In part 5 we created a playing card. Now it’s time to make it a bit more realistic. You know when you play again and again with playing cards, they bend. We’ll learn how to bend our planes. To bend objects in Papervision3D we need a 3rd party library called AS3Dmod. AS3Dmod is a framework … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 6
I blogged about GameJacket about a year ago in the post Monetize your Flash game with GameJacket. I never tried, but it was the biggest MochiAds competitor Sadly, today I received this email: « Last month, GameJacket learned that the funding round it had engaged it had failed with the proposed venture capital investor withdrawing … The end of GameJacket?
WordPress 2.8 is available for download at the official site. All the changes are listed in the 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets entry, but I want to focus your attention on these features: * You can now browse themes directly from your control panel. I mean the themes contained in the theme directory, not … WordPress 2.8 released
This is the time to add textures to our plane from a movieclip. Since I am making a card game, I want to store all cards in a single movieclip and assign each frame to a different plane. At the moment I have only two frames, one with the front and one with the back … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 5
Understanding planes has never been so much fun, so here we go with the 4th part. This is full of new features, such as: * Making interactive objects * Giving objects a name * Changing object colors on the fly This is the same old script as seen in Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 4
Every AS3 programmer uses event listeners to allow objects to become active and listen for specific instructions, such as a mouse click or the beginning of a new frame. Now it’s time to see how can you create new events, but before entering into this script, let me say it’s not a “do it or … Understanding AS3 custom events
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Many early roguelikes featured ASCII graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environmental features. Computer roguelikes usually employ the majority of the keyboard to facilitate interaction with items and the environment. The … Understanding roguelike dungeons
This is the interesting story of Michael Edlavitch from Hooda Math, a 10,000 visitors/day successful niche Flash arcade site. If you are an arcade site owner, you can’t miss this: « Before Walmart moves into a small town they offer classes to the small business owners on how to keep their businesses a float. What … Case history: creating a successful niche Flash arcade site
In this 3rd part we’ll discover two interesting features: 1) How to add a bitmap texture to a plane 2) How to set the camera to make Papervision3D units match pixels Let’s start… the “units Vs pixels” issue can be a problem when we want a plane (or whatever) to have a precise size in … Papervision3D: understanding Plane object – part 3
