Seb Lee-DelisleOK you can tell I’m fired up right now. I should be going to sleep but instead I’m blogging about a cool plasma effect I just programmed. Most of you won’t know that my programming career started on the Commodore Amiga. And my mentor was one of the leading demo coders, Jolyon Ralph. So, for […]
OK I admit it, Robert Hodgin got me thinking about Perlin noise. I thought it was just a nice swirly effect. Which of course it is. But it can be more than that! What if you have a particle and change its direction depending on the value of the noise? You have a nice smooth […]
[kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/introweb.swf” width=”445″ height=”340″ FVERSION=”9″ QUALITY=”high” /] All set for the Phlash5 gig tonight (see previous post), or at least as ready as we’ll ever be! By the way the venue has changed now to BB Kings – it’s next door to Howl at the Moon, by the way. I’m not sure who’s responsible for […]
[kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/intro.swf” width=”445″ height=”340″ FVERSION=”9″ QUALITY=”high” /] Bit of a last minute one this! But here are the source files for my AS3 particles session at FlashForward. As ever, please bring your laptops – this is an interactive session! Check out the submissions from last year’s session. [no longer available, sorry] One of the most […]
I’m just in Manhattan at the moment for a couple of business meetings, before I take the train tomorrow for FlashForward Boston. It’s all a bit of a mad rush but it’s looking like it’s going to be a superb conference, the speaker line-up is impressive, and I’m finding it hard to make decisions on […]
Just a quick post to show off one of the new effects that was in my recent FlashBelt session on particles. [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/sparkler.swf” width=”445″ height=”280″ FVERSION=”9″ /] I’m really pleased how this one came out, it’s a combination of a little spark particle and a smoke effect, although the smoke looks a little more like […]
Here are the source files for today’s presentation. Download, play with them and then email them to me. sebleedelisle-particles.zip
Wow, just been rewriting my “Particles for the non-scientist” session into AS3, and as we all would expect, there are major speed increases. Here’s a quick example, click for massive particle bursts… [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/particles06.swf” width=”445″ height=”280″ FVERSION=”9″ /] I’ll be presenting this work at FlashBelt next week, and I’ll post the code up shortly afterwards.
OK so the huge game is over and about to be published (link coming here soon). Now I’ve had a chance to catch my breath I’ve realised that I have loads of tech demos that never really made it online. So in order to make up for that I’m going be uploaded loads of little […]
Here’s another demo of the work we’ve been doing on a custom cacheAsBitmap utility, we’re calling superCacheAsBitmap. The circle in the middle of the demo is made up of 1000 transparent lines, so you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s very slow to render using traditional methods! Click Move Clip to get things started, and you’ll […]