quicky post ... new book/ new job/ new house ..

So coming months are going to be some hectich months for me, just signed for a job as flash developer at the media company Qi. They do great work for heineken, philips, amstel, etc, etc ..

Also bought a new place in Amsterdam, and both start 1 februari.. yeehaaa.. ok further more books I need reading before starting see below


the flex cookbook.. online a simple Problem/Solution/Explanation format
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2

books AS3

Essential Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns
Essential Actionscript 3.0: Rough Cuts Version
Actionscript 3.0 Pocket Reference
Programming Flex 2: Rough Cuts Version
The Complete Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 With Flash X and Flex 2
Professional Flex 2
Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex?

Real live user interaction, physics engines for flash ..

Well just to add some more really interesting developments for Flash and gaming/ 3D environments.. the physics engine.. let objects react to each other like in the real world.

Even for better user experience we can use these kinds of engine for snap to grid functionality, more elastic dragging / sliding .. well the possibilities are enormous . Thanks to Ralph for the fisix link

AS2

http://www.cove.org/flade/

AS3

http://www.fisixengine.com/

http://www.cove.org/ape/

Camera Fly through with Sandy

So after playing with sandy some more, I had this idea of a camera flythrough .. In sandy it's rather simple..

• make a bezier path
• use an pathInterpolator
• hang the path interpolator on the camera
  
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Only run into a sandy bug that when 1. the camera moves over 0,0,0 // or 2. past some objects which scale to large .. the objects come back in reverse :<

Posted a question on the tech forum and got a reaction the same day about the bug being fixed in the next days. Talk about quick response :>

Wouldn't it be grate to have an app which puts objects (foto's ??) in space and makes camera path's, where the camera moves over the path and looks at things along the path .. mmmm, maybe i will give this a try :>

Keep you posted ...

3D in flash, Sandy AS2 VS Papervision AS3

Just read a post by Ralph Hauwert about the new papervision 3D engine and Flex. While I am waiting for the papervision BETA version, I thought why not start some 3D work with an existing engine : Sandy for AS2.

Offcourse the sandy site is a good starting point , also found a really nice tutorial by petit labs

So here is my first go: a box with an Texture skin that I copied, rotated, translated ..
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Wait and see what's next :>