Flying Mullet
05-26-2005, 06:29 PM
Okay, so Rye's flash animation (http://www.eyesonff.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62612) inspired me to learn Flash.
I've checked out the web and there are plenty of tutorial out there, but I'm getting overwhelmed at the number of products to use for Flash development. For example, the Macromedia downloads page (http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/) has 1,001 product downloads, and I can't differentiate between them.
Does anyone have any suggestions as far as what toolkit would be a good starter toolkit? Seeing as I'm just starting I have no care to spend $800 on a toolkit and I don't want to use the $800 toolkit's 30 day free trial because if I like doing Flash development after 30 days I'm stuck without a toolkit. So are there trimmed down versions that run cheaper, like in the $20-$30 range?
I've checked out the web and there are plenty of tutorial out there, but I'm getting overwhelmed at the number of products to use for Flash development. For example, the Macromedia downloads page (http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/) has 1,001 product downloads, and I can't differentiate between them.
Does anyone have any suggestions as far as what toolkit would be a good starter toolkit? Seeing as I'm just starting I have no care to spend $800 on a toolkit and I don't want to use the $800 toolkit's 30 day free trial because if I like doing Flash development after 30 days I'm stuck without a toolkit. So are there trimmed down versions that run cheaper, like in the $20-$30 range?