Creating 3D Carousels Tutorial!

I just uploaded a new tutorial called Creating 3D Carousels that shows how to use the Math.sin() and Math.cos() function to build a slick looking 3D carousel. For some reason, people just love carousels. I’ll admit that I love them too. This is something that your client and boss will love, regardless of how useable it is :-) . See the finished product below and use your mouse to control the rotation.

This tutorial is over 30 minutes long and is around 50 megs so make sure that you free up enough browser cache. The tutorial can also be downloaded using the new link in the Now Playing panel. Check it out at http://www.gotoandlearn.com.

Hope you like it!
Lee


Commentary

  1. Terje says:

    Awesome, Lee!
    Your tutorials are like Christmas eve :)
    They’re even better than presants and thanks for the tip regarding download trouble.

    Have a nice day. It’s raining outside but I’m just as glad. I’m gonna spend time in front of my comupter making carousels :)

    T

  2. Simon says:

    Lee,

    You are becoming quite an authority on Flash.
    Your teaching abilities are superb and the level
    of intelligence you are able to bring to the subject
    is way above the rest.

    I am glad to be one of your students, and I’m sure
    I am speaking for many others.

    What can we do for you, Lee?
    You have created an awesome amount of good will.
    If you advertise something, I’ll do my best to buy it.

    Thanks again,
    Simon

  3. Lee Brimelow says:

    Thanks guys, I’m really glad you are enjoying them.

    Thanks for the kind words :-)
    Lee

  4. JP says:

    that looks great lee!, keep it up, you should also try to add blur to the ones on the back gradualy, so it gives a depth of field effect..

    jp

  5. SlowSnail says:

    Hey,
    one word: Sweet!

  6. xGrill says:

    hey lee, for me its not running the full movie, i tried downloading it and it stops half way. I even set my cache to 10000 mb :(

  7. Lee Brimelow says:

    Hmmm. I would double-check to make sure you actually have that much free space. But I did put a download button back in the Now Playing panel.

  8. Otto says:

    hey lee, the tutorial was awesome(as usual) but i do have one suggestion:

    there is someting called the 3D faux effect. it is very simple: suppose you are in your car, you look to your left you see trees… so whats so special about that? well if you notice, the closer trees rush by you so fast you barely see them, but the trees all the way in the back dont seem to be moving at all.

    so with the carousel you can do that, the higher the depth, the slower it moves.

    and for an added effect you can do what jp said:

    JP wrote:
    __________________________________________________________________
    that looks great lee!, keep it up, you should also try to add blur| to the ones on the back gradualy, so it gives a depth of field |
    effect.. |
    |
    jp |
    __________________________________________________________________|

  9. Sven says:

    Otto> what you say just can’t work with a carrousel… If you wanna slow down the back it has to stay in the back.. in a caroussel that would look surreal, but the blur effect is a cool idea.

    thnx a lot lee for your tutorials :) … on question though:

    How to make different movieclips in the carrousel? cause here it’s all the same but would it be easy to put different movieclips in the carrousels? I guess it’s not hat hard but i don’t really see how to do it.

    Tnx :)

  10. Lee Brimelow says:

    Yeah the blur effect looks pretty good. Guy Watson did that before Flash 8 was even released. It looks nice, but it isn’t very good for being able to see things clearly.

  11. zeke says:

    I am Taiwanese.
    I barely can find such a useful flash online tutorial, and I learn much from gotoAndLearn website.

  12. Paul M says:

    Lee, what would I do if I want to scale down the clips (even more) as they move to the back – yet keeping the clip in front at scale 100 and the height of the carousel the same as it is?

  13. HckySo says:

    Great tutorial Lee! I’m really looking foward to part two.

    Also I have a little off topic question that I’m sure you’ve already been asked a million times. But what program do you use/would you recommend to capture a video of the screen that like? I’ve been looking into making some photoshop and computer tutorials for my sister as she goes off to college and needs instruction without me being there.

  14. HckySo says:

    Great tutorial Lee! I’m really looking forward to part two.

    Also I have a little off topic question that I’m sure you’ve already been asked a million times. But what program do you use/would you recommend to capture a video of the screen that like? I’ve been looking into making some photoshop and computer tutorials for my sister as she goes off to college and needs instruction without me being there.

