Flash, I know it's vector software, doing animation/games.

More is as follows:

Flash is an interactive vector multimedia technology. Its predecessor is Futureplash, which is an early popular vector animation plug-in on the Internet. Later, because Macromedia acquired Future Splash, it was renamed as Flash2, and now it is the latest flash4. Now there are thousands of Flash websites on the Internet, such as the famous Macromedia ShockRave website, all of which use Shockwave Flash and Director. It can be said that Flash has gradually become the standard of interactive knowledge and a mainstream of future web pages. The following are the functions of Flash3 and 4:

The features of Flash3 can be summarized as follows:

■ The intelligent drawing tool Flash itself has extremely intelligent drawing function. More importantly, it can import graphics drawn by professional drawing tools, such as Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator, and produce the effects of rotation, stretching, erasing and tilting. It can also decompose the graphics into many individual elements for editing and change their color brightness. Because Flash provides a drawing tool with fidelity technology, the graphic edges will remain smooth after a series of processing.

■ The application of vector transparent effect Flash3 can create transparent graphics, and can arbitrarily change different transparent effects between layers, such as transparency, inclination, transparent color, etc.

■ The buttons and menus of Flash with animation effects are animated by wizard. In Flash3, you can create buttons, multi-level pop-up menus, check boxes and complex interactive crossword puzzles at will.

■ The deformation and gradual change of the shape of an object are very easy to produce the deformation and gradual change of the shape of an organism in Flash3, which is completely automatically generated by Flash, and there is no need to artificially insert a key frame between two objects.

■ Enhanced image support Flash3 can not only flip, stretch, erase, tilt and change the color brightness of imported images (jpg, gif), but also use a new lasso tool or magic wand to select areas with the same color in the image and create a mask); ; The image is decomposed into many individual elements for editing, and the properties of the image, such as smoothing effect and quality loss compression, are set.

■ Sound Insertion Flash3 supports simultaneous connection of sound files and sounds in WAV (Windows) and AIFF(Macintosh) formats. You can use part of the same main channel to produce rich sound effects without changing the file size.

■ Custom Font Flash can handle custom fonts and their colors, sizes, kerning, line spacing, indenting and other formats. In the web page created by Flash, you can add dazzling titles and dynamic characters, but the amount of data is very small, which is faster than the download speed of bitmap. Of course, in order to prevent the shortage of client fonts, you can also convert special fonts into bitmap graphics.

■ Analog transmission Flash3 provides a chart for setting animation playback mode. You can set your target modem speed here, for example, 28.8kb/s, and then conduct analog transmission, check whether it plays smoothly, find out the location where the interruption occurs in the reference chart, and make optimization. Finally, the animation can be played smoothly on the client.

■ Independent Flash3 can generate a good movie into an independent executable file (EXE file), which can still run on the platform without Flash player. Therefore, in addition to making web pages, it can also be applied to business demonstrations and electronic greeting cards.

■ The friendly interface Flash3 adds new functions such as inspector window, handle and acceleration lock, making the operation easier than before.

Macromedia released a new version of Flash production software Flash 4 on June 65438+6, 2006. The new functions of the software will include integrated support for high-fidelity MP3 streaming audio and commands for creating interactive websites. In addition, Flash 4 also contains an improved creative environment to meet the needs of creating high-efficiency bandwidth Flash websites.

■ Flash can create a vector-based website, which can display sound, pictures, animations and interactive content across platforms and browsers. MP3 streaming audio support in Flash 4 can help designers create network audio applications, such as long animations with narration and background music, while reducing the file size to adapt to low-bandwidth network transmission.

■ Flash 4' s new support for text input boxes allows developers to create web forms, applications and e-commerce titles. Now websites can use Flash technology to collect user data from web pages and send the information to the website server.

■ Flash can also control how the information input by users is displayed. Flash 4 supports draggable interface components, conditional logic and basic mathematical operations. For example, it can be used to create online shopping settlement applications.

The improved interface of Flash 4 authoring tool includes new monitoring panel, drawing tool and more visible layers. Its timetable and intelligent wizard can help users create animations. In addition, there is a release command to control the output formats supported by Flash, including multiple versions of HTML, compressed bitmaps and new Quicktime.

There must be downloads online, but it's not necessarily easy to find (go buy a pirated CD, it's only a few dollars)