Calm down everyone. Even though it could have been said nicer, Evilagram is right. If you plan on makeing a game in a program, you should know how to use it. You make a character with the paintbrush tool, square tool, etc... and click on the black mouse on the tool bar. Highlight your character and press F8, make sure movieclip is selected, then press ok. click on your movieclip and a blue box should surround it. press F9 and insert actionscript there.
if it's a side scroller:
make an empty movie clip and insert your animation in there.
add this to your code:
if its an RPGish... thingy game:
alright:
1. make your guy
2. inside your guy:
-insert a keyframe on frame 1 (right-click on frame one and click on insert keyframe)
-put your guy facing down in it. (put the plus sign by the character's feet)
3. insert a keyframe on frame 2:
-if you have a walking animation (recomended) put the first frame of it on this keyframe (feet at the + sign like frame one) and make it a movieclip.
4. inside THAT movieclip:
-IF IT'S A GIF IMAGE AS A WALKING IMAGE:
-click on you guy on frame 1
-delete him
-paste the gif image on frame one
-done
-IF IT'S A SERIES OF IMAGES NOT IN GIF FORM
-keep frame one
-paste the images as said by making new keyframes in that movieclip
*NOTE: if you want to fix your walking image, just move the keyframes in it to a different spot to make it quicker or shorter.
-done
5. do the same thing as Frame 2 as you would for frame 3, 4, & 5.
*NOTE: Frame 2 = walking left Frame 3 = walking right Frame 4 = walking up Frame 5 = walking down.
6. NOW still in that guy movieclip, insert a keyframe in frame 6
-put the guy standing left in it (FEET ON + SIGN!!!! I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH!!!!)
-done
7. Do that for frames 7 & 8
*NOTE: Frame 6 = standing LEFT Frame 7 = standing RIGHT Frame 8 = standing facing UP
***NOTE: Standing down has already been made in frame 1, it's not needed again.
8. put this code on all of the frames in this guy movieclip:
I already posted the RPGish thingy on a previous topic but its hard to find.
If I messed up, please tell me and I'll fix it.