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. […]
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 […]
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); […]
A few days ago I recieved my new phone. With all the recent hype about CS5 and iPhone it may have escaped some flash developers attention that the HERO already ships with Flash player. Currently this only runs AS2, although video is running perfectly (YourTube, TED) in fullscreen, and the F10 player is on the […]
A friend of mine has been making 2D floorplan tools in Flash since MX.A couple of years ago I built a 3D option for him, based on the then open source Flux player(X3D). When MediaMachines turned into Vivaty, the javascript API broke and player was no longer open source, and that was the end of […]
The first test og Away3dLite looks promising.http://www.videometry.net/away3d/AwayTest.html(Click the screen to start) I fudged the BitmapMaterial so I could use a shader as input.At 30 fps there seems to be no performance hit at all. At higher framerates the shader does cause a dip compared to using a plain bitmap. The size of textures seems to […]
Normal mapping has now been added to Atomic. Normal maps provide a fast alternative to, for example phong shading and other lighting models, and at the same time enhances simple geometry.The normal filter adds less than 1Kb to the size of the engine, but adds a fast, smooth, directional lighting. Click the image to open […]