Lassie Adventure Studio

jkries · newbie Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 8

I recently came across this site and I am trying to make a basic game with the Lassie Director software.

I want to create my own backgrounds, characters, and items. Can someone point me towards a tutorial to explain what format I should be saving my pictures in, where I should save them so Lassie can access them, and anything else relevant so I can get started?

Thanks for any help! Smile

NigeC · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

If you go to the download page there is documentation for Lassie director
http://lassie.gmacwill.com/lower.php?section=download&page=index

Its worth while downloading the talkie editable demo, to see how things work, its what i did when i first started

There is a tutorial, but its for Lassie AS, the general principles are the same, BUT there is interface differences and the way sprites and phases are handled are also different
http://www.nigecstudios.co.uk/tutorial/Lassie_AS_Tutorial.pdf
i only use JPG and Flash for anything with transparency

Welcome to the forums, and good luck with the game Smile

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bigmac · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject:

Thanks for fields that one, Nige. Yes, and welcome!
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dornad · newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Hi NigeC, I'm following your tutorial with Adobe Flash CS4 and Lassie AS 0.81. I have several questions:

- Is that tutorial still up-to-date with the latest LassieAS?
- When I try to link Flash to the generated .as file (as seen on p. 19 of your tutorial), CS4 complains that the _data.swf is not a valid file.

Has anyone seen something like this before? Do I have to use CS3 or another (older) version of Flash?

Thanks.

NigeC · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:04 am Post subject:

I think the original _data.fla's where published as player 7 as2, I have used CS3 before with no problems, I don't have CS4 tho..
I'll try again in CS3 and see if I have any problem Smile

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dornad · newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

don't worry NigeC, it works in CS3. However, none of the .fla in LassieAS can be opened in Flash CS4

kerrin · member Joined: 20 Jun 2009 Posts: 18

I hear the above link stopped working.

I have put the file on my server, at least for now.

http://www.jocoadv.com/files/Lassie_AS_Tutorial.pdf

NigeC · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

yes, I had a rethink on my site and still have setup a home for them yet, it may be changing again, so thanks Kerrin for hosting them Smile

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ronaldoisland · newbie Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

I am trying to create a game on Lassie AS, as part of a college project, but I'm having trouble making my character on Flash. Is it possible for someone to send me a .fla version of the character included in the Lassie demo, so I can see what is going wrong?
Thanks!

NigeC · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

currently the main Lassie site hasn't got the Patrick fla (well last time I looked it wasn't there) the character was originally built for Lassie Director so thats where you need to look when its re added.
the only fla I have is messed up, in CS3 and Shepherd format

If you download Shepherd Greg went into a lot of detail on creating the character, and its more or less the same or take the patrick movie clip out of shepherd's fla and add to to a Flash 8 fla?
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