Papervision3D workshop coming to Amsterdam !
During this 2 day workshop from one of the core team members, you’ll receive hands on experience both in everything Papervision3D, covering topics such as the basics of setup and deployment, as well as advanced features and usages of the award winning Papervision3D engine.
Tweensy, a new AS3 tween engine
Tweensy, offers these unique features:
1) A Bitmap rendering feature allowing for Bitmap Effects not easily achieved from the Adobe filter set such as Directional Motion Blur, Liquid Theshold, Directional Displacement and Buldge/Skew Displacement.
2) Particle Emitters to generate smoke, fire, abstract, and magical effects from your motion tweens.
3) Vector shape Tweening
4) Gradient Tweening
Adobe AIR Application Installations Surpass 25 Million
“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today reported that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe® AIRâ„¢ in the first six months since its release. Numerous Fortune 500 companies, in addition to start-ups across a variety of industries, have deployed hundreds of AIR applications to engage with customers, partners, and employees in new and compelling ways.”
DIRECTV Leverages Adobe Technology to Deliver Live NFL Action on the Web
“DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that DIRECTV is powering its next-generation NFL SUNDAY TICKETâ„¢ SUPERCASTâ„¢ service for SuperFan â„¢ customers on the Web with Adobe Flash® technology and Adobe® AIRâ„¢ software. The service is available to SUPERCAST subscribers across a wide variety of browsers, desktops, and operating systems.”
Adobe discontinues FlashPaper
“After careful consideration and analysis, Adobe plans to discontinue new features development for FlashPaper. It is no longer economically viable for Adobe to continue development support for FlashPaper.”
Via FlashMagazine
Organizing Frames and Layers
Point your eyes on this 6 page tutorial explaining how to correctly organize your Frames and Layers when creating Flash Animations.
CS4 Announced on September 23rd!
Adobe will officially announce the 4th version of the Creative Suite on September 23rd.
Be the first to check Adobe CS4 in a special broadcast on 23rd September.
Adobe AIR severely impact flight simmers!
Flight Sim users are reporting game crashes after installing AIR Applications. It seems that AIR controls all .air files and you can find hundreds of these under Microsoft Flight Simulator installation.
User’s are reporting this issue under flightsim.com forums.
Via FlightSimX
Dynamically Change The Frame Rate with Actionscript 3.0
Flash Essential is sharing a tutorial teaching how to change the frame rate at the click of a mouse button or after a certain amount of time.
43 Hot Flex and AS 3.0 APIs by SEAN
Sean Moore is sharing a huge 43 list of great Actionscript 3.0 APIs, tips and tools that for sure are useful for everyone.
Please take some time to take a look at this article, i’m sure you will find something very useful for your current project.
10 Adobe AIR applications perfect for web designers
Six Revisions has posted 10 great AIR applications that might be useful for web designers. The list is composed with some of the best and coolest AIR applications around at the moment.
What you will find:
- Em Calculator
- colorPicker
- AIR Icon Generator
- Google Analytics Reporting Suite
- Shrink O’Matic
- WebSnapshot
- kuler desktop
- pixus
- Klok
- Snippely
Via sixrevisions.com
Norwegian MSN site served Flash exploit
Microsoft is spreading a Flash exploit via a Honda commercial under Norwegian MSN site. More details on this topic can be found here at Flash Magazine.
Build a AS3 Videoplayer
Learn how to create a videoplayer with some basic features like Play/Pause, Stop, Preloading and Scrubbing.
Via The Tech Labs
18 Papervision 3D Examples - Source Code Included
# InteractiveScene3DEvent example
# Layers Demo
# Simple Wow Engine Demo
# Rotation Demo
# BitmapFileMaterial example
# Two Sided Plane
# Video Cube Demo
# VideoStreamMaterial demo
# Sphere BitmapMaterial
# Blender Collada DAE
# Blur effect
# Curved lines
# Lines3D
# Particle field demo
# Bitmap material demo
# Rotating cylinder
# Shaded cube
# Plane wireframe





