  15. Lee Brimelow says:

    The software I use is Camtasia Studio which is made by Techsmith. Best software hands down!

  16. jon says:

    great stuff, defenintly looking forward to part two.

  17. alex says:

    great stuff!
    one question: how can I decrease the xscale of the symbols at left and right?

  18. A. S. Tuff says:

    Hi, excellent tutorial except for a few points, since I am a flash Noob I was left puzzled at a point or two.
    I understand that the following line will alter the size of the item depending on its position
    var s = this._y /(centerY+radiusY);
    And then Lee says to experiment with it to alter the size to our taste. The problem is I don’t know what to insert (and where) to make them either smaller or a bit bigger.
    And second, how will I modify the “this” and “parent” part of the script to make it work even if this Carousel movieclip is just a Library item inside of a more complex movieclip, or if it is being loaded into another movieclip using “loadMovie“ (as I was told it could mess up things just leaving it as it is).
    Thank you.

  19. A. S. Tuff says:

    Nevermind!!!
    I think my two questions are answered in part 2 of the tutorial.
    If anyone is still reading this they can watch it at
    http://www.gotoandlearn.com/.

    But I’m stuck again :(
    My intent would be to just have a carousel spinning 2 movieclips (contained in the file’s library) at a constant speed, without any interaction.

    How do I “call” to the stage the 2 different movieclips using actionscript?
    As I don’t know how to correctly modify the following script to acomodate 2 different movieclips:

    var t = home.attachMovie(“ball”,”b”+i,i+1);
    t.angle = i * ((Math.PI*2)/numOfItems);
    t.onEnterFrame = mover;

    It all sounds so simple! (sigh) :(

  20. A. S. Tuff says:

    Well, this might shed some light to my previous problem
    http://www.gotoandlearn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18709&sid=c19488dded086c1b62965045db2dbe9e
    Let’s see if it does…

  21. Nul says:

    Bit confused, on 56k so I’d rather download this…

    …can’t find a ‘now playing panel’ to download it from though?

  22. Javier says:

    HI LEE!

    I need your help. How I can to link the icons. For example, i want to link the widget icon to widget.com, or limeware icon to limeware.com (is just a example).

    Thanks for your time.

    Javier
    Mexico!

  23. I took trigonometry but never in a million years would i have thought of using it like that, even if i did think of it, I wouldnt of been able to do so in so few lines. Thats some tight code! :)

  24. Hey Lee,

    This is simply awesome, I do have a slight problem though. I’m using images of different height, and I need them to align to buttom (now my images are aligned to top!) Is that possible? been all around the script, but can’t find it!?!

    Thanks in advance | Keep up the exellent work mate!

    *Thomas

  25. Carla says:

    Why this example or Carousel 3 when spin the menu use 100% CPU? and when it’s queit the CPU down to 10%?

    How can i solve this problem?

  26. ChromeD says:

    is it possible to hunt this one down to Flash 6 and with the possibility to use two buttons for steering instead of Mousemovement??ß

  27. dave says:

    Hey, firstly great tutorials, great explanation of whats going on but i have a question about the 2nd one. I dont want to use the xml option and wondered how i get my items i.e 1 to 4 to be called to the stage rather than the xml, they are simple icons with name etc attached.

  28. Erik says:

    I was wondering the same thing as ChromeD above me. How could I exchange the onMouseMove for something like buttons? And, also, maybe when I click an icon, it spins into view? I’ve been trying to get it to work, but am failing miserably.

    Thanks.

  29. Devyn says:

    I am working on retooling my site so it doesn’t stink, and I happened to come across this fantastic tutorial. I was wondering if there is a simple way to get the carousel to rotate around an object. I tried a few things and it didn’t work. I am starting to think it is not as simple as I though it would be. Anybody have any ideas?

  30. Artem says:

    Hi!!! nice tutorials

    but im STUCK!!!
    if anyone could help me, i finished the tutorial but “item” doesnt show up!!! its just a black screen… i set the linkage to actionscript and named it item (just like in tutorial) but it still wont show up! i checked everything ( and it all seems correct…

    someone help me plz

  31. Artem says:

    Maybe leave an email so that i could send the .fla and you could guide me… anyone? that would be so much help because i cant figuire this one out

  32. Tarun Ghosh says:

    I have 10 to 15 pictures. I want a rotation of these pictures in such a manner that at any time the front picture will be clear and the left and right side picture will be some kind of fading effect.This will be continous movement. I am new in flah have very little amount of knowledge. Can you set my action script for this .

