Planning to start a thread of useful posts gathered from the community. Would probably try to do this as often as I can. Anyway, here’s some interesting stuff I found recently. Five3D for AS 3.0 (via Tink) Very interesting AS3 vector-based 3D Engine. The website’s design looks refreshing as well. Would probably spend more time [...]
Entries from April 25th, 2008
How To Create AS3 Components In Flash
April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · ActionScript, Flash Platform, Tutorials
Probably the last places I would have thought of stumbling onto great links to tutorials will be amazon.com, but who would have expected? Jeff Kamerer, an engineer on the Flash Authoring team, had written an extensive article on Adobe’s Developer Center, which focuses on how to make your own AS3 components with the Flash CS3 [...]
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Free MovieClip Transition Effects Component!
April 24th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Flash Platform, Freebies
Something exciting is going on now at WebDesignerWall.com. Simply enter a comment in "Free MCTE Component Giveaways", and you’ll receive a free copy of MCTE V3 (value $50)! Atop of that, if you’re one of three lucky commenters, you will be receiving the MCTE Collection Plus (value $200)! jumpeyecomponents.com had really did a great job [...]
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AS3 Tutorial: Moving Based On Mouse Location
April 22nd, 2008 · 34 Comments · ActionScript, Flash Platform, Tutorials
Objective Learn a simple way to detect location differences. Make something move using that difference. Files Required Tutorial Files Let’s Get Started! In its entirety, this is a very basic tutorial. However, I’ve planned for great things through the use of this technique, so getting through the basics is necessary. 1 2 3 4 5 [...]
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PV3D Render Error With TextFields
April 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments · PaperVision3D
While writing my previous tutorial, I noticed this rendering bug with PV3D when my movieclip, which is to be used as a MovieAssetMaterial, uses a static textfield in it. I have no idea exactly what causes it, but to workaround, you have to break apart the textfield into shapes. The above solution is however, only [...]
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Tutorial: Skin A PV3D Cube Using MovieAssetMaterial
April 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments · ActionScript, Flash Platform, PaperVision3D, Tutorials
Objective Learn about the properties that can be used in the generic object that you pass in to the MaterialsList constructor. Learn how to use a movieclip as a material through its linkage id using MovieAssetMaterial. Prerequisite Creating A PV3D Cube Files Required PV3D 2.0 Alpha: Great White Framework (learn how to get it) Tutorial [...]
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