Particle Smoke in AS3
Creating effects such as Smoke or Fire is always a bit of a trick, it’s something I’ve wanted to have a crack at for a long time and finally got the opportunity recently. Smokin: http://scottking.com.au/portfolio/worldkitchen/
iShares Isometric Game Banner
This is a Banner ad for iShares, it contains a small Isometric building block game. The aim is to create the 3D iShares logo out of the scattered building blocks. This game was built on top of an AS2 Isometric engine I developed to be lite weight for the purposes of serving through banner hosting…
Add some Sex to your Tweens with this new easing equation
I was having a beer with one of my very talented colleagues Robert Shearing (robshearing.com) and we got to talking about the make-up of the various easing equations for usage in Tween engines such as TweenLite. Most of these equations are still based on Robert Penner’s original 11 easing equations: Circ, Cubic, Elastic, Expo, Linear,…
ActionScript 3 / Flash: Simple FPS Counter Class with Average FPS, FPS Threshold, etc
I wanted a nice, simple, small FPS counter that displayed an Average FPS over a set number of frames, eg: 22fps average over 10 frames. I managed to find a basic class that I modified to include an average FPS parameter and a threshold parameter that turns the FPS Background to RED if the FPS…
Safari blocking popups from Flash – fix
I dont understand why Apple can make the best hardware in the world, and then proceed to create the worst software to put on it. Safari (like iTunes) is full of bugs, one of the most obivously yet most poorly documented is the problem that causes Safari to block pop-up windows from Flash even after…
Accessing ActionScript MouseWheel scroll Delta for all screen resolutions
While some of you may have known this already but the delta value (booth AS3 & AS1/2) depends on the Operating Systems’ scroll settings, namely the scroll speed which can be different from system to system. Some systems scroll 3 lines at a time, some 7, some scroll an entire page. So the best way…
Site Preview: Crust Pizza
A preview of the new Crust site featuring quite a cool Carousel I created from pre-rendered FLV video. I did a version of this Carousel in Papervision 3D but decided to run with a 3D pre-rendered version as the level of interactivity didnt require a full PV3D application. The Carousel uses 2 small FLVs, one…