    Thanking your very much.

  33. somsma says:

    I have very similar problems. I have 10 to 15 pictures. I want a rotation of these pictures in such a manner that at any time the front picture will be clear and the left and right side picture will be some kind of fading effect.This will be continous movement. I am new in flah have very little amount of knowledge. Can you set my action script for this .

    Thanking your very much.

    somsma

  34. TonyH says:

    I just want to thank you for posting these excellent tutorials – they’re fantastic. Thank you!*n (couldn’t be enough).

  35. Genius33 says:

    someone can convert this source into WPF ?
    I’m trying to do this but…..

  36. simon says:

    Thanks for the excellent demonstration.. Really helpe me learn how dynamic flash can be.

  37. Joseph says:

    Is there a way to load a graphic where the description text appears after clicking on the icon. I need the text to have one line bold and larger then the rest of the text but I am not sure how to do it. Can it be done from the xml file? If not I just wanted to create the text as a graphic for each and have it load as the icons do.

  38. Drew says:

    Hey Lee excellent tutorials on creating a 3d carouseld. Save me a few bucks as i was going to purchase a premade carousel. However, learning from your tutorials i seem to run into a problem with the reflection aspect of the carousel. It works only when there’s one item on the stage but if i increase the number of items the masking ceases to exist.I’ll appreciate anyone can help me solve this problem. I’ll be glad to send my fla file.

  39. Nibbles says:

    This is one great tutorial. But, instead of trying the carousel on flash, I made a version of it with javascript:
    http://users.evtek.fi/~mikkose/js_utils/carousel/

    – Mikko ;D

  40. Alam says:

    Hello Lee,

    That’s amazing!!!!.

    from where i can get the tutorials for creating the 3D Carousels in AS 3.0.

    Thanks
    Alam M.

  41. kirk tabalotny says:

    Hey Lee – can’t actually access any of the Flash Carousel tutorials (just get pointed to viewer’s comment postings). Is your tutorial archive down/links to the tut’s broken?
    Thanks mate,
    Kirk

  42. Deeb says:

    Good Tutorial!!! but I am having the same problem like Drew ( I am using Flash 8). The mask works fine with 1 item being displayed but when I change it to more than 1 item on stage somehow it makes the mask not work right. Also I don’t know how “r” popped into this line “t.r.inner.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);” Did I miss something in the video?? I am guessing r is ref which you put for your instance on the reflection in the first video clip but I don’t know how to fix that line to make it display the png file properly. I tried things like t.ref.inner.loadMovie… but still couldnt get anything to work. Would anyone be willing to send me their fla file if they got it working?

  43. Offe10 says:

    Your work is top notch! I am very new to flash and feverishly trying to learn it. I have one problem. I followed your tutorial step by step twice, but both time when I went to test the movie, I had a blank solid black screen. It was almost like it did not import my movie clip. My action script was good–just like yours. The linkage of the item was set to export with the action script, too. Please help! do you have any ideas why I cannot get this to work?

  44. Alex says:

    Hi Lee. Great job. i’m working on a project mixing your carousel and a job done by Jared Tarbell. But i’m still in trouble for mixing both perfectly , maybe for a detail but…Where can i post you these works.
    Thanks from France
    Alex

  45. adi says:

    Been reading but cant find out how to make three movie clip rotate….

  46. Brittany says:

    Lee, excellent work on the tutorials..but I am having a similiar problem as Offe10. I followed your steps and still get a blank screen after trying to get the XML file to import the movie clips….. Please help :)

  47. Janet says:

    I have a question regarding swapdepths
    this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale) + 100);

    when the focused item is in the exact center, both items on the left side & right side would have the same _xscale & depths, how to prevent this?

  48. Pete says:

    Hey Lee, Great tutorial. Im learning actionscripts and came across your work, its helping a lot.

