Long long ago, I created a 3d circular menu thingie you can see here. It wasn’t much long after, that Lee Brimelow came up with his 3d carousel tutorial. Well, to be honest, I’ve never read Mr. Brimelow’s tutorial, but still I vowed then and there that I’d never make another one these things again [...]
In my last post (about the OBO_BoxTransition), Senocular had mentioned in a comment that the demo app was throwing an error when double clicking. While he never did come back to say what the error was, he’s a pretty sharp cookie, so I figured there had to be something to it. So, I finally downloaded the Flash [...]
Playing with another transition effect made possible by the 3d capabilities of Flash Player 10, gave rise to the example below. The initial object seen is just a quickly thrown together MovieClip to demonstrate that interactive items can be transited as well as static images. After that first mc, though, all you’ll see is a [...]
Didn’t really know what else to call this one. I’m sure you’ve all seen those billboards, though, that periodically spin small sections of themselves around to reveal a whole ‘nother billboard beneath advertising still more crap you don’t need, can’t afford but have to have. I just love those things. Used to mesmerize me for [...]
One thing I’ve happened to notice all too painfully clearly over the last couple weeks is that, as more tools bring the web to our desktops (AIR, Google Apps, etc.), we, at a probably inversely proportionate rate, rely even more on the web. Let me paint a quick background picture to illustrate what the heck I’m [...]
Long ago and an ocean away, I made a nice little Yahtzee game in Flash that many folks (myself included) seemed to love. Unfortunately, “something” (I never did come around and track down exactly what that something was) broke the hiscore saving script around the same time Flash 8 appeared (yes, this was back late [...]
During my usual daily blog browse, I ran across this interesting contest by Ryan Stewart. The idea, or at least so it seemed to me, was to see if the new method of swf indexing being hammered out by Google and Adobe would be capable of making content loaded dynamically into swf files searchable. Now, [...]
For those of you who regularly use swfobject, expressInstall, and swffit (formerly “fitflash”) for your Flash websites/applications, I just developed a couple tools that will make you love me. The first is just a simple html template that can be used with Flash. Download the template here and extract the html file to your HTML directory (on [...]
After taking another look at this post, I came up with a way of making multiple windows that will all blur the same image. I have to admit, though, I’m not particularly fond nor proud of the way I did it. The trouble is this: a masked display object can only have a single mask [...]
Every Fourth of July, I like to sit down and reflect a little on the meaning of the holiday. You can keep your Christmases, and Thanksgivings – in my opinion, Independence Day is the most important of the American holidays. It’s not just a time to get a day off of work, consume mass quantities of [...]
I was checking out a website yesterday when it suddenly reminded me of a Pixelfumes experiment I remembered seeing many moons ago. After finding it with a quick Google search, just for kicks, I decided to play around and update the idea to AS3. I didn’t bother with the constant updating to accomadate video as that seemed [...]
Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. “I have a right, you have no right, we have a right.” Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but… there’s no such thing as rights. They’re imaginary. We made ‘em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother [...]
Just a little diversion to while away some time whilst stranded just off the coast of Nowheresville, Maine.
It’s sort of a 3d shell game/3 card monte (but completely fair). 3D courtesy of Papervision3d.
Have fun…
Check out the new AIR Cookbook online at the Adobe site here. My entry on implementing a “Recent Items” menu can be seen here, but don’t worry, there’s some good stuff there as well. Back underway (navy speak for going back to sea) tomorrow for a couple weeks. Not particularly looking forward to it, but [...]
Still playing with the new features of Flash Player 10. This example uses a halftone Pixel Bender filter created by Justin Everett-Church which you can check out here. It also uses the new additions to the FileReference api to upload and download files. To use, just click on “load image” and browse for an image [...]
When Flash CS3 first appeared, aside from those few provided, good looking UI components were few and far between. It seems that recently, though, you can’t swing a dead cat across cyberspace without hitting some new Flash component or other. In addition to the scripted ui package I have for offer here, there is now: Liquid Components, created [...]
