COAP:COAP-2110/week4

Week 4

Theme: Basic interactivity

Introduction to buttons and some ActionScript

• Topics: Button frame-by-frame animation, creating slide shows (timeline navigation) with buttons
• Previews: Simple slide show, Rocket launcher, Menus with buttons, Image maps with pictures, Buttons with animation
• Handout: Flash button tutorial

Homework 4 - Week 4

Assignment

This time you will have two options:

1. Option A: Create a really complex button and that includes well done graphics and/or animations. In addition, create 3 minor variants of the same button. To do so: duplicate then rename the button you created first (right-click in the library). I only require you to design buttons in this option.
2. Option B: Create an application where the user can navigate on the timeline, e.g. a slide show of pictures or a portfolio of prior work or a "story". Then create a Flash file that includes:
   • At least four buttons that you can place either on single frames, extend over several frames or over the whole timeline. These buttons should position the playhead (i.e. the user) in a new frame. In other words, these buttons must allow the user to move from frame to other frames.
   • To make this work, you must add a stop() instruction to the script layer of each "start" keyframe.

Reuse of homework 1 and 2

• If you wish you can use your previous homework (in any way you like), e.g. include each animation as swf file in a different frame. But this is by no means an obligation nor does it have an influence on grading.

Submission date and format

• To be returned by Monday, at start of week 5 lesson
• Use the following Flash file name project4-familyname-firstname.fla, e.g.

project4-miller-joe.fla

... I must be able to distinguish these files and we want to avoid overwriting.

Other constraints

• Reuse of objects: 1/3 must be drawn by yourself, max. 1/3 imported but customized, max. 1/3 imported as is. (So you also can do everything by yourself).
• There is no restriction on the subject, e.g. you can create any "slide show" you want or

design any crazy button you like.

• For the slideshow (only) you can take either buttons from the library or make your own.
• You must fill in a document description using the same template as in homework 1.
• Homework projects are individual. If you work with others, make sure that the individual projects differ, i.e. the "reuse of objects" criteria above apply.
• If you reuse old homework, make sure that certain errors are fixed (e.g. use only a single non-editable object in a motion tween)

Evaluation criteria - bonus and malus points

Same as before (include late submission policy). You can examine the grading rubric in the worldclassroom.

The document description

Your p4-xxx-xxx.fla file must include a document description.

• Insert it with menu Modify->Document
• Enter a title and description
• See the template