    Anyway like a couple of others on here i am having an issue with the reflection but in the 2nd tutorial. All of the png files have loaded in correctly for the main carousel but they are not loading for the reflection, however i can still see the reflection mask on the preview. I have messed around with the ‘item’ but no such luck.

    Can you offer any suggestions please?

  49. Pete says:

    :-D Ok dont you hate that when you ask for help and 2 seconds later you fix it.

    In the first tutorial you referred to the reflection as ref in the instance but in the cecond tutorial you use the instance name of r in the code. Just thought id point that out to anyone who is having a similar issue. Cheers again for the tutorial.

    Just need to fiddle with the position of the reflection now…i am using weird icons which have their own perspective. Simply flipping the reflection vertical does not have desired effect unfortunately.

  50. Jonathan says:

    Hi Guys,

    Excellent tutorials really inspiring, did anyone get an answer to the question that has been asked a few times now, are there any actionscript 3.0 tutorials for the 3D Carousels. if not does someone have just the code, I have gone part way through tutorial one and get the error:

    Scene1, Layer ‘actions’,Frame1, Line4 1119:Acess of possibly undefined property width through a refrence with static type Class, var centerX:Number = Stage.width / 2

    Any help ir direction would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    Jonathan

  51. Ricardo says:

    Hi

    First of all, congrats Lee on your evangelist work and your Adobe connection.

    As for the carousel, I got it working but now I’m trying to perform something different on the release function and can’t seem to get it right.
    I wish that, when you click an MC in the carousel, it rotates just as far as the selected item stays in the front centered position; then the carousel stops and a text box appears.

    Any pointers would be highly appreciated.
    Thx in advance for any help

  52. Jay says:

    I’m trying to implement a carousel menu on my website but I need for the icons to spin around to the front when they have been click on. Can any one help with this? Thanks in advance

  53. Curt says:

    Awesome work! I have the same question as Jay (53) above. How would you change this so that the carousel does not move until you click on an item and then it brings that item to the front. any ideas anyone?

  54. Russell says:

    hi lee,

    your tutorial on carousels is really good, and i have learned a lot form it. I’m trying to create a carousel that is controlled by a click instead of with mouse movement, similar to the one at http://www.espnzone.com

    i’ve been trying to manipulate the speed using variables but nothing seems to work and theres no good tutorials online for this. can you help?

    cheers
    Russell

  55. tolly says:

    hi lee i seen ur tutorials , no words to explain but , before there were some download files for carousels i downloaded them but by incident i lost them wanted to download it again if u could help me or email (dondante_ws@hotmail.com) me them i would apriciate it
    thanks again

  56. jacob says:

    Do you have any source files for me to pick through I’m trying to troubleshoot?? Would really appreciate it

  57. Alfredo says:

    Hi Lee

    First of all,to thank you for this great carousel tutorial.

    I have a doubt about how to link the icons to keyframes instead the way you do it in your tutorial.

    Many thanks…

  58. easyd says:

    I am also looking for carousel like on espnzone.com, there is a similar menu on http://www.mercedes-benz.tv

    Is it possible that noone has the code for this?

    Thanks, easyd

  59. Shakeel says:

    Great work once again Lee!

  60. Cyrax Li says:

    Hey, Lee.

    First of all thank you for your tutorials. They’re really good:D.
    but i’ve got some problems. for example with the shadow of caroussel items.icon the item.ref isn’t showing or the tooltext also don’t work.

    Are you able to upload your fla file in order to download and correct mine. THX, Greetz

  61. mike says:

    Thanks for the tutorials they are great.I spent hours listening to and then following your tutorial for the carousel. THe scripts was exactly as yours is and the work when tested however when I tried to test the movie an error message cam up saying elements of the script were slowing the flash player and that mu machine would become unresponsive. Flash then locked up and I had to crash out of my PC. Any clues as to why this is happening.
    Cheers Mike

  62. Mike says:

    I have created a carousel.swf that works GREAT locally. But, when I upload it to the web, the XML does not work and no images get loaded/displayed.

    What am I doing wrong?

    TIA,

    Mike

  63. Kat says:

    Everything has turned out great except for one thing: I can’t seem to get the xml “content” to show up when the icon moves over to the side to display it. I’ve gone through the tutorial twice to make sure I did everything right and it still doesn’t work right. The text box is there because the cursor changes when I hover over it, but nothing is loading into it.

