http://pixelwelders.com/blog Flash + Flex + Game Dev + Grammar? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:20:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Usually I like to post glamorous stuff, like 3D swirly things and experiments. Occasionally, however, I feel the need to release a little code in the interest of helping a few people out. This code is a review of sorts, since I already posted a similar utility back ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/flashflex-integration-swflibrary-v15/ After a couple of months working on this project, I am ready to release my labor of love. Presenting: Tutorio.us! To explain what this is, and instead of writing something new, I'll just quote directly directly from the website: The Scenario So you want to learn Flash. Great! A noble endeavor. And ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/presenting-tutorious/ After a long Papervision-induced hiatus, I've come back to FIVe3D- mainly because I still think it's a great library. Since it's still relatively new, however, there's not a lot of example code out there. Thus, here's another chunk from your friends here at Pixelwelders. This class creates ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/actionscript-3/2008/five3d-custom-primitive-vectorcube-class/ I just spent the last three weeks a little bit out of the action, wandering Europe in a motorcoach. On said motorcoach, there were only two things to do: play with my laptop, and play poker with the other passengers. By the end of the trip, I ended ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/game-design/2008/pokervision3d/ I’ve been taking buses around Europe for a couple weeks now, and sometimes those trips get extremely long. Yesterday I took a bus from Venice to Seefeld (Austria), a trip that would have taken about five hours if not for the hurricane-like downpour they were having in Italy. ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/speed-tests-objects-vs-arrays-vs-dictionaries/ Sorry for the lack of updates, everyone: I'm currently in Switzerland enjoying the fondue (true story). However, I did stumble across something interesting during my last five-Franc Internet session. Although we've all heard for years that Google does index SWFs in some mysterious way, no one has really ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/flashosphere/2008/flash-google/ This is something simple enough that I hesitate to post it, but maybe someone else can benefit. Plus, I always try to have something new on Mondays. Anyway, this a technique I once used back in the dark ages of ActionScript development (meaning AS2). Last week, however, ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/as3-broadcaster-class/ The beauty of FIVe3D (other than its size, ease of use, and a few other things) is how easily extendable it is. For a previous experiment, I needed a way to draw an arc in 3D space. This isn't something that FIVe3D provides, and in fact it was ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/actionscript-3/2008/custom-shapes-in-five3d-the-arc/ This is something I've begun using recently, and I thought I would post about it to see if I can help anyone else who's been thinking about this. I've seen some other articles on this, but they've had some shortcomings that I think I have improved on. Of ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/best-practices/2008/runtime-libraries-in-as3/ Nothing revolutionary today, folks, on account of the ridiculous amount of time I spent today trying to get Flex 3 to compile Flash 10 SWFs. I had to use a combination of information from several sources, including the below: Flash 10 / Astro Installation Guides Adobe's official page This is ... http://pixelwelders.com/blog/flex/2008/setting-up-flash-player-10/