#HOW TO CREATE AN ON SCREEN CROSSHAIR MOVIE#

This will then be attached to the current mouse cursor position.Ĭreate a light source via Entity -> Lights -> Light and rotate the Y axis by 90 degree.

#HOW TO CREATE AN ON SCREEN CROSSHAIR MOVIE#

The idea of getting a crosshair into the engine is to use a light source which projects a flash movie on the floor. Your Flash MovieClip is now ready to be used inside the engine! Attaching Crosshair to Mouse Position If the scene is selected and you hit Enter, you get a preview of the animation. Keep doing that until the crosshair has performed one cycle.

Select frame 25 and rotate the object by 90 degree. The crosshair is now ready to get animated. Select a frame between 1-100 and choose Create Motion Tween from the context menu. Select frame 100 from the Timeline and choose Insert Frame from the context menu.

Let's make the crosshair rotate by adding some keyframes to the flash scene. The following screenshot shows an example crosshair, already converted to a Symbol.īefore continuing please make sure your shape got also converted to a Symbol (mark the shapes and select Convert to Symbol. You can now use Flash as usual to create your scene. On the right Properties panel select Flash Player 8 as Target. If you already have a flash file you want to use as crosshair in-game you can skip this and the next chapter and continue where the flash file gets imported to the engine.įor creating a simple crosshair open up Adobe Flash and do the following:

How to create an on screen crosshair