Here I am to continue the tutorial about Papervision3D and planes. I suggest to take a look at the first part if you are a new reader. This time I am going to explain the basic color material and a trick to make a plane have two materials, one per side. Before you continue reading, … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 2
When you are about to design a Flash application using dynamic content, such as an image gallery or a tile based game, XML is one of the best ways to handle external content because it’s very easy to create, understand, read, and update. AS3 now uses a system called ECMAScript for XML (E4X) that will … Understanding AS3 and XML
Sometimes you may need to determine if your Box2D object has fallen off the screen. This mostly happens in games, where you are going to build something and some pieces may fall down, but obviously you can extend the concept to any application you may write. There are two “obvious” ways to do it: 1) … Understanding how Box2D manages boundaries
I want to introduce you to a 3D Physics engine for AS3. Unlike engines like Box2D and the other ones listed in Flash physics engines galore, this engine adds the third dimension. JiglibFlash is a open source Actionscript 3D Physics Engine. It’s ported by muzerly from the c++ open source physics engine jiglib and uses … JiglibFlash 3D Physics engine for AS3
The Plane is the simplest object you can create with Papervision3D. But “simple” does not mean we don’t have a set of options to custom our planes. Look at this script, that is quite the same as the one published at Papervision3D for the absolute beginners: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import org.papervision3d.cameras.Camera3D; import … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object
You should all know Papervision3D, one of the best open source 3D engine for the Flash platform. The biggest problem with this library, in my opinion, is the lack of basics tutorials explaining how does it work. Just like what’s happening with Box2D, this is scaring a lot of developers because they just think it’s … Papervision3D for the absolute beginners
Do you want to apply color correction to images into your Flash movies on the fly? Then ColorMatrixFilter is the class you need. The ColorMatrixFilter class lets you apply a 4 x 5 matrix transformation on the RGBA color and alpha values of every pixel in the input image to produce a result with a … Understanding AS3 ColorMatrixFilter class
This post contains a script made combining Official Facebook Actionscript API released! with Understanding Flash button component. package { import flash.display.Sprite; import fl.controls.Button; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.text.TextField; import com.facebook.data.users.GetInfoData; import com.facebook.utils.FacebookSessionUtil; import com.facebook.data.users.FacebookUser; import com.facebook.data.users.GetInfoFieldValues; import com.facebook.commands.users.GetInfo; import com.facebook.net.FacebookCall; import com.facebook.events.FacebookEvent; import com.facebook.Facebook; public class as3facebook extends Sprite { var my_text:TextField = new TextField(); var … Official Facebook Actionscript API released – AS3 version
In this 6th part I included MochiBot and I replaced most of the buttons with the button component. This is the result And this is the source code to download. Next update will feature the complete “game” and the full tutorial about making a simple game. Simple but with all features needed by a game … Designing the structure of a Flash game – AS3 version – Part 6
When I am designing a Flash application or a game, I have to say I really hate the process of button creation. That’s why I am using, from now on, Flash built in button component. It’s fully skinnable, you can add it in a click and supports some interesting features such as some key controls: … Understanding Flash button component
On March 31 Facebook developers announced that Adobe and Facebook are working together to provide official support for building rich social applications in Flash. You can read the full Josh Elman’s announcement at this link. The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to … Official Facebook Actionscript API released!
This time I am going to show you how to add to your Flash Google Map the controls you are used to see in all maps, such as map type, zoom and overview. You will find, looking at this example and next ones, Google Maps can be customized in a wide range of ways. Read … How to use Google Maps API with Flash AS3 – part 2
