15 result(s) found for the author: Will
DEC 3, 2007

Papervision3D

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Up until this year actual 3D in Flash has been nonexistent. If you wanted to achieve some sort of faux 3D effect you’d more than likely have to rely on importing an image sequence or vector animation from some third party application – so needless to say, I was really excited to learn about Papervision3D.

Papervision3D is an open source realtime 3D engine for Flash. Basically, it allows you to texture map and render a low polygon object, which you can then affect with Actionscript and any of the other resources in your Flash movie.

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NOV 5, 2007

Deep Linking in Flash

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For sometime now I’ve been trying to find a more elegant solution to deep linking within a full screen flash site and I think I’ve found the answer with Asual’s SWFAddress.

Basically, the SWFAddress records a history of all of your swf’s “pages” and (through Javascript and Flash 8’s External Interface functionality) enables your browser’s back, forward and reload buttons to affect your swf – while at the same time allowing your swf to affect the browser’s url and page title. This allows the user to have a much more intuitive navigational experience with your flash site.

Just think: users will have the ability to bookmark sections of your flash site and link back into them whenever they want, or use the browser’s back and forwards buttons to navigate through your swf. This is quite a step up from Robert Penner’s back button fix.

SEP 28, 2007

WiiCade Remote API

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Ever since I was a kid I’ve always been fascinated with video games so I was pretty excited when I stumbled upon the WiiCade Remote API.

Basically the API allows you to track the features of the Nintendo Wii Remote when displayed in the Internet Channel web browser. This means that you can make a Flash game that can be controlled by up to four Wii Remote’s depth, rotation, screen position and buttons.

AUG 6, 2007

Keen Keyboard Shortcuts

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Seeing as I've been using Adobe products almost everyday for the past ten years, I've come to appreciate a number of keyboard shortcuts that aren't generally known or used.

General

  • Tab – Hide/Show Tools
  • Apple, Alt, Semicolon – Lock/Unlock Guides
  • Alt, Left/Right Arrow – Adjusts Kerning of Selected Text
  • Alt, Up/Down Arrow – Adjusts Tracking of Selected Text

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APR 13, 2007

Pixel Tools in Flash

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It's kind of surprising that with every new version of Flash released a set of pixel based drawing tools hasn't been added to Flash's toolbox. It's a logical addition. Pixels are the unit of measure for the web; why not make a set of tools that conform to this standard?

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