  64. Hari S.Babu says:

    Mr.Lee,
    It is very wonderfull.It will work as dynamic Menu content fie for so many Applications.

  65. Koniu says:

    Great work..respect! Greetings from Poland :)

  66. Alex says:

    Hey Lee, First off, awesome tutorials, always!
    Sooooo grateful….

    I’m trying to take your carousel,
    have its initial state be stopped,
    and add click-throw inertia,
    instead of always spinning motion,
    as well as previous and next buttons,
    for regular old photos,
    not even XML loaded…
    but I’m running into a lot of hurdles,
    any help or even general direction would be immensely appreciated!
    Sincerely,
    Alex

  67. B. McGee says:

    Hello,

    Thank you for this tutorial! I am brand new to flash, i have the program for years always get it with the suite but ever opened it. But i would like very much to have a 3D carousel. Is there like a “pre-video” i should watch to get any basics i’ll need before attempting this? Also i want to start out with about 45 different images and go up to about 99… All individual images i would like to be able to click them and have them go to a different “individual page” basically it will be 45 photos of people representing the 45 different individual galleries that are associated with them… can i accomplish this with the flash version of carousel and if so what is the pixel dimension you suggest maybe? or would you suggest doing it in Javascript?

    Thank you so much

  68. vs ict says:

    can some one give me a site to show how to do a carousel insted of a logo i wanted to do a album of photos if role over on it it enlarges.

  69. Joseph says:

    Hi.. What a great tutorial… Truly amazing..

    Is there away for it instead of bringing up a page with in flash but to go to a url. Dont have a clue on how to do it

  70. ron says:

    hi

    first of all thanks for your site as a whole and the videos especially, they are great and helping to learn.

    since in AS3 all the dysfunctional family issues of dealing with xml are over. i am trying to make this tutorial with AS3 and failing miserably:(

    can you make or someone explain how to make the conversion of this project from AS2 to AS3?

    best regards

    ron

  71. Derhenno says:

    Lee,

    i learned a lot using your tutorials. As for the carousel, my attempts to rewrite it to As 3.0 have failed miserably. People that are asking your help should know that Lee (and he’s absolutely right about this) has set up a commercial version of his carousel in AS 3.0. You’ve already helped us very well. Too bad we are still poorly in AS 3.0. Maybe some day.

    Keep up the good work mr Brimelow!! I take my hat of for you!

  72. Henry Court says:

    Hi,

    This is a great tutorial (many thanks) but how accessible is this carousel, for example, for people with screenreaders if it was used as a menu system on a website?

    Henry.

  73. Faruk says:

    Thats great. I was looking for one that actually zooms out as the mouse over. Here is the site http://www.emakina.com/work/clients-list.cfm? I saw where it happens.

    Does anyone know if there is a source available somewhere?

    Thank you

  74. ieWilk says:

    Does anyone know how to make the carousel rotate around a static object?
    Thus, the icons need to go in front and behind the stationary object.

    Appreciate your help.

  75. Felix says:

    Hi, at first thank you very much for your tutorials it’s a great to learn things like that. I do not have much expirience in ActionScript and there is one thing that disturbs me. When the mouse leaves the flashmovie the animation goes on with a very high speed. Is there a way to let the animation stand still or spins with 0.05 when the mouse leaves the movie?

  76. Ray says:

    hey,
    first off thanks for the tutorials theyre great! I have one issue i just cant seem to get fixed. was wondering if you could help. I want to show a diferent MC for each image that is clicked instead of the “content” text field. I cant for the life of me figure out how to do that.

    thanks,
    ray

  77. David says:

    I enjoyed the tutorial on the carousel when will you be doing the part two using buttons.I also want to use more the one image how do I accomplish that and as you scroll i want to be able to have a button function on each item to go to another page.

  78. Dio says:

    Hi Lee,

    Can u help me to convert this example using Papervision 2 a.k.a Great White? thx

    Dio

  79. Tired Flasher says:

    Cool tutorial, thanks :)

  80. mark says:

    Lee I would like to thank you for the tutorial. I have been having a hard time finding any help on creating image carousels and you just helped me out a great deal with the tutorial. Also great explanation on how the Math functions work in Action Script.

