A SWiSH user, OutCast**NL, has submitted this pretty neat game via our forums. Visit the forum post for more information and to download the .swi file.
The game can be played here.
The demo game shows a high score, but I don’t think the downloadable .swi file includes that functionality. If desired, Max3 users can add a high score system using databank as discussed in this blog article.
Thanks OutCast**NL for sharing your work!
If you want to gradually fade out the audio in your .SWF file, it can be done using Actionscript. It isn’t always necessary to provide an actual volume control bar, and in some cases you might simply want to fade the audio out during some other event (such as fading out the background audio while a video plays). The code snippet below will help you do just that.
The source .SWI file for the example above can be downloaded, here: fade-to-volume_v1
You will need SWiSH Max3 (build 2009.11.30 or higher) in order to open/edit the sample file.
Note: The code can also be used in SWiSH Max2 SWI files (you just can’t open the sample file with it).
If you are looking for a convenient way to fade the alpha level (transparency) of an object through Actionscript, then this simple code snippet may be what you need. Without relying on any overhead in the timeline or increasing the file size, this function allows you to animate the alpha level of any object over a specified period of time.
The source .SWI file for the example above can be downloaded, here: fade-to-alpha_v1
You will need SWiSH Max3 (build 2009.11.30 or higher) in order to open/edit the sample file.
Note: The code can also be used in SWiSH Max2 SWI files (you just can’t open the sample file with it).
In many projects, you might have a need to disable a button or two. In some projects, you might need to disable all buttons at once. This process can be tedious if using the most common methods, but we’ll show you how to do it quickly and easily in this short tutorial. One practical example of this might be in something like an image “lightbox” – where you have an image opening on top of your movie and don’t want the buttons beneath it to be clickable.
This first example shows a standard image gallery. Click on any of the thumbnails to open the larger image. You can move your mouse around the movie and see that the cursor changes as you mouseover the buttons. These are all still active and clickable while the image is open. (more…)
The windows sidebar has been removed from Windows 7. However, Gadgets are still supported. Our earlier blog article ‘Make a Vista sidebar gadget’ explained how to make a gadget for Vista, this followup article explains how to convert these previously described gadgets for use on Windows 7.
One of the more powerful features of SWiSH Max3 (and Max2) is the availability of the Content Library. (Sorry, the Library is not available in miniMax products.) The Library allows various Resources to be shared across multiple objects in your movie. Not only does this reduce the size of your movie (i.e. it will load faster), it can also simplify editing changes to your movie since editing the single library resource will cause the change to be reflected in all of the objects that link to this common resource.
Badgets of Honor.
