Video: H5 Showreel
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 by Carsten SchneiderSome of it you might know already, nevertheless:
Archive for September, 2005
Flash: Comment your classes!
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 by ThomasNothing new, but always a good read:
How to Write Doc Comments (Syntax reference)
Javadoc-style comments in AS2 classes can be used to generate HTML files with the API specification of your project, by using tools like VisDoc, who also have a documentation on writing doc comments
Flash: Create background pattern in Flash 8
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 by LuisQuick example of how to create a tiled bitmap in Flash 8 using MovieClip.beginBitmapFill method instead of using duplicated movieclips.
SWF sample:
[flash]http://www.blog.lessrain.com/wp-content/upload/tilebackground2.swf,400,200[/flash]
Actionscript:
- import flash.display.BitmapData;
- var pattern:BitmapData = BitmapData.loadBitmap("img_105");
- function createTiles():Void {
- with (_level0) {
- beginBitmapFill(pattern);
- moveTo(0, 0);
- lineTo(Stage.width, 0);
- lineTo(Stage.width, Stage.height);
- lineTo(0, Stage.height);
- lineTo(0, 0);
- endFill();
- }
- }
- createTiles();
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Advert: Less Rain Summer Sale
Friday, September 23rd, 2005 by Carsten SchneiderNow that we have your attention, I think we can reveal the true motivation behind this blog and turn it into a commercially successful and viable operation by aggressively marketing Less Rain products.
First up, the Less Rain Super Centre, with our 'Say No To Bad Weather'-Campaign T-Shirts. Go to lessrain.co.uk and click on 'Less Mart'.
More of the same at the Vandal Squad Shop. Well, exactly the same, really, we just like repeating ourselves. Go to vandalsquad.com and click on 'gear'.
Lastly, some pixel fonts looking great in Flash. Check out Pony and Pony Wood at T26.com.
Flash: Image Gallery Scroll Interface
Friday, September 23rd, 2005 by Carsten SchneiderUpdated 
Works quite well as an interface, whish it would support the mouse wheel though on a Mac too:
Flash: About Cue points
Friday, September 23rd, 2005 by LuisUntil now you could use a third party tool such as Captionate (fantastic piece of software developed by Manitu Group) to embed cue points (time markers within the video) directly into Flash Video (FLV) and trigger events dynamically during playback.
Now the new Flash 8 Video Encoder enables you to embed more metadata, including cue points, making extremely easy to expand the accesibility capabilities of flash, such as subtitles for the Deaf & Hearing Impaired.
- Alpha Channel and Video Cue Points Example. (Aral Balkan)
- FLV Cue Points Trigger Another FLV. (Lee Bremelow)
- Cue points with Flash 8 Video Encoder and Flash Player 8. (Robert Reinhardt)
- Flash Video. (Macromedia Flash Developer Center)
- Flash Video FLVs and CuePoints in Flash 7 (Stephen McManus)
Software: ASV 5 Beta 4 Available!
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 by LuisLatest beta of ASV 5 executable (with full Flash 8 support).
Content with Style: It’s all about P3P
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 by Matthias Willerich
CwS had a long summer's sleep, and between servers going down and a general lack of content and lots of things to do, it wasn't particularly helpful that I picked a subject that is described only half-heartedly or way too technical to simply take on board whereever I'd do my research.
Anyway, it's there now, and it's about the Platform for Privacy Preferences, a way to persuade IE with higher privacy settings to accept cookies. Go to Content with Style and read all about it! Oh, and feel free to leave your comments there...
Flash: Video+ Reflection+Ripples+Surfing
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 by LuisNothing exceptionally new here, just testing the 'power' of the new flash 8 player putting together Video, masks and bitmap effects in the trailer of my favourite documentary (Riding Giants).
A contextual modification modification of the reflection example from Lee Bremelow.
Click the thumbnail to see the swf sample:
BTTD: Games roundup
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 by Carsten SchneiderNot playing much at the moment, but these look interesting:
I really enjoyed level design until I finally switched to Mac, but the FPS Creator seems to take this to a new level. Out tomorrow. And I don't have a PC.
Which is why I also won't play Rag Doll Kung-Fu.
After the board game a not so unlikely marriage, Doom RPG. IGN are quite enthusiastic, and it does sound like a good idea, given the limitations of the interface a mobile phone has to offer.
I bought a GameBoy SP only to play WarioWare and AdvanceWars. I didn't really like the GC iteration of the former, but I'm really looking forward to Advance Battalion.
Event (BTTD): Reclaim the Beach
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 by Carsten SchneiderThis Saturday, 24th, London short films from 10pm, party till 4pm . You won't want to stay longer as you will get wet feet. No bar this time, bring your own.
Reclaim the Beach, party on a short, sandy bit of beach in the middle of London (Festival Pier, South Bank).
Flash: Text format popup in Flash 8
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 by ThomasMaybe it's just me, but it took me 10 minutes to find the new button formerly known as "Format..." on the TextField property inspector in Flash MX 2004.
What used to be 
is now 
!
Hiding a whole popup behind a button that looks like a simple switch? With a symbol that sais "paragraph" or "special characters"?
Come on MM!
Fun for the whole family - Spot the popup button:
