Building a game in TAFE.

[lordkabab]

Hey, we're currently building a game in TAFE, in groups of four, and I need some general advice.
Our game is a basic Flash side-scroller shooter, but we're using 3D blender files for the character and weapons, I have some questions:

-Would it be best to juts to the models in 3D, and animate in flash, or get the anim sequences and just use flash to code?

-I need some good Action Script tutorials, I'm good with general scripts (I'm learning lua), so I basically need the how to's, and not the complete guides, I need tutorials like menu systems, with the ability to choose what sound track you have, and the control system.

Please help, thanks.

[Krushr`]

You can get basic flash 3D engines which might be able to help you out, I can't remember the name of the one I used though.

[Skorpion]

Is there a point of doing the files in 3D if you're doing a side scrolling shooter (which I assume would be 2D?). Thats a whole dimension you're wasting!

Regardless, I would animate it in the 3d program and just frame by frame it into a movie clip in flash

[Burty]

Why not make the ship able to move down a level and up a level? So you basically have 3 planes.

Might be something you could implement later after the assignment for fun. If I recall university group assignments like this you tend to have a bunch of cool grand ideas and about 4 weeks to implement them.