Recently by Jarrod

Recently I was looking for a way to make some cool rusted metal text in Photoshop, and after searching through a few tutorials on Google I decided that all of them were garbage. So I messed around for a while and created my own.

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Today I’m going to show you how to do something a little more fun than usual. We’re going to be making a simple particle system in Flash CS3.

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Watch me do my best Bob Ross impression while teaching you how to create a preloader in Actionscript 3. No happy trees included.

Download the example files here. Video after the jump!

There are several ways to embed Flash on a web page - some are better than others. Here’s the one we’ve found to work best:

First, you’ll need to go to the SWFObject home page to download the javascript. You can also read up on SWFObject here. The example html included inside the zip file should be enough for you to figure it out, but in case you have a short attention-span (like me); I’m going to walk you through it, step by step.