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/
Away 3D 4.0 Alpha relased
Exciting stuff! Away 3D now has GPU support of the Molehill APIs for the up-coming Flash 3D player upgrade!!! Finally proper 3D accelerated 3D hits the web!!! Bring it on! Further reading: http://away3d.com/away3d-4-0-alpha-release-broomstick
Jasper Goodall 3D Art
Playing around with Flash and a new 3D bump mapping algorithm which I decided to apply to some awesome Jasper Goodall works after seeing him speak at Semi-Permanent. Check it out: http://scottking.com.au/portfolio/jasp/
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…
Sony Playstation 3 Launch
Today Sony launched their new Playstation 3 web site which I was responisble for creating. I built this for some of the talented people over at Tequila, design by Craig Brooks, downloadable widget by Danny McGillick. This site presented a few unique challenges. First of all it was to feature a pseudo-3D transition for the…