Category Archives: ActionScript

Points on a Sphere (PV3D)

Written by David Ehlers on April 29, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Handy snippet from massivecube for distributing exact amount of points on the surface of a sphere. http://blog.massivecube.com/?p=9

Also posted in Papervision 3D | Tagged 3d, ActionScript, pv3d

Tweener

Written by David Ehlers on April 17, 2008 — Leave a Comment

My favorite tweener engine for Flash – in both AS2 and 3. Simple, clean and fast. Docs are here: http://hosted.zeh.com.br/tweener/docs/en-us/

Also posted in api | Tagged ActionScript, Caurina, Tweener

Wii Flash

Written by David Ehlers on April 15, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Combine the Wii Controler and Flash by using the wiiFlash api this great work by Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert The WiiFlash project is divided into two parts: WiiFlash Server (C++ or .NET server that handles Wiimote communication) WiiFlash ActionScript API (SWC component) Check it out: http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/

Also posted in api | Tagged api, flash, server, wii

Flare Visualization Toolkit

Written by David Ehlers on April 6, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in [...]

Also posted in Visualization, api | Tagged ActionScript, api, flash, Visualization

Full Screen Flash

Written by David Ehlers on April 6, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Nice tutorial of full screen flash setup here over at gotoandlearn.

Tagged ActionScript, flash, html

Physics in Flash

Written by David Ehlers on March 30, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Physics engine for flash in 2D – Box2DFlashAS3 is an open source port of Erin Catto’s powerful c++ physics library.

Tagged ActionScript, Open Source, physics

Papervision 3d Daily Blog

Written by David Ehlers on March 15, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Papervision3d Daily is the blog where you come to see the latest news about PV3d, mostly we’ll focus on websites and demos. But we also aim to make the announcements for the community. But if you have code related issues, or are just looking for good tutorials, not just on Papervision3d but on flash/flex in [...]

Also posted in 3d | Tagged 3d, ActionScript

Quick Intro to Actionscript 3.0

Written by David Ehlers on February 11, 2008 — Leave a Comment

A nice overview of ActionScript 3.0 over at Senocular “With Flash CS3 comes support for ActionScript 3.0 – the newest, standards-based programming language for Adobe Flash (SWF) movies and applications. More so than in the past, you may find it difficult to get started with ActionScript 3.0 when compared to older versions of ActionScript. The [...]

Tagged ActionScript

Colin Moock on ActionScript 3.0 – Is it harder?

Written by David Ehlers on February 9, 2008 — Leave a Comment

http://www.insideria.com/2008/01/actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or.html Colin Moock’s latest article for O’Reilly examines the difficulty of learning and using ActionScript 3.0, compared with ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 1.0.Executive summary: I argue that ActionScript 3.0 itself is not harder to learn or use than previous versions, but that there are some important issues in the Flash authoring tool that make ActionScript [...]