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When I get done with this book, there are a few things I really want to wrap my poor brain around.
1. Quaternions. Apparently good for rotating things in 3D, avoids gimbal lock, which is something else I only vaguely understand, but think I know it when I see it. Anyway, quaternions get into some [...]
Whenever anyone asks me to recommend a good book to learn ActionScript 3, I always tell them to run on over and buy a fresh copy of Keith Peters’ Making Things Move. In fact I was quite gutted when the first AS2 version came out; I’d spent the previous 2 years working out how to [...]
Do you remember the problem the asynchronous problem we had in the Flash Player 9 for accessing DisplayObjects' at a specific frame after a gotoAndStop call ?
In Flash Player 9, if you tried to target a DisplayObject right after calling a method like gotoAndStop, the reference you had was null :
// go to a specific [...]
Just made a big announcement over at 25lines.com that should generate some serious excitement about the contest!
http://www.25lines.com/?p=56
http://www.25lines.com/?page_id=24
This is very much just an early draft of what I’m thinking of for the rules, based a lot on what I remember from the first contest. I’m posting it now for feedback and suggestions. I’m turning off the comments on this post. Please put any comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback in the comments over there.
The post is about loading an external swf in a main swf file with some function on main timeline and calling those functions from loaded swf file.
Now the problem is when you try to compile the external swf file with any reference to the main timeline using parent.parent or loader.parent etc. it gives error in [...]
The post is about loading an external swf in a main swf file with some function on main timeline and calling those functions from loaded swf file.
Now the problem is when you try to compile the external swf file with any reference to the main timeline using parent.parent or loader.parent etc. it gives error in [...]
Comcaste are offering a unique series of training courses in London called Meet the Guru, covering ActionScript 3, Flex 3, and Adobe AIR.
The courses are:
Programming ActionScript 3 - Peter Elst (Oct 13-15)
Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3 - Developing Rich Internet Applications with the new Flex 3 SDKs - Marco Casario (Oct 20-23)
Developing desktop [...]
Quick hint if you use AS3 a lot, and use Netvibes.
1. Create a new tab in Netvibes.
2. Add a Web Page widget. Add Content -> Essential Widgets -> Web Page.
3. Configure the widget.
Title: AS3 (or whatever).
URL: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/
Height: 500 or whatever works for you.
4. Go to the tab’s settings and change number of columns to 1. [...]
Well, here I go again, starting a new project when I already have way too much to do, but sometimes I just can’t help myself. An idea gets into my head and until I let it have its way, it haunts me. This one has been jangling around in there for a few weeks now, [...]
So I've been embedding stuff in AS3 for like 10 years. (give or take a few years ) And I think I've pretty much always done it like:
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Actionscript:
[Embed(source="some.swf", symbol="someSymbol")]
private var SomeThing:Class;
And never had a problem with it.
On a project I'm starting though, I have a whole bunch of assets on the stage [...]
It is too late for Flash Player 10 but there is one feature I would love to see in the next version of the Flash Player. In Flash Player 10, we have a brand new enhanced drawing API which definitely make things easier when you want to draw things with ActionScript. Unfortunately this feature is [...]
I've been creating a lot of AS3 generated graphics over at Art From Code and have faced the problem of how to get the generated bitmaps (or vectors) out to files. For a lot of the files, they are quick experiments and I do a quick screenshot with Jing. For others, I've created AIR apps [...]
I’m noticing a lot of links coming from Japan lately, they seem to be particularly taken with my Papervision reflections…
But this one particularly caught my eye - this nice chap (or chapess) has made a pretty 3D butterfly, along with its reflection… nice!
And even nicer, they’ve included source.
Have you made something nice [...]
Bit late on this one, but just to let you know that the second part of my particle tutorial in Computer Arts is featured in the latest issue, August 2008.
Using the skeletons on the Plug-in Media website as an example, I take you through how to blow things up in Flash!
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://sebleedelisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/particlesskeletonswithtextfragged.swf” width=”480″ [...]
With the release of Acrobat 9 comes the new Acrobat.com website where you can upload and share documents online. One cool new feature is the ability to embed a PDF file on your website using the PDF Widget. It is basically a SWF movie that works like FlashPaper used to. Thanks to Lori DeFurio for [...]
Nike sports marketing came to AKQA San Francisco with a request: Build a site to promote the innovative new products they are cooking in the Nike labs. These products are kind of like what concept cars are to the automotive industry and Nike wanted to have a way to tell it’s customers more about the [...]
I was looking around for a simple example of using SWFAddress 2.1 with SWFObject 2.1 and Flash CS3 (ActionScript 3.0) and came across this blog post by Rachel. She has kindly put a simple demo online and made the source code available.
There are a few things that I have updated and am making available here [...]
It’s long been a bug bear that you can’t dynamically change a cube’s materials, so I’ve just committed a simple update that has simply moved Tim Knip’s clever material swapping methods from the DAE object into the DisplayObject3D. So now we can call replaceMaterialsByName on any DisplayObject3D!
So you can use it by calling :
cube.replaceMaterialByName(new ColorMaterial(0xff0000,1), [...]
This morning the folks over at AOL, and more specifically the AIM team, launched version 7 of AIM Express. And guess what, it is built using Flash! It really is a great experience and a quality example of the power of ActionScript 3.
What is most interesting to me though is not the client, but the [...]
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