I did this simple piece while drudging through the basics of an interactive 3D scene in Papervision3D. I’m using a custom Tween class. You can stick it with Tweener or any other Tween class of your choice.
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Moving the camera…
My belated PV3D experiment…
My first post of 2008 and a long overdued one at that! I hope my code sucks less than last year, LOL!
It seems that I’ve only just started climbing onto the bandwagon for this newfangled 3D thingy. It’s mostly due to hectic work schedules (being the only developer, till recently, working on several projects concurrently), and long overdue holidays 
Anyway, this little experiment was done with Papervision3D, Adobe’s Flickr Library, PureMVC and not the least my custom LoadManager, AssetLoader classes. It was a nice learning experience to incorporate the PureMVC framework with the various libraries. Granted there’s bound to be some code smell, LOL!
Woot!
I got certified today with the Adobe Flash® Lite™ 2.0 Mobile Developer Exam. Yay!
*update Oct 1, 2007*
Adobe announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 3. Version comparison and Flash Lite 3 architecture should give you some insights into the new mobile flash player.
Loading classes, part 1
I thought I’d start by sharing some information on loading class, beginning with the ILoadable interface. An interface, for those of you not familiar with object oriented programming, can be thought of as a contract by which classes are implemented. An interface defines the methods which the implementing classes will have to implement.
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FlashDevelop 3.0.0 beta 3 is out!
My favourite AS2/3 IDE is at beta 3 now. woopie! Get it here.
I’m currently working on a few sets of framework and utility classes for AS3 microsites/applications development. They’re mainly the Config and LoadManager classes. I’m cleaning up the code and will post some of it up. Hopefully it’ll be useful to some of you. Stay tuned!
We have a moviestar!
The Flash community is abuzz with news today.
If you haven’t already know, Adobe announced the latest update for Adobe® Flash® Player 9 software, code-named Moviestar. The update includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. Wow, that’s really a mouthful of terms. For the techies, you can go to Tinic’s post about it.
The other thing is about the official beta 1 release of AIR-CS3 IDE update. We can now package AIR apps with the IDE.
Where’s MAX Singapore 2007?
My rant for the rest of this year: Where’s MAX 2007 for Singapore?! I’ve attended 2005 and 2006, and now… zilch. And the nearest one is in Japan!
SimpleButton
I’m trying to build up a little library of useful AS3 classes. For the time being, I’ll be working on the ui package. Going by a tip from senocular’s post at kirupa.com, I’ve created a simple button class. How useful will it be for you? You tell me.
*update*
Let me elaborate further the creation of this class. It’s created to dispatch the AS2 “onReleaseOutside” mouse event that’s lacking in AS3. Instead of having to implement the stage listener all the time, you now only have to add an event listener that listens to “releaseOutside”. Why would you need a “releaseOutside”? Take for instance a scrollbar. You rarely will be able to drag a scrollbar scrub without your mouse pointer leaving it. This is where “releaseOutside” comes into play. Without it, the scrub will still be moving when you release the mouse button.
Get it here.
Updated the class
Related links:
lessrain - AS3 Button Engin revisted
Singapore AIR
Mike Downey was down at Singapore’s Adobe office to give an overview of Adobe Integrated Runtime (formerly Apollo). The session clocked about two and a half hours and was pretty insightful, with Mike showing us several AIR applications.
An exciting event happening in the US from July is the AIR Bus Tour. The bus, a 2003 Prevost Le Mirage Entertainer, will tour the US from July 10 to September 29, with several AIR gurus and evangelists that will give talks about the new integrated runtime.
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Can’t breathe… need AIR…
That’s Adobe Integrated Runtime beta (formerly known as Apollo) for you. That’s not all, Adobe Labs also released Flex Builder 3 (moxie) beta and the Flash Player 9 update. I’m sure the Flash community is already abuzz with the releases, so I won’t dwell much into it.
Adobe is also beating the AIR drum by giving away some damn attractive prizes! More info here.
I’ll be adding AIR and Flex to my list of tools soon. These are some of the development tools that I use:
*update*
Tinic Uro has some insights into the new release of flash player. He’s an engineer at Adobe working on the flash player.
