I’ve just realised I’ve been wasting my life for the past 15 years… Though a regular user of 3D Studio MAX (I even taught it for 4 years), Maxscript has always been a closed book to me. Maybe it’s because it wasn’t there when I started using 3D Studio in DOS. Everytime I’ve looked at a […]
I’ve seen a lot of people looking for a way to publishing Flash 11 content from the CS5 and CS5.5 IDE, so here’s a quick guide… (I don’t have CS5.5 myself, or a Mac, but have set it up on a mates machine so I know it can be done, please bare with me!) 1. […]
To celebrate the newly unveiled Away3D website, and to showcase the power of Broomstick and Molehill compared to previous Flash players and Away3D frameworks, I wanted to share this little client demo. (Incubator player required). UPDATE: Flash 11 Beta is out on labs and the example has been modified to run under the new F11 […]
After seeing David Lenaerts excellent Broomstick example, I’ve been eager to find a workflow to bring motion capture data into Flash. It took a while to work out, not being familiar with the MD5 format at all, but it turned out those nice guys at Away3D had already done all the hard work. I was […]
A practical application of a wave formula, animating a Manta Ray. To keep the body steady while animating the “wings” the formula applies amplitude depending on distance from the centre, multiplied by a cosine to give a fairly smooth transition from centre to wing tip. The formula is still fairly simple and can definatly be […]
Wave Modifier DEMO Spurned on by the success of my first Away3D 4.0 Experiment and what with it being friday afternoon, I thought I’d try another one. After looking at the docs (I know, cheating really) I tried making a wave modifier. Considering the maths is all on the CPU it runs quite well. There […]
Now that the Flash player 11 alpha is in the wild, the Away3d team have released Broomstick, a GPU accelerated version, with the familiar feel of Away.Development with Molehill is not for the faint hearted, and accessing the alpha technology through an alpha framework is bound to cause you to start smoking again, but hey, […]
I’ve always been quick to criticise Adobe for their handling of Flash and the Flash community and so I feel it’s only fare to give them deserved kudos in light of recent developments. I’m mainly referring to the upcoming Molehill 3D API’s, but also their inroads into the mobile market. While we lowly developers will […]
When you’re creating online applications you often want to mimic the tools people are used to from the desktop. The classic marching ants selection marker is a good example and even easier than before, now that the lineBitmapStyle has been added to AS3. matrix.translate(0.5, 0); this.graphics.clear(); this.graphics.lineStyle(1); this.graphics.lineBitmapStyle(ants, matrix, true, false); this.graphics.drawRect(downX, downY, extentX, extentY); […]