How to Create a New Scene in Flash

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Flash scenes are like individual Flash movies strung together into a single movie. Scenes allow you to work with separate timelines without leaving your main document and without concatenating several different published SWFs; you can even navigate between scenes in your Flash movie by using ActionScripts that can either automatically move between scenes or move them based on user action. By default Flash starts off with one scene, but you can always add new ones.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

A working installation of Flash.

Step1

To add a new scene, first open the Scenes panel (Window->Scene on the menu, or PC shortcut Shift+F2).

Step2

You'll see your main scene listed in the window that appears. Look to the bottom right of the window for a button that looks like a black plus sign, marked "Add Scene."

Step3

Click the button. A new scene will appear in the scene list below your first scene. By default it will be sequentially named "Scene #," depending on the number of the scene before it.

Step4

To rename your new scene, double-click on the scene name and type in a new name.

Step5

To change the order in which your scenes play, click and drag scenes in the list to place them above or below each other. Unless you script your timeline to place pauses on timelines, your scenes will automatically play through in the order in which you arrange them.