Is there a simple scene management/rendering 2D engine for Actionscript 3 there? All I need is simple engine, wich I don't have time to write on my own for. I googled and found pushbutton, but it seems to be too big for my needs. I need simple scene and rendering.
View 1 RepliesFlash is not in my toolset, but I am an old Director jock and have spent some hours dipping my head into the Flash manual. I suppose that makes me a promising beginner-level poster. I'm working in CS5.
I need to make a simple Flash-based sound player for a website for a newly-released novel (http://www.bearriverbooks.com/index.html). I want the user to click on what appears to be an icon (or image), which kicks open a simple controller and starts playing a sound file (a radio interview, which I will probably export using Flash's voice compression). Nothing fancy. Just want the visitor to hear the sound and be able to apply simple controls (stop/start/rewind/volume).
I can learn ActionScript, I suppose, since I used to dream in Lingo, but my life would be a lot simpler if I could just publish a controller without having to roll my own. I'd like to think there's a magic button somewhere that can do this, but I haven't found it yet.
I have plans for a 3D project but not sure which way to go.
View 5 RepliesI'm thinking about learning a flash 3d engine. I need some advice on which one to use. There's quite a few out there. Which is the best? I'm also considering whether there're a good bunch of tutorials on the web, that can make the learning easy.
View 9 RepliesMy new project consists in setting a CD containing a structured data sheet (CVS, XML or Excel) and a serach engine. The idea is to allow the user (even not connected) to make searches live on the CD. There will also be a up-to-date version of the data on internet so if the user is connected, the application will prioritary load the online data.I was thinking at using ACTIONSCRIPT and XML.My questions are:1- Is ActionScript + XML a good choice?2- Is it possible to think at PHP + XML (so how to embed PHP on a CD without a sever?)
View 1 RepliesI am in need for some 2D physics seen from "above and straight down". Basicly I can sum it up with a "throwing balls into walls" kinda physics.
There seem to be quite a few physic engines for as3 out there, but I wonder if anyone have anyone special to recommend regarding my particular need as well as performance of the engines.
I recently benchmarked the four most popular 3D engines (Papervision3D, Away3D, Sandy, and Alternativa3D). The latest versions of each. Default settings, no mip mapping or any advanced features turned on.My main reason for doing this was to see how my 3D engine compared, performance wise. But I thought I would post the benchmarks, as I'm sure some of you might find them interesting, or useful, if you use Flash 3D engines.First I'll explain the benchmark and why I did this particular test. It's 1000 texture mapped planes, 100 by 100 pixels, each comprising of 2 polygons. So that's 2000 polygons and 4000 vertices being rendered per frame.Now my reason for doing textured mapping is because the vast majority of people are going to use texture mapping in their 3D work, as opposed to wireframe or vector filled polygons, so obviously the texture mapping performance is important.And I decided to do 1000 small planes, rather than just one huge 2000 polygon plane because this test has a significantly larger amount of vertices than 1 big plane, thus being more of a test for the 3D transformations.Also being that there are 1000 planes, it tests how quickly the engines traverse the list of models, do the transformations, and add them to the renderer each frame. Again, this is more of a task than having just 1 model.Now as for the results, funnily enough, they are pretty much ranked in terms of popularity Papervision being the clear winner, then Away3D, then Sandy, then Alternativa.I get 19fps for Papervision, about 11fps for Away3D, 7.5fps for Sandy, and a shocking 2.5fps for Alternativa.It's given me a new found respect for Papervision. It has very respectable performance, much faster than the rest in terms of raw poly pushing power. I previously thought PV was overrated, and it's success mainly due to great marketing etc, but no. From the demos etc, I thought away3D would be faster, but actually PV is almost twice as fast.It's impressive that they've created a very easy to use, versatile and user friendly engine, with pretty good performance to boot. I think underrated PV before, because I'd seen fairly simple things like a 3D menu, or some 3D images run at like 10 frames a second and use 75% of the CPU. In hindsight, this was obviously just some horrible programming, by people who didn't know what they were doing.
I thought I would stick up for Alternativa though. It might lose badly in terms of raw polygon pushing, but it's a very advanced engine, and goes about things in a different way. The reason it can handle those big scenes in the demos on their site is because of some fairly advanced clipping and dynamic triangulation, minimising the amount of polys being rendered at any one time. Particularly the dynamic triangulation. Objects that are further away have their polygons reduced dramatically, then more polygons are added when viewing up close, particularly at an angle.Kind of surprised about Sandy. Having a skim through the classes, it seems pretty well written and fairly lightweight and streamlined. Papervision seems a bit bloated in comparison. But PV's code is clearly far more efficient.I'd also like to say this doesn't mean you shouldn't use Away3D, Sandy, or Alternativa. Obviously I explained A3D above, and I know Away 3D has a lot of features that people like, and things generally look quite good in Away3D.
just uploaded my first flash website..and I'm having difficulty working out how to get google to 'see' it.
