Create pets

Whirled pets are animated characters that wander rooms, change moods, and engage in simple interactions with players. Custom pets are easy to make with the right tools, and let you create a truly unique pet for yourself, or sell your creations to the eager masses. Follow the tutorials below for both step-by-step guides to the basics of pet creation and helpful techniques for more advanced creators.

Create!
If you want to try your hand at creating a pet, you can make them either in Adobe Flash CS3 (what artists tend to use) or in standalone ActionScript 3.0 (what engineers tend to use).

[[Image:Icon-Flash.png]] Adobe Flash CS3
Flash is the tool our art department uses to make pets. You can work from our pre-coded templates or create entire pets from scratch. Both Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4 work for making pets, but the tutorials on the wiki use CS3.

[[Image:Icon-Programming.png]] ActionScript 3.0
You can also create pets directly in AS3. Start out with our tutorials for setting up your programming environment and then browse through our pet examples on our SVN server.


 * Simple Tutorial
 * Advanced Techniques
 * Entity Communication
 * Talking Pet