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Colors on the Web: Brightness, Difference, and Accessibility
Views: 1 20 Aug 2008 01:27 pm
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I was doing some research a while back, trying to find a formula to compute the brightness of a color. I found the solution here. The document also gives a formula for computing the difference between two colors, and a heuristic for determining whether two colors have enough contrast to be readable on [...]
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Flix Engine Version 8.0.12.0 is Now Available
Views: 1 20 Aug 2008 12:58 pm
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For all you Flix Engine users, Flix Engine version 8.0.12.0 for Windows and Linux is now available. This release enables progressive download of 3GPP, 3G2, MOV and MP4; it also introduces the AAC and AAC Plus audio to the FLV muxer.
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Away3D Basics - The View and the Scene
Views: 1 20 Aug 2008 11:57 am
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When you look out through a window in your house, you only see what is visible from your point of view, not what is occluded by the walls. The viewable area is decided by the size and shape of the window, so you'll see a "cropped" view of what's outside. This is exactly how the View works in Away3D as well. It is the "window" that we view our 3D world through.
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Away3D Basics - A simple Away3D class explained
Views: 1 20 Aug 2008 11:57 am
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This tutorial is the first in a series about Away3D, a powerful real-time 3D engine for Flash or Flex. This tutorial explains a very simple Away3D class line by line so that those that still use Actionscript 2 or have a designer background will be able to understand what is going on in the rest of the tutorials.
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Flex SDK 3.1 and Flex Builder 3.0.1 update
Views: 1 20 Aug 2008 11:57 am
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This update was released a couple days ago, but we have not seen it mentioned. The Flex SDK and Flex Builder was just updated to support AIR 1.1, Flash Player 10 as well as numerous bug fixes. This update is probably worth downloading and installing for all Flex users.
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Free Version of FlippingBook: HTML Edition
Views: 14 19 Aug 2008 12:57 pm
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The guys over at Flipping Book have stepped up to the plate and provided a product that directly competes as possibly the best Flipping Book tool available. FlippingBook HTML Edition is a set of JavaScript and SWF files running on your HTML page.
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Unity (3D) Developer Magazine - Review
Views: 16 18 Aug 2008 08:10 pm
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Over the weekend I received a copy of the first issue of Unity Developer Magazine, thanks to Charles Hinshaw. I had high hopes for this magazine, largely because Unity has an incredibly vibrant community of developers and artists. I was not at all disappointed.
The magazine contains a variety of features, including an in depth look at a big budget Edutainment game “Wolfquest", incredible artwork created in Unity itself, an illustrated introduction to ve
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Firefox 3: Go Away, Location Bar
Views: 28 18 Aug 2008 07:07 am
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I've recently upgraded to Firefox 3 only to notice an ugly new security feature: in order to protect us all from nasty phishers the fine mozilla developers decided that it is for our all best if the location bar cannot be hidden anymore when a website opens up a new window via Javascript's window.open() method. Well, thank you very much guys for so much care - o
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ActionScript and ECMAScript 3.1/4 - Inter-op is the Key
Views: 42 15 Aug 2008 03:50 pm
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Like many other Flash devs I’ve been following the discussions surrounding the ECMAScript 4 decisions and the Harmony project quite closely. There are a few bloggers out there that appear to be stating that ActionScript will become divorced from the standards. To be honest only Adobe can decide that, but either way, that’s only half the story. In particular, it does not mean that ActionScript will not be able to inter-op
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TextField.text Gotcha: \\n becomes \\r
Views: 49 13 Aug 2008 08:32 am
By: moock
Here's a little TextField quirk: when you assign the string "\\n" (newline) to a TextField's text variable, ActionScript automatically converts it to a "\\r" character. For example, var t:TextField = new TextField() t.text = "Hello\\nworld"; trace(t.text.indexOf("\\r")); // 5 trace(t.text.indexOf("\\n")); // -1 So if you're hunting for a "\\n" you've added to a text field, you'll need to search for "\\r", not "\\n". The docs for TextField's text variable actually point...
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workaround for 127px font size limit
Views: 55 12 Aug 2008 08:05 am
By: moock
In ActionScript, text fields formatted via TextFormat, CSS, or HTML have an undocumented maximum font size of 127px. The limitation is based on historical requirements placed on Flash Player by the operating system. The limit also applies to dynamic and input text created in the Flash authoring tool, but not to static text. Fortunately, the 127 font-size limit can be overcome with an ugly little workaround: set the font size,...
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Tacori Male Microsite
Views: 68 10 Aug 2008 04:02 am
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here is a link to my latest work: http://gentlemensguide.tacori.com/
I did all the action scripting for this site. I used PureMVC, tweener, etc. I used Flex Builder (actionscript only project) and loaded asset swfs that where made in flash.
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Installing Away3D for Flash, Flex or Flashdevelop
Views: 76 08 Aug 2008 10:36 pm
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So you've decided to get started with 3D in Flash for the first time and don't know how to get started? This tutorial will help you set up Away3D for either Flash, Flex or Flashdevelop.
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Flash 3D Basics
Views: 79 08 Aug 2008 10:36 pm
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This article is for those new to 3D computer graphics. It will introduce you to the lingo used and will explain what is required to make 3D in Flash. If you don't know what a mesh, texture or shader is, this tutorial will prepare you for working with Flash 3D engines such as Papervision3D, Away3D and Sandy. This tutorial does not require programming knowledge as it only covers the basics of 3D on computers in general.
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Meta4orce - Papervision Site for the BBC
Views: 88 06 Aug 2008 09:08 am
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I just caught this site via the blog of Iain Lobb (head of interactive at Bloc Media) who commented on my last post. It’s an incredibly slick site developed using the Great White branch of Papervision3D. The site is (for) a TV and online cartoon series, providing a nice cross media experience.
The main things that stood out for me were the production quality of the games and the audio which is very high quality and just as importantly, very well integrated.
There
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fMAME - arcade emulator done in Flash
Views: 90 05 Aug 2008 09:21 pm
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This is just so sweet. About 2 years ago, we saw a C64 emulator. Today it's a full MAME arcade emulator done in Flash. Now you can play those classic games directly in your browser thanks to the power of Flash plugin. The selection of games are a little limited for now and sound is missing but the emulator plays really well for a first version!
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Daily Dose of Flash News for August 04,2008
Views: 108 04 Aug 2008 09:45 pm
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iSpring Free 3.5
Views: 97 04 Aug 2008 01:54 am
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iSpring Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects, embedded Flash and video clips.
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iSpring Pro 3.5
Views: 90 04 Aug 2008 01:54 am
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iSpring Pro helps any PowerPoint user to convert presentations to easily accessible and distributable Flash slideshows and get professional results with advanced tuning capabilities and smart players.
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Flash Video MX Std 5.0
Views: 97 04 Aug 2008 01:54 am
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Flash Video MX supports almost all types of source video files such as mpeg, avi, mpg, wmv, rm, rmvb, mov and so on, and can generate flash video output.
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