Meet the Imageprocessing Library for Flash. It lets you manipulate images and synthesize textures in ActionScript3, most of it works in realtime and there are just too many filters to mention. Different kinds of blurs, bump mapping, encoding JPEG and PNG, curves as in Photoshop, etc. Truly a swiss army knife for your bitmap needs.
Check out the complete reference here and then procede to download!
Flaxus is a software developed by i2off.org and r3nder.net under the TOPLAP manifesto, to perform visual performance in real time.
The graphic piece is generated by code at the same moment of its execution, thus, the artistic experience comes closer to a performance event such as music or dancing.
Read more here.
See online demo here.
Powerflasher have published their release candidate for FDT v1.1.
The most visible changes are:
Here’s the list of all changes.
To install you need to got through the usual installation steps again, using a different URL. Note that this is a Test version. I’ve been using it since a week and so far haven’t encountered any problems.
Here are the installation instructions taken from their site with the test URL:
Another exciting news is that they are working on their next major release FDT 2.0 with proper refactoring! Apparently the upgrade prize will be reasonable:
There will be no detriment for all existing FDT-owners with the upgradeprice, so there is no need to wait with licensing.
It took me a few months to start using FDT and Eclipse in my projects only becuase evrytime I wanted to start using it I was very busy doing other stuff.
Well, last week finally I was introduced to FDT by my friend Thomas and I must admit that FDT is becoming the most indispensable tool in my working life improving workflow and productivity.
Some FDT references:
Wordpress plugin to simplify the process of inserting flash video inside a Wordpress post or page. The plugin is build around Jeroen Wijerings FLV Player
If you want to insert mp3 files inside a Wordpress post or page, you should take a look at WP-SingleMP3
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Robert Taylor, creator of FlashExtensions.com has set up a small Open Source library of resources regarding Flash and its capabilities such as Drag n’ Drop Selected Text , Detect Line Number and Position of TextField or a set of algorithms to display the right color of text for the right background.
Unfortunatelly Flash 8 doesn’t support bidirectional text, but there is a collection of free classes (Pedram Pourhossein And Farid Arzpeyma), that will bring RTL method to macromedia flash. These Classes were made specifically for Persian language but apparently they can be used for all RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew…).
Flash RTL via a simple hack? (non-rhetorical). G.Wigonik
Solution for RTL in Flash? hmm.. maybe, but not for me. oddhammer
Other RTL attemps (Hebrew MX). Quasimondo
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Following up our post Flash and Video (April 27th), and since most common video players dont support FLV, I would like to add a few more links to some tools to watch FLV files on your desktop:
Realated entries:
Today we have released this small Video Flash game.
One of the keys, technically speaking has been the use of Captionate, a Windows application that embeds two data types into FLV files: Markers, for simple cue points with optional labels and Captions, for captioning / subtitling optionally with multi language tracks and speakers.
Here there is a list of some tools and articles to make your life easier as Flash developer:
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