This is going to be a tutorial showing the ins and outs of a flash map that's I'm
releasing in to the public domain.
I got the data for the map from the... I believe the U.S.
C.I.A.
released it in to the public domain.
So i used that the vector data from them,
brought it in to Flash and organized it to make it a pretty quick and easy to
use for different purposes.
The think I like about this map is it's
pretty accurate on its detail
we'll zoom in here and we have a lot of detail
on the states. I've seen a lot of maps out there that are free for
flash that people of made were they're just these horribly
inaccurate looking images. So that's why I ended up making my own using
accurate data
I'm releasing it out in to the public domain so that anyone can use this for any purpose
that they like.
For profit or otherwise doesn't matter.
This map... I'll show you a quick
demo of what it looks like
Here it is. You can mouse over the states all highlight. You can click on them,
they get darker; pretty simple.
You can go through
and
disable them and make the disabled ones their own color
and change the color of the ones that are still available. So this is a little
example "States our company is located in:"
Just example of something that this map could be used for
so just idea um...
will go into and should not this and show you how setup
uh...
we got city folder here in the library
called graphics
um...
the states is
its own vector
symbol
with uh... some pointed out they have a lot of pointed and a m uh...
but said none of them have any handles their old just these little polygonal
shapes
uh...
which means they're a little bit smaller file size that if they all had handles
um... altogether i believe the outfits with is going to be around forty five or
fifty kilobytes about the same as a p_a_ energy peg of a of a map of the u_s_
uh... but since these are all vector uh... you can scale them in reuse the
symbols of though
increase in the file size which is
handy
uh...
so that's the graphics
pretty straightforward under buttons we've got restates
and same idea except we're using those graphics
for the up
kneeling down and be
the overstate
uh... the only difference being that the brightness has increased by twenty five
percent a year
gerdes' brightness twenty five
it's made a twenty five hundred downstate
and then the hit some or in some cases uh... away great here
these coastal cities
will have their own special at state to make it easier for these outside spots
are every state that needs these little extra coverings rahman has a
uh... on using the symbol um... of the actual state
her words connected and touching other states and forwards uh... touching the
coastline here the ocean asses violence that's words
drawn in
this extra drawn an area is using the bowels uh... eight-point cellar frankie
does lowest possible
uh...
pretty british people were there
uh...
we'll come back out to the main part here
uh... is set up with
uh... couple lawyers to dot the outlines trust mainly just this coastal spot
along the outside you can choose
what color that can be and how thick you want that to be
uh... we've got the state's themselves
which though they all are
the guidelines that separate old states you can change the color of the lines
individually
and then i have a text layer here
mansell i had my text onto for this final which you can really later
and a half years later of course which is uh... stop
uh...
so i'll show the examples scene
puritans
uh... same setup except by the added one more extra thing in here
i split in the states into two groups
so i changed the uh... the stroke layers of edits
uh... phil and stroke of the same color um...
you're the state's better interactive beacon mouseover
and hear the states that are inactive
uh... then
don't respond at all
uh...
and then we've got
the lines which are dark green
to match that green screen
management extender
and the actions there
so also how i switch to the is over
from one to the other
news click on
let states or click on our weather
uh... it's instance of iowa dash button so old spot that
ground to canadians
mccumber on a
there does land swap that out
that's that's what's
uh... sounds that anti-aids i could have been fun stuff since much of a graphic
an oil change its style over to tents
and it's using tent as the other one so i'm just changing the coloration here
switching to a graphics which of the symbols or the amounts over it doesn't
respond
uh... and that's it
there is there's no
no uh... to move the cursor on changing miles over the colors whatever color you
like
uh... you know we can set these whatever where do you want
but in this case i just had it
match at this
so that's that's all there was that
um... when i'll show you changing the color of
uh... and then once it's done contact them and pasted in place on the
dino quickly or
uh...
so lock everything down except for the states themselves
so there they are these are all clickable and they are all changed um...
using
p
filter
for a few
does adjusts the contrast in brightness in saturation small so if we wanted to
make these a different shades like
uh... may be read or something
there's a great shame looks upon the saturation on it
that's good
bcz right
notes to merge with conference
brightness downtown there's there's a nice little red color
on their of course you can mess about morin perfected but
all the states are now up to enhance and for use in the filter uh... whenever we
hang
render this house i would go to the example
uh... they all still react when you mouse over and click on them the soviet
brighter
and they still den and when they're clicked
now there's some slight changes and and these guys
uh... where it's not quite as brighter now but i would as the with the changing
the contrast so uh... just be aware of your twine and the maiden aunt uh...
makes them subtle adjustments
um... and if this isn't going to be something that you were changed the
colors are a lot you have any changes chasing the one you can go on and edit
the original graphic files tourism graphic symbols and the library
under
clips v three times
there
graphics and states you can go here and change the splinter under whatever you
like
on each one we got to get there helping out
altered the status changed their color once but
uh...
you know its flash it animation it's tedious cell
nothing out of the ordinary there
i try to make it is simple and as as and quick to to alter things as i could
but uh...
that's that's pretty much of it and then use exporter almaty uses for everyone
creature unseen journey time i a nation's we click on something
that's the uh... lou
loosened and gets bigger and a boxer's around it with more information or or a
nearer any anything you can imagine you have any steny ummm taxes crept into it
to uh...
to do these effects as well
prior try to make it as simple as possible about using action script and
there's a certain other people have access to a and map the wording things
in flash
uh... related to it
just wanted to throw one quick example and they're like so soak it with an idea
of
what you can do it but uh...
yeah that's it
that's that's everything