I've registered the site with google and have a very specific phrase in the <title> tag of the html code but the more I investigate, the more complicated it seems..Can anyone point me towards a step by step tutorial or something to get my site in the top 10 results?
How the heck do you Kern in Flash CS5 while using the new TLF text engine?
There's no letter-spacing control and the keyboard shortcut doesn't work.
I'm not interested in auto-kerning. I'm looking to tighten up large text like headlines and logos and stuff.I'm starting to suspect it can't do it.
I cannot find any download link for the search SDK described in this URL.[url]...
View 1 RepliesIs there is a way to optimize flash for search engines??
View 4 RepliesWhat is the mp3 playing engine does flash player web plugin is using ?
View 1 RepliesWhere can I get working engine for Molehill 2D?I checked ND2D and M2D and none of them work on Flash Player 11.Not even the Demos.
View 2 Repliesmy virtual keyboard is up and running. I am on the last leg of this project and what I need is, I am assuming complicated. Senario... the user types the department, suite number, or name of a particular person, the typing ends up in an input text field, with an instance name of "dirsearch". then the user clicks the button "Enter" and in theory the input text field, searches a file, and retrieves information which will be displayed above the keyboard. Most likey a bio sheet of what ever the user typed. But I need it to be flexable on the spelling of what the user typed into the input text field.
View 0 RepliesHow to create a search engine in Flash. My website has an embedded swf top navigation in HTML.
how to create a search box in the swf top navigation. So when a user clicks on a "Search" button, it would direct him to a new page in my website, listing out the relevant URLs of my website.
I want to use a simple tween engine (mc_tween.as) with a custom Class of mine.
Basically, so when one Rolls over the MC instance, it tweens to the side.
I just cannot get my custom class to communicate with the tween class though! therefore it just doesn't work.
Is there a line of code to let the actionscript codes to access each other?
I would like to write a very simple 3d engine just to learn it. I have some knowledge about 3d in as3 and perspective concept but I would like to see some tutorial about where to start to build it.
View 3 Repliesnevermind... translate old tween engine?
View 1 Replieswell so far i have this [URL].. and there are some collision problems
the player is _root.loadplayer
the walls are _root.block
the player mc is _root.loadplayer.MC
i'm not sure how to fix this problem :s
but heres the AS code for you to look at
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I am going to make a test application that will present tests to students. I am thinking that there will be two parts to this project; a test "writer" and a test "reader" (the reader is what the student will see as the test). My question is, can I create an external file which is populated by the "writer" and also read by the "reader" into arrays at run time.
View 3 RepliesI'm building a small 3D engine for a game I'm working on. I've got my basics sorted: textured triangles with backface culling. However depth sorting is proving to be a difficult problem.I'm calculating the face Z by averaging out the 3 points that make up the triangular face. The longer faces sometimes overlap the smaller faces since they have a larger Z value and therefore rise up in the depth sorted display list.Is there a way I can use the area of the polygon to influence the depth sorting in any way? Or are there algorithms to accurately detect which triangle is above which triangle?
View 3 Repliesdeveloping Search Engine in flash cs3.I am going to develop a search engine in flash. My goal is to develop a search engine in flash which should work more or less like Google.
View 1 RepliesI use this search engine, but I try to make click able links. When I find somethink, then I can click on it. I wish to make something like that - I search something, then click on result ( what I find) and then opens poup up window with data from xml file. But I can't make it..
View 2 RepliesDeveloping Search Engine in flash cs3. I am going to develop a search engine in flash.
View 1 RepliesSome time ago i played this great flash game I want to create a simple level where you can walk around, just like in that game. But i was wondering what kindof physics engine or collission detection i would need if you want to walk over hills or objects where the persons reacts to
View 2 RepliesCan anyone recommend a good Steering Behavior engine? I like the engine explained in AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation, but it doesn't accommodate limiting rotational movement, so often the Vehicles flip around, or spin.
View 2 Repliesflash on a website affect how the site is indexed by the main search engines?
View 1 RepliesI do a catalog in flash (swf) and I need to put in an internal search engine to looking for the images by their part number. How can I do that?
View 1 RepliesWhat are people using to increase their natural listing or rankings in search engines, etc for their flash websites.
What methods or ways are people using to search Engine optimize their Flash websites. Are people building their Flash website a certain way for SEO?
DTD flash flex action script open source engine?I need some open source engine for creating some games like Desktop Tower Defense games
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