September 2009

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Use of Flash Shared Object
09.28.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Flash Shared Object and volume slider
Most of the beginner Flash developers and designers, think about Flash Shared Object as something to sophisticated to use in simple small project.
Some time ago I was working on banner for internet radio's website. It was banner with streaming audio and volume slider.
Clients wish was that when the user changes [...]
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Interactive fluids animations in AS3. simply WOW!
09.23.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Recently I found this post by Eugene. It's very impressive piece of work, that simulates fluids-like behaviors. It's inspired by original version made in C++ and Processing. Nice one!
You can find source code for this here.
Here's video how it looks with multitouch surface:

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Flash CS5 sneak peak, preview.
09.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

• Integration with Flash Builder in both directions
• code samples (snippets) panel
• improved code editor (finally!), class completion, advanced code hints
• built-in Text Layout Framework
• and more.....

Check for more details here
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TweenLite + Math.random() = :)
09.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

TweenLite and TweenMax from GreenSock are well known tweening engines.
I use them in most of my projects now (previously I was using Fuse Kit but there's no AS3 version).
Here are examples of some fun with TweenLite.to and TweenLite.from random positions.
First it creates shape. It's just bunch of squares placed in coordinates written in an array.
Then [...]
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from today I'm on Flashden!
09.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

2 days ago I uploaded my first component to Flashden , it's accepted and live now !
It's my first one so nothing really sophisticated but it's robust video player with nice description tab.
features worth mentioning :
• fullscreen (standard for video players these days but this one nicely animates on resize).
• Html/CSS styled description [...]
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Free Textures
09.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I created these textures some time ago, when I was experimenting with screen printing. I found them sitting around on my computer unused. I'm sure they can be useful so I though I'd share. I hope you like them!
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Lunch time
09.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

New York .....

and London.....
Bone Appetit!
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RandoMe.
09.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is my old project. I used small cheap camera that I found on the street of north-east London (there's plenty of stuff laying around there ).
Flash is randomly loading video clips of each of 4 human body parts to create whole person in (often) strange situations.
Final result is pretty funny! Check [...]