Seb Lee-DelisleApparently people “privy to private demonstrations of Creative Suite 4” have given their verdict over at AppleInsider. And they’re claiming it’s a “minor update”. Well I can’t talk about the other software, but Flash CS4 is a serious improvement from CS3. So I’m with Keith on this one. They only mention the new animation model […]
Robert Hodgin and Jeremy Thorp both told me I should give Processing a go last time I saw them. And last week I had the perfect excuse – Jamie Matthews presented a great session last week at FlashBrighton on how to get started. Jamie did a great job of explaining some of the philosophy behind […]
I’ll be putting together some more Papervision workshops in the UK at some point in the next six months, but if you can’t wait for that, Ralph’s just announced his latest workshop in Amsterdam for the 21st and 22nd October. His workshops are really good fun, it’s what helped me get into Papervision at the […]
Whenever anyone asks me to recommend a good book to learn ActionScript 3, I always tell them to run on over and buy a fresh copy of Keith Peters’ Making Things Move. In fact I was quite gutted when the first AS2 version came out; I’d spent the previous 2 years working out how to […]
Yes! The cat is indeed out of the bag with big announcements planned on September 23rd. And FlashBrighton will be celebrating in style with its very own launch party on the 24th September. Watch this space for more information.
I’m noticing a lot of links coming from Japan lately, they seem to be particularly taken with my Papervision reflections… But this one particularly caught my eye – this nice chap (or chapess) has made a pretty 3D butterfly, along with its reflection… nice! And even nicer, they’ve included source. Have you made something nice […]
Part two of my particle tutorial in Computer Arts is featured in issue 152, August 2008. Using the skeletons on the Plug-in Media website as an example, I take you through how to blow things up in Flash! [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2008/particlesskeletonswithtextfragged.swf” width=”480″ height=”300″ FVERSION=”9″ QUALITY=”high” /] Source files are included on the CD – let me […]
It’s long been a bug bear that you can’t dynamically change a cube’s materials, so I’ve just committed a simple update that has simply moved Tim Knip’s clever material swapping methods from the DAE object into the DisplayObject3D. So now we can call replaceMaterialsByName on any DisplayObject3D! So you can use it by calling : […]
We’re looking for an AS3 coder to come and work with us on a short term project here in sunny Brighton. It’s a great chance to get to know us all at Plug-in Media, and it could turn into a permanent job, if it all works out well. We’re building a flashy micro-site for a […]
I’m absolutely delighted to announce that for the second year running we have (not one but) two projects as FlashForward Award finalists this year! Our first finalist is our work with MLB.com (that’s Major League Baseball for those born under a rock or outside the USA 🙂 ). We developed a Papervision3D component for their […]