Archive for the 'Actionscript' Category
Here’s Flash Player 10
GPU compositing and surfacing. New drawing API. New text API. Simple 3d for accurate plane rotation. Custom effects with Hydra and AIF (now called Pixel Bender). New File Reference for local file reading. Support for larger bitmaps. New context menu goodies. Something for dynamic sound generation. Yes, Astro is now in public beta. Demos here. […]
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Posted on 15/May/2008 at 7:45 am | 1 Comment | Categories: Actionscript, AIF/Hydra, Flash
FIVe3D goes all the way
FIVe3D – the vector-based 3d rendering framework by Mathieu Badimon – has just received a significant update, bringing it to version 2.1. New features this version brings: Back Face Culling, Flat Shading, Z-sorting, Space Drawing functions, Bitmap3D class, Video3D class, Sprite2D Class, Letter Spacing, Text Width I’d be content with just z-sorting, but the number […]
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Posted on 12/May/2008 at 9:18 am | 1 Comment | Categories: Actionscript, FIVe3D
FIVe3D now available for AS3
FIVe3D, the vector-based 3d engine for Flash by Mathieu Badimon, has just been ported to Actionscript 3 and is available for download on the project page. Also important, Mathieu has made available the panel component used to create the Actionscript-based font data (describing the lines and curves of each font glyph for text drawing in […]
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Posted on 13/Apr/2008 at 9:09 pm | Comments Off on FIVe3D now available for AS3 | Categories: Actionscript
An initiative for more serious sound control with Actionscript
I had seen this before, but have to admit I ignored it at first (I had the impression it was just some random Adobe conference, based on the name): the Adobe, Make Some Noise initiative is a “campaign for enhancing Flash Audio”. Led by André Michelle, Joa Ebert and Kai-Philipp Schöllmann, they aim to convince […]
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Posted on 21/Mar/2008 at 6:22 pm | Comments Off on An initiative for more serious sound control with Actionscript | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Fnk, Misc
New gotoAndLearn website
The year of 2008 starts with a bang as Lee Brimelow releases version 2 of the gotoAndLearn website. There are plenty of Flash and Actionscript tutorial videos featured on the website, including video, sound, and 3d, and I’m quite pleasured to find one of them being about animating with Tweener. Thanks, Lee! (also, thanks to […]
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Posted on 2/Jan/2008 at 11:56 am | 2 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Typography
BulkLoader is released
Arthur Debert – lead developer at Gringo and also one of the contributors to Tweener – has just released his new ActionScript 3 loading class, BulkLoader, publicly. The class allows you to load data from files in an streamlined way, and provides a series of features – like maximum number of retries, cache bypass, and […]
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Posted on 27/Nov/2007 at 5:17 am | 2 Comments | Categories: Actionscript
Actionscript’s popularity in contrast to other languages
I’m a sucker for statistics, so it’s with delight that I point out that the Programming Language Popularity page has been updated, and it now includes Actionscript on the list of languages covered by its graphics. What’s not so delightful though is to see Actionscript isn’t exactly popular when compared to most other popular languages […]
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Posted on 9/Nov/2007 at 7:08 am | 8 Comments | Categories: Actionscript
Finally…
…it’s here. It sure took its time. The jump from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0 is a big one. Despite bigger syntactical and structural similarities, it’s a much wider gap than the one we had to go through from ActionScript 1 to ActionScript 2 because it can’t be done gradually – old code is not […]
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Posted on 6/Aug/2007 at 11:09 am | 5 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash
Many Papervision3D examples
How come I missed this? John Grden has published a lot of examples for Papervision3D on the Papervision3D blog. They’re not only pretty cool, but one of them uses Tweener to animate a target camera. I’ve always thought that learning by example is the best way to do it with Flash, and this new batch […]
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Posted on 11/Jul/2007 at 10:02 am | 2 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Flash, Papervision3D, Tweener
Papervision3D now public
Papervision3D – the popular group of actionscript classes for realtime 3d rendering in Flash – has moved to its new subversion server (hosted at Google Code) and is now “public”. Of course, it was possible to download Papervision3D previously by using the URL supplied when you joined their mailing list or mentioned on their wiki, […]
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