Adding Animations

Adding animations was the easier of the two. I knew how to do that a couple months ago and it is my favorite part of Flash. If you have extra time in Globaloria class (which we rarely get) I mess around with keyrframes. I spell my name out by adding one letter per frame. It's really fun. Drag and drop wasn't that hard but it was harder than the adding animations. My good buddy, Collin, who was sitting next to me at the time helped me. Here are is the link. The football ball with the smaller white lines representing laces on them is the football that you drag and as you can tell, the one with the thicker ones is the football with action.

Adding Mouse Input

I have seen many assignments in Globaloria that looked hard at first but when I got into it, it wasn't hard by any stretch of the imagination. I haven't used many of the instructional videos because I didn't think they did a very good job. I used other sources like my friends. The instructional video for animation was pretty good though. Drag and drop didn't have a video but pictures and codes that you could copy and paste to the actions layer to your scene. My friend Collin did a pretty good drag and drop. I don't know what the cup's for but it caught my eye. Without further ado, here it is.

Staying Caught Up

Is it me or is it really hard to stay caught up in Globaloria? I think it's pretty hard. I manage though. It takes lots of hard work and time though. One thing is that I have to go to lunch ZAP (Zeroes aren't permitted). I'm not going there because I have zeroes. I'm going there to prevent zeroes. It works pretty well too. I also seperate myself from the rest of the class. By doint that, I don't goof off or anything. The nearest person to me is two seats away.

Working With Buttons

Trying to get buttons to work wasn't that fun for me. It didn't take me that long to do though. It just seemed like a while because of how much I anticipated it. Now, adding buttons to scenes is easy and fun. I still have questions though. I noticed that when you copied and pasted a code from the Wiki Tips place on myglife.org, it only showed two codes but I think that I can get it to work. I've had doubts about many things in Globaloria this year. How am I going to do this? How am I going to do that? In the end though everytime, it worked for me. I definitley had doubts about adding buttons but I got into business (I couldn't think of anything else to say).

My Christmas Break

We have many Christmas traditions at our house. One is on Christmas Eve we always eat dinner at the Chinese restaurant in Lewisburg. We also travel the day after Christmas or someone comes to our house so we're always with family during the holidays. Christmas for us doesn't have as many traditions as Thanksgiving does but they are still great traditions. We also always go to the 5:45 Christmas Eve mass at our church. The only year we didn't go was I think 5 years ago when we showed up at the wrong Catholic church since there is 3 in Greenbrier County. We also spend time with family and friends on New Years. We usually go to a suburb of Richmond, VA called Glen Allen. There are some unfortunate traditions that happen that we don't want to. Every year, someone in my family gets sick. One year, everyone but my dad got sick. That's 4 out of 5 people. This year I was the only one to catch it though. I wish it were someone else though.