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Flash player 9 reaches 90%

Oh look, I just noticed that the new Flash player penetration rates for June 07 have been posted! Nice!

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Flash vs Silverlight

I’ve just arrived home from a rather busy couple of days in London. I was the guest of Microsoft at their Mix07 conference. And by guest, I mean that they called me up the day before to find out if I could give a one hour long presentation about my work. But I like that […]

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Flash Sparkler

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 […]

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FlashBelt Particle presentation – source files

Here are the source files for today’s presentation. Download, play with them and then email them to me. sebleedelisle-particles.zip

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Flash Particles – now 1000% extra free!

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.

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Components in Flash CS3

My good friend Chris Sperry has just written this amazing guide on FlashBrighton, all about the best way to approach creating components in Flash CS3. Definitely worth checking out.

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AS3 3D experiments

I had the very great pleasure on Thursday of meeting Carlos Ulloa Matesanz, ie Mr PaperVision3D! We have very similar backgrounds, with a mixture of technical and creative, and we both have a background in developing for the Amiga! I love what Carlos and the team have been doing with PaperVision, and, having studied the […]

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Code not working in MTASC?

Just spent a couple of days trying to work out why the same code base was working differently in two different swfs. The reason: one was compiled in Flash and one was compiled in MTASC. It was made all the more difficult to track down because the problem was occuring within some particularly complicated open […]

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3D video projections in Flash

Last one for a while, I promise! Here’s a quick demo of video projected onto a cube with light shading and alpha. Looking a bit old now that PaperVision in AS3 is out… but more about that coming soon! [Demo no longer available] If the video doesn’t show straight away, wait a while. Excellent video […]

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Cel-shaded Flash 3D

And continuing on my mission to upload all of my tech demos, here’s a little example of the cel-shading in our Flash 3D system. [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/swfcontainer.swf” width=”445″ height=”200″ FVERSION=”8″ BGCOLOR=”#ffffff” fvars=”swfFile=/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/3ddemo-cellshading04.swf ; frameSnapshot=1 ; swfScale=100 ; timeoutFrames=250″ /] [kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/swfcontainer.swf” width=”445″ height=”200″ FVERSION=”8″ BGCOLOR=”#ffffff” fvars=”swfFile=/wp-content/uploads/manual/2007/3ddemo-cellshading03.swf ; frameSnapshot=1 ; swfScale=100 ; timeoutFrames=250″ /] It could definitely […]