Tech Tutorial: Simulation of Particle Systems in Flash
Particle systems allow us to simulate different real world phenomena like clouds, fog, and water. However, it can be very time consuming and difficult to build particle systems from scratch. Fortunately, there are two common open source particle engines we can use: the Flint and Stardust particle engines. They are similar to Papervision3D because they can help us to minimize the mathematics and scripts required to build particle effects. In this blog, we will use Stardust as an example to build a word in ActionScript 3 using particles.
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Tech Tutorial: Five Tricks to Get Facebook Content Working in Flash – Part 2
The Facebook API makes publishing content to a user’s wall easy if you do it right.
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Tech Tutorial: HTML5 Canvas and IE
When you want to develop rich and highly interactive web applications, using HTML5 features coupled with some JavaScript might sound like a great idea at first. But at one point, you will have to face one of the most challenging issues for a web developer: Cross platform compatibility and browser version support. This issue becomes especially problematic when you have to take in consideration previous versions of Internet Explorer, such as IE7 and IE8, which don’t support the HTML5 canvas tag at all. Luckily, some simple tools and features are available to overcome this annoying compatibility issue. Read more…
TechnologyTech Tutorial: Useful Tips That Make a Flash Developer’s Life Easier
When you develop projects using Flash technology, it is sometimes important to consider some small things that can be useful and save you development time. Here is a list of some useful tips that can be used during your Flash development:
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Tech Tutorial: Five Tricks to Get Facebook Content Working in Flash – Part 1
Setting up a Facebook Application on Facebook is necessary to pull content from Facebook. Facebook will give you a Facebook App ID for permission to access their API.
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