  81. yannis says:

    hi lee,

    i’ve got a question about the import of a carousel on my site.
    On my computer it run’s fine but when I upload it, it wont work correct.
    Instead of showing the photo’s it showes an X on all of the photo’s.

    What’s going wrong here?

    Thanks for the reply

    greats yannis

  82. Mike says:

    I didn’t know where to go to ask this question, i’m hoping there are some pros who can help me out.
    Does anyone know a way of linking the icons to keyframes within my main movieclip?

  83. Walter says:

    At first, thanks a lot for this site. People learn a lot.

    Well, i’m not a programer :( . I’d like to know how can i hiperlinking the icons, for example to another website or another frame.

    Thanks a lot

  84. Luis says:

    to go to a frame
    gotoAndPlay(“number of the frame” or “the label”);

    for website
    getURL(“url”,_blank);

  85. Catalin says:

    Maaan this carrousel is rotating fast:(
    Noone noticed that?
    It’s too sensitive… i wish it were more gentle:”>
    Any ideas on how to slow it down?

    C

  86. John-Lee says:

    hi there, this tut is awesome, i really learnt something new.

    i was just wondering, i am very new to flash and actionscript.

    in this carousel, say ive got 10 differant items (images), how do
    i put this together? ive made my 10 dif images, named them all from item, item2, item3 etc….

    Please can someone help me!!!

  87. Freddy says:

    Hi All,
    I like to know what i have to do to get the same effect in a static
    carousel.
    My plan is make a Static carousel with “whatever number” of movieclip,
    and make any movieclip put in front when clicking over the same and it
    follows the elipse’s road to be in front, and clicking it again in front
    position, it calls an outer SWF

  88. unknown says:

    Thanks for the amazing tutorials. You truely are a master of flash. I was wondering if you could put up some tutorials on adobe photoshop.

  89. Grace says:

    Hi!

    I just started learning flash and your tutorials are really helpful to me.

    I would like to use the carousel as a main page for a project that I am creating. Instead of displaying information regarding the clicked icon, i would like it to navigate to another section of my flash project. I want the icons to do different tasks like some would play a video and others to display another menu.

    I tried creating a new scene and tried using gotoandplay()to navigate to that scene upon pressing a button. However the original carousel is ruined once I do this.

    I thank you a lot for any advice and help that you may want to give.

    More power!

    Grace

  90. charles says:

    hi…
    I like your carousel but i have few doubts to customise it…
    if i have 4 images and each images having links or enlarge on click..
    how to make it….

  91. Nathan says:

    Hi,

    I have watched all 3 tutorials this morning and they are great. I am now trying to customise the file slightly to use as a proof of concept with my boss.

    I have only 5 icons and thought a simple change to the XML would see me right. However having changed the XML to use my text and my png files the movie just plays a black screen.

    I’m now lost as to what caused this and have no idea how to fix it. Any help would be brilliant.

  92. Nathan says:

    Ok, scratch my last post – this was just sloppy editing of xml, now I feel dumb.

    Thanks again for great work

  93. Chris says:

    Great tut Lee, looked all over the internet to find something like this for my clients website.

    One query though, is it possible to have an animated Gif file for when the text is displayed or will that affect the images within the carousel too?

  94. vishminna says:

    hi dere,
    i checked ur three 3D Carousels tutorial…its absolutely nice
    i have only one question which is,
    in ur 3D Carousel u jst create when the user click the object
    its zoom in and appearing the text..

    here is my question

    i jst want to do like this

    when the user click the object i want it to goto
    scene 2, and when he click another one its goes to scene 3
    bla,bla……….

    actually I’m doing my training.
    my company need one project from me.
    so this 3D Carousels prat of my project and want to do like
    as i mention in the earlier….

    so if u be kind and give me some solution.
    plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  95. vishminna says:

    hi dere,
    i checked ur three 3D Carousels tutorial…its absolutely nice
    i have only one question which is,
    in ur 3D Carousel u jst create when the user click the object
    its zoom in and appearing the text..

    here is my question

    i jst want to do like this

    when the user click the object i want it to goto
    scene 2, and when he click another one its goes to scene 3
    bla,bla……….

    actually I’m doing my training.
    my company need one project from me.
    so this 3D Carousels prat of my project and want to do like
    as i mention in the earlier….

    so if u be kind and give me some solution.
    plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    here is my e-mail address

    vishminna@gmail.com

  96. Chris says:

    Managed to slow down the carousel when mouse leaves the side of the flash movie.

    to do this you need to decrease the frame rate, i find 8fps works well but any slower then the images become distorted.

