Flash CS5 for Designers: Using TLF Text as a Button
Sep 3, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
It should come as no surprise that you can use TLF text as a button to kick off an event in your movie. For example, you could have a text block on the stage that talks about a visit to Times Square in New York, and when the user clicks the phrase Times Square, a photo appears on the stage. In this example, you are going to click some text, and a yellow star you will create on the stage starts spinning. The following is an exercise from Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers by Tom Green & Tiago Dias.
Tags: Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, basix, code, freebies, Silverlight, star, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, web design
Design and Develop a Fantastic Flash Shooting Gallery Game – Active Premium
Sep 2, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Plenty has been happening in the world of Tuts+ Premium lately, so let’s keep the ball rolling with another cracking tutorial exclusively available to Premium members . Here’s a brilliantly entertaining AS3 game tut, courtesy of Carlos Yanez. Take a look at (and play around with) the final result we will be working towards: This Premium Tutorial is Packed with Design and Development Tips Using the Flash Tools we’ll create good looking graphics that will be powered by several ActionScript 3 classes like MouseCursor, Tween Nano, Sprite, Timers and other Events. The user will be able to input a player’s name and destroy a predefined number of dartboards before the game ends.
Tags: code, Design, facebook, Flash, freebies, games, mobile, premium, tools-amp-tips, workflow
Open Mike: Brackets
Sep 1, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Allman or K&R? This is Open Mike, a series of discussion posts to throw the cat amongst the pigeons. These posts are all about you — we want to hear your opinions, ideas, and thoughts. To kick things off, let’s talk about brackets .
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, AIR, code, Flex, freebies, premium, Silverlight, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, web design
Flash CS5 for Designers: TLF and ActionScript + Win 1 of 3 Signed Copies!
Aug 30, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
A lot has changed between how text was handled in Flash CS4 and Flash CS5. We think now is a good time to pull up a stool, sit down, and review, in very broad terms, what one needs to know about TLF before “wiring up” an exercise or project using ActionScript. The following is an exercise from Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers by Tom Green & Tiago Dias. If you’re feeling lucky, enter the Activetuts+ competition to win one of 3 signed copies! (Of course, you can always purchase a copy ..) Introduction With the new TextLayoutFramework (TLF), text is found in these things called containers .
Tags: articles, basix, class, configuration, container, freebies, library, Silverlight, stage, Tutorials, web design
Create an Epic War Game in Flash: Part 1 – Active Premium
Aug 26, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
In this two-part Active Premium tutorial we’ll be building a top-down war game from scratch. Creating a game is definitely one of the most involved tasks in the world of programming and my mission here is to help Premium members make this process a little bit easier. We run a Premium membership system for $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to all other Premium content (Psd Premium, Net Premium etc.) and whilst logged in, your favorite Tuts+ sites are all completely ad-free ! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Our war game will implement many different concepts from building a background based on xml data to breaking colors into separate channels using bitwise operators. The game itself will not be like some MMORPG (it would probably take several volumes of a book to describe the process of complicated game creation).
Tags: actionscript, AIR, basix, facebook, Flash, Flex, freebies, games, premium, Tutorials
Silverlight and XAML
Aug 25, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
XAML is a key part of Silverlight development – it allows you to declaratively define your user interface and it makes it easy for tools such as Visual Studio and Expression Blend to share that UI definition. In this video we take a look at some of the key features of XAML that you’ll encounter whilst working with Silverlight and also a little around how XAML ‘works’ in your Silverlight applications. What’s Covered? Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s covered in this screencast: The alternative to XAML Anatomy of a XAML document Visual Studio design and code views Naming and accessing elements Element properties XML namespaces Custom types within XAML Resource dictionaries View Screencast Don’t like ads?
Tags: AIR, facebook, freebies, microsoft, premium, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, web design, workflow
New Higher Envato Marketplace Rates!
Aug 25, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
For four years the Envato Marketplaces have helped authors around the world earn an income selling their digital wares. Along the way we’ve grown from one marketplace to seven, with more on the way. We’ve gone from hundreds of members to hundreds of thousands . Items from our marketplaces have appeared in projects for companies big and small, all around the world.
Tags: actionscript, Design, freebies, games, mobile, Silverlight, Tutorials, Twitter, web design, workflow
Beginner’s Guide to Augmented Reality – Part 2
Aug 23, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Welcome to Part 2 of my Beginner’s Guide to Augmented Reality, I hope you finished off the first part of this tutorial, or at least downloaded and read the source files (otherwise you may get a bit confused with what’s going on). Quick Recap Last time we looked at setting up a simple AR environment, creating a cube, applying materials to the cube and the “hole in the wall” effect. Today we will be building on that knowledge and creating the final as shown in the demo. To create that final effect, we need to know how to render spheres, animate objects, play sound effects and finally, render 3d objects.
Tags: code, earth, Flash, Flex, freebies, sound, Source, Tutorials, tween, workflow
Free 3D Text Objects Rotator
Aug 20, 2010 Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Free 3D Text Objects navigation for your application, along with advanced camera controls, click&drag, perspective, depth, fading and much more! XML configuration file easy to setup. Features XML configuration file easy to setup Includes support for images, titles, descriptions and links Allows interconnections between any two points and it can be used as a 3D carousel, 360 view object rotate and any combination in between Easy to customize the individual segments color/thickness, fading, perspective and rotation speed Includes optional description box with highly customizable/adjustable scroll bar to display content after a menu item is pressed Click&Drag mouse support Download file from here License You are free to use this flash 3d text carousel files in any project personal / commercial as long as you not redistribute / resell the functionality provided with the downloaded product without the author’s written permission. You may modify its content in case you want to use the product for a custom project.
Tags: 3d-rotate, Actionscript 3.0, facebook, Flash, free-flash, free-flash-file, freebies, perspective, stumbleupon, Twitter, XML
Flash for Android: Flixel Frogger on Nexus One and HTC Evo
Aug 20, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
In this screencast I show off how Frogger, which I built using Flixel , runs on a Nexus One with Android 2.2 and a HTC EVO running 2.1. Both play the same but the EVO feels more responsive due to the better touch response and larger screen. Screencast: Frogger Don’t like ads? Download the screencast, or subscribe to Activetuts+ screencasts via iTunes! Don’t forget you can tart up your desktop and mobile devices with the Flash for Android Wallpaper !
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