John has been working on a great 3D Framework for AS3 called Lux. You can see it in action on his blog. The depth of field feature is really nice and something I haven’t seen before with ActionScript. On his site there is a performance test available for viewing and he’s looking for feedback on framerate results. I’m looking forward to playing with the framework when that becomes available.
This is one image in a series I did about darts. A “Ton Eighty” is 180 points and the highest possible throw achieved by landing all three darts inside the triple bed of the number twenty scoring 3 x 20 for each dart. I modeled and rendered this image using 3D Studio Max. The blurred effect was created by setting a very short depth of field with the virtual camera focused on the dart’s entry point into the dartboard. This effect helps gives the image a more dramatic and photorealistic look.
This image is about two years old and my first real attempt at a vector-based illustration using Adobe Illustrator. I was teaching myself clipping paths, blends and different tools such as pathfinder. I was trying to see how close I could get to something photorealistic or at least something that not at all screamed clip-art.
On Thursday, August 31st, Adobe is having an eSeminar on Flex Data Services. You can sign up for this Breeze Meeting or one of their other upcoming Flex 2 events on Adobe’s Web site.
Welcome to the third and final installment of this three part series on writing and packaging JSFL commands. In this last post I will go over how to update our Invisible Button command so that we can use a relative installation path to locate our XML form. I’ll also go over how to create an installer file (MXI) and package it (MXP) so that you can distribute your commands.
Back in ActionScript 2.0 using type annotating was a “best-practice” approach that helped speed up development by identifying type casting errors at compile time. The actual values were stored in memory as dynamically typed atoms so the type annotations never really mattered after you published. However, dynamically typed atoms tended to waste memory as values were loosely stored leaving breathing room for changing values.
Back in May Adobe had a week-long online seminar with a lot of broadcasted sessions on Flash and Flex. You can find recordings of all these sessions in the community section of their web site. http://www.adobe.com/communities/developerweek/
Hold down the control key and hover over different mxml tag properties and ActionScript function calls in your source code. If the word turns into a hyperlink you can click on it to jump directly it’s function.
Shlomy Gantz started up a Flex Users group and opened registration during the Real-World Flex Seminar at The Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. According to Shlomy, by the end of the day there were roughly a hundred registrations from both on-site and on-line applicants. I was around the 50th or so person to register and that was fairly early in the day. They plan on having their first meeting this September. You can find them on-line at http://www.nyflex.org.
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