  97. sangati says:

    hi,
    The example is great!!
    The above carousal effect is showing that it is continuously rotating.
    Can you tell me that how to achieve the selected movie clip come on front and stop the animation, and after some delay(say 10 second) it will start rotating again!

    Thanks in Advance

  98. rajesh says:

    well I used your this thing, and I am very thankfull to you but please can you tell me how can give a link to these bolls I don’t know how and where I have to code that to put that movie into the another frame

  99. vishminna says:

    plz could any one tell me how to link this Carousels objects
    to next scene or to websites…………….

    plz guys help me….

  100. Peter says:

    I have this 3d carousel in my flash project but I have a problem when I go to another frame the carousel don´t hide. Can someone help me.
    Ansver me on: peroteam@siol.net.Thanx

  101. Amy says:

    Hi there,
    again brill tutorial. However, like some others I am trying to add different content to each logo when clicked on, i am creating a portfolio site and want it to look similar to this

    http://www.flashtemplates.com/view-template-2356.html.

    is there a way of doing this??
    Really appreciate any help!

    thanks very much

    Amy

  102. Hendrik says:

    Hi,

    I have done all tutorials up until the 3rd one, everything works 100%. But now I would like to add images with the content that gets loaded per button. Where do I start?

    As we have got the content tag within the xml file but if I want to load a different image per page how do I go about doing that?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  103. Hendrik says:

    Amy,

    How did you load the pages like that, I would love to do something like that myself.

  104. Jeremey says:

    I’m with peter, I have the Carousel on frame 1831, but when I want to go to another frame, I can’t figure out how to clear the carousel with actionscript.

  105. melanie says:

    you are my new hero.
    probably the best flash tutorial i have ever used.
    thank you so much!

  106. shi says:

    dear Lee taaaaaaaanx aloooot :)
    u solve my problem that challenged me for hours in these days :P

  107. Melissa says:

    In reference to Lee’s part 1, how can we ad multiple images to the carousel without using XML? Is there a way to set this up in the actionscript and library??? Please help me asap! I am creating ads for Google and they do no allow calling external servers for additional functionality.

  108. VenDee says:

    Hi Lee & fellow flash fans,
    I have made my carousel using your code & my own icons then edited the code slightly to fit the size of my icons. When I publish the movie & i click the SWF file it works perfect, but i can’t get it loaded on my site i’m building using DW CS4 (i also use F CS4 if it makes a difference)when i load it up into DW i just get the background color. whats going on?

    I’m new to this stuff any help is much appreciated!!

  109. rkp says:

    This is great but how to create an amazon like caroseul.

  110. Taj says:

    Hi Lee,
    How can i add a link with the image on carousel? please help me about this matter

  111. Kristi says:

    Lee,

    I really enjoyed your carousel tutorials. Actually, I complete all 3. With that said, I am trying to put a logo in the center of the carousel, and I’m having a lot of trouble doing so. Instead of the logo lying in the center of the carousel, it seems to be placed behind it. Please HELP!!!

    Thank You! :-)

  112. DALTON MARTINS says:

    I LIKE YOUR STYLE, IM AN INTERNSHIP STUDENT NOW IN GRAPHIC DESIGN, AND THIS CONCEPT OF YOURS IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL, I CAN SAY.
    WOULD YOU PLS, I AM KINDLY REQUESTING FOR THE CODE IF IT IS POSSIBLE, I AM DESIGNING AN INTERIOR DESIGN WEBSITE, AND THIS CONCEPT OF YOURS REALLY CHANGES MY IDEAS.
    PLSSSSSSSSSSSS…………..

  113. Seraphim says:

    This is a GOD-SEND!!! I am a young game production student that has been re-inspired and taken by awe by the wonders of today’s technology and creativity. Thank you very much for this tutorial. :-D

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