreciated.

Off Topic:

this thread just got a whole lot stickier

edit: the old thread for those who want to look through it, even though many things might be out of date.

That could be misinterpreted in so many ways. ;D

[ckita]

Great list dude!

how bout adding the flash script gallery?

http://www.slideshowpro.net

[Tijmen]

Great list dude!

how bout adding the flash script gallery?

http://www.slideshowpro.net

That does look like a very nice gallery script, added to the list

Also added these 3.

Sounds

• Sound Objects

Video

• FLV Web Player
• FLV Standalone Player

[dave owen]

Nice list

I wonder if you would consider adding our free flash media player? I'm not normally one to blow my own trumpet but this player has been getting very good comments and is used by a lot of satisfied people.
http://www.mediacollege.com/flash/media-player/

In any case, thanks for the list.

[Si]

Good work on the bookmarks.

Maybe you might consider going through the Flash FAQ and updating that for us too?

[Dark Tranquility]

Good work on the bookmarks.

Maybe you might consider going through the Flash FAQ and updating that for us too?

that would be very nice Tijmen

[malikyte]

Sweet...I can just import the source of the page as a bookmark folder (named Flash) to Firefox. Thanks a ton!

Off Topic Suggestion: Use Xenu Link Sleuth on an exported bookmark file occassionally to be sure you no longer have dead links in your bookmarks.

[jitu78]

Useful links:

http://actionscript.org
Attention Firefox users: Grab our Firefox Quick Search plugins and you can
search the ActionScript.org Forums, the Library, etc. directly from Firefox!

http://www.flashkit.com
FlashKit's FlashFoundry.com provides more than 100,000 professional Flash components, templates, videos, animations and audio files, all for one subscription fee. This huge compilation of immediately usable .SWF and .FLA files contains thousands of variables and options.

- Jits

[Tijmen]

Useful links:

http://actionscript.org
Attention Firefox users: Grab our Firefox Quick Search plugins and you can
search the ActionScript.org Forums, the Library, etc. directly from Firefox!

http://www.flashkit.com
FlashKit's FlashFoundry.com provides more than 100,000 professional Flash components, templates, videos, animations and audio files, all for one subscription fee. This huge compilation of immediately usable .SWF and .FLA files contains thousands of variables and options.

Both of them where already on the list

[silentweed]

Hi,

If you think my Flashmatics Resources Library - www.experiments.flashmatics.co.uk is worthy , would be great to see it on the list too ..

Cheers

[dymo330]

I think another useful link is http://www.trainsimpleonline.com ~ they have a ton of Flash 7 Actionscript training videos.

[adrianTNT]

Tijmen, maybe you want to add www.FFILES.com.

[Tijmen]

Tijmen, maybe you want to add www.FFILES.com.

Done

And not that long ago i also added SWFaddress to the list.

SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables the Back, Forward and Reload buttons of the browser and creates unique URLs with page titles that can be sent over email or IM.

[geesee]

I would add MovieClip Tweening Prototypes

[awesty]

Nice site. I would also suggest adding my site. It is updated alot with new flash tutorials and sometimes swift 3D tutorials.

http://www.awestyproductions.com

[codersteve]

Nice list.

Question for you all. I'm a 100% Noob at Flash, and I keep on getting recruiters calling asking if I know it, and it's more frustrating every time I have to say "nope, sorry".

My first step is to install the free stuff on my XP machine - in other words, have the ability to compile/create something in Flash, before I even want to entertain a tutorial on Actionscript or anything else.

So my questoin is: Is the best link to follow, this one below ? :

http://www.actionscript.com/Article/...t/Default.aspx

I found this link under the "Tutorial" section in the first post of this excellent thread and clicked on the "ActionScript" link where there were a bunch of resources there and then found the "Towards Open Source Flash Development" link.

At this point, I don't really want to know about Frameworks, or OO Dev't for Flash, etc.. Just want to write something in Flash, so that I could pass an Interview, and then be able to write ActionScript for an employer. That be all.

Thanks. My question, to sum up, is: would this link be a good one i.e. downloading Eclipse and all the tools on that page?

Steve

[codersteve]

Update
I joined the "osflash" mailing list, and posted a similar question on how to get started programming Flash on windows, with free tools and got this response:

To start developing with only os tools, the following tools might be of interrested :

As an IDE you can use :
Eclipse + ASDT (as2)
Flashdevelop (as2/as3)

As a compiler you can use :
Flex 2 SDK (actionscript 3)
MTASC (actionscript 2)

In case anyone here wants to join:
-----------------------------------
osflash mailing list
osflash@osflash.org
http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org

[codersteve]

Another update:

http://www.communitymx.com/content/a....cfm?cid=f3ecf

is a probably better link for starting out completely new with ActionScript on Win platform

[skyraider]

Excellent list. I would like to tag on http://megaswf.com which provides free swf hosting. Also, the swfobject folks recently uploaded v2.0 to http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ and v1.5 remains on the blog.

[pitcher17]

Lee Brimelow (Author of gotoAndLearn.com ) also has a blog about Flash related topics - http://theflashblog.com/