By Zevan | December 23, 2008
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In a recent kirupa thread, senocular posted an very useful snippet to aid in the creation of a two sided 3D MovieClip. The thread also contains an in depth description of polygon winding.
Description of Polygon Winding
I created a navigation demo using this technique.
Here is the source for the above demo
UPDATE
Justin Windle of soulwire has written a nice class called PaperSprite that uses this technique. The class is worth checking out - it’s nicely designed… read more about it here.
By Zevan | December 22, 2008
Actionscript:
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var colors:Array = [0xFF0000, 0x666699, 0x223322, 0xCCCCDD, 0xFFEEFF];
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var alphas:Array = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1];
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var ratios:Array = [0, 50, 100, 200, 255]
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var filter:GradientGlowFilter = new GradientGlowFilter(0, 0, colors, alphas, ratios, 30, 30, 1, 2, "full", true);
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var circles:Shape = new Shape();
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for (var i:int = 0; i<30; i++){
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with(circles.graphics) beginFill(0xFF0000), drawCircle(Math.random()*500, Math.random()*400,10+Math.random()*40);
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}
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addChild(circles);
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circles.filters = [filter];
I don't see GradientGlowFilter used much. But with some tweaking you can probably get some decent stuff out of it.
Posted in Graphics | Also tagged flash |
By Zevan | December 21, 2008
Actionscript:
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mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollOver);
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function onRollOver(evt:MouseEvent):void {
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addChild(MovieClip(evt.currentTarget));
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}
This one is very simple, but it's important to note that using addChild() on something that is already on the display list simply brings it to the top. Back in AS2 we used to do:
By Zevan | December 19, 2008
Actionscript:
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var file:FileReference = new FileReference();
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stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
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function onClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
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file.save("some text. \nsome more text", "actionsnippet.txt");
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}
This is possibly my favorite feature of flash 10. Save any kind of file to the users computer...
The first argument is for the data to put in the file, this can be a String, ByteArray or XML object. The second argument is the name of the file.
As a test I also created one that saved a BitmapData object as a jpeg. But it doesn't really fall into the category of snippet because it uses the Jpeg Encoder from adobe.
Posted in misc | Also tagged flash |