Cleaning your Flash Builder projects

 actionscript 3  6 Responses »
Jul 232010
 

In training, I frequently create examples on my mac, get them working, tweak them, and then copy them over to my trainees pcs. In doing so, I have come across a few problems that I thought I would share with you, and the solutions (not perfect) that I have  used to fix these issues.

What I normally do is create a new Actionscript project on my mac. Create and test the files and get everything ready for the training.

Then I copy the whole project folder onto a training pc, and sometimes I end up with problems. For example…  Read more...

Blender tutorials

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Jul 232010
 

I love Blender, and with the advent of Blender 2.5 alpha 2 I have been working through lots of tutorials to get up to speed with its new features (of which there are many). Here is a list of tutorial sites that I would recommend to everyone who is serious about 3D modelling. Most of these you have to pay for, but they are well worth it.

CGCookie Blender

http://www.blendercookie.com/

Lots of great tutorials, going through creating  a dragon, showing how to model a hand, head, eyeball, porsche, a mechanic, and many other tips and techniques and shapes.  Read more...

HTML5/CSS3 experiments

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Jul 102010
 

What can HTML5 and CSS do? Here are a list of HTML5/CSS3 experiments that I have come across. Have a look, they are great fun.

A solar system…

http://neography.com/experiment/circles/solarsystem/

Blowing up video…

http://www.craftymind.com/2010/04/20/blowing-up-html5-video-and-mapping-it-into-3d-space/

Leopard style stack example…

http://gordonbrander.com/lab/css3-stacks/#stack

Harmony…

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/#shaded

Fishtank…

http://gregmurray.org/fish/

Canvas molecules…

http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/

As I find new ones I will post them, but if anyone knows of any others, let me know and I will add them to the list.

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Blueprint – a Flash Builder extension

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Jul 102010
 

Using Flash Builder a lot as I do I am always on the look out for new extensions.  Recently I came across a lovely new extension from Adobe. It is called Blueprint.

Blueprint – a Flash Builder Extension, allows you to search the web for examples of code, directly within Flash Builder.

For example, suppose you are  tweening and want to see what examples you can find regard the Tween class. Just highlight Tween and press CTL-B (Mac) or Alt – B (PC).

This brings up the Blueprint panel, with the search results.

Blueprint panel  Read more...

more on Flash and HTML 5

 Flash  1 Response »
Jul 012010
 

There has been a lot of talk lately about HTML5 and whether it would negate the need for Flash.  In fact this turned into a fairly mainstream discussion over the last few months after Steve Jobs made his position very clear, by refusing to support Flash on the iPhone, changing the T’s and C’s of the iPhone developer program and publishing an open “Flash Bashing” letter for all to read.  Read more...