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Air: Flv Snapshots

Posted: October 22nd, 2007 | Author: Idoru | Filed under: Actionscript3, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, Experiments, Tutorial, Video | 3 Comments »

I just had a go at air today,

A co-worker of mine needed an application that would make it easy for him to take snapshots of .flv files for a content management system, so i came up with the idea of having a go and doing it with air.

So as a follow up i'll make a little tutorial explaining how it works. As Usual you can have a look in the code for the intructions. And should you have any questions feel free to ask them.

Air application file -Thumb

Update: Now published with the final AIR version.


Double-faced Plane (or Cube with depth=1) in Papervision3D

Posted: October 11th, 2007 | Author: nuno | Filed under: Actionscript3, Code, Experiments, Papervision3d, Tutorial | 5 Comments »

Today I had my first experiments with Papervision3D and after some time playing around I wanted to try having a double-faced Plane() with a different material on each face.

Its likely that a better way to do this exists, but one way to emulate a double-faced Plane() is to have a Cube with depth = 1, and hiding all but the front and back faces. Here's a and the code.

The hint to do this was from ldoru and the car in the images too!

 Update:  I would not longer use such an approach to achieve a double-faced Plane() with a different material on each face. I would recommend using a DisplayObject3D with two normal one-face planes inside it.


Carrousel How-to

Posted: July 31st, 2007 | Author: Idoru | Filed under: 3D, Actionscript3, Code, Experiments, Papervision3d, Tutorial | 6 Comments »

Hi there,

First be sure you have either flash cs3 or flex2 installed on your machine, then you'll want to download the Papervision3d engine.

Now we can get started :)
Look in the code for instructions :)

Download Actionscript source file

And that's it, if you have any questions please post them!! :) We'd love to hear from you.
Lo.


The mighty carrousel!

Posted: July 30th, 2007 | Author: Idoru | Filed under: 3D, Actionscript3, Experiments, Papervision3d | 2 Comments »

This is a rework of the carrousel that Lee did over at flashblog. I've added the extra blur effect and a little revamp of the calculations for the plane rotation.

Code to come soon.