2009

AS3 — No Comments
23
Aug 09

How to use ExternalInterface to integrate AS3 with JavaScript

Here's a quick snippet of code for integrating your SWFs with JavaScript, using ExternalInterface:

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;

// Calling a JavaScript function from AS3 (with optional parameters)
if (ExternalInterface.available) ExternalInterface.call("javascriptFunction", param1, param2);

// Implementing a JavaScript callback in AS3 (flashFunction is called when JavaScript calls javascriptFunction)
if (ExternalInterface.available) ExternalInterface.addCallback("javascriptFunction", flashFunction);

Photos / Travel — 1 Comment
16
Jul 09

Back from Turkey

Hot air balloon over Cappadoccia, TurkeyI just got back from a couple of weeks exploring Turkey. Living on kebabs and melting in up to 40 degree heat was the challenging kind of fun and I managed to see pretty much all of western Turkey in an exhausting 4000km road trip. I also got to ride a hot air balloon through the valleys of Cappadoccia, which was pretty damn cool!

AS3 / Webcam — No Comments
23
Jun 09

Webcam spherize

I cobbled this webcam demo together for no other reason than creative curiosity - a half of mirrors for the information age, I guess - source

3D / AS3 / Webcam — No Comments
20
Jun 09

Head tracking in 3D

I started trying to find useful things to do with face detection, but with limited success. I tried using the Libspark Haar Cascades implementation of face detection with Papervision3D to create a sort of head tracking effect, but it's a little flaky - partly because of poor tracking accuracy and partly because it's too CPU intensive. You can view it on its own page here.

Uncategorized — No Comments
18
Jun 09

Synchronising animation across multiple SWFs

I've been asked a few times now to create effects that require multiple instances of the Flash Player on a page to interact and remain in sync - even with interaction. Because of this, using timed events is no good and because of harddrive thrashing (which I won't do for what might just be some banners) you can't use Flash cookie updates. Also, when you have more than 2 SWFs, deciding which SWF updates who becomes tricky. I came up with this solution, using LocalConnection with a twist, which works pretty well - but if anyone has a better method, drop it in a comment :)

Games — 2 Comments
17
Jun 09

Terminator Salvation online game

I just found this online multiplayer Flash game for Terminator Salvation. Multiuser Flash games have come a long way since I built Dinky Bomb all those years ago. The graphics are very impressive and overall I'm really impressed, though the gameplay is perhaps a little awkward. Essentially though, the best genre of multuser game for Flash seems still to be strategy over all-out action. Maybe the introduction of UDP and binary sockets to Flash 10 will change that.

Terminator Salvation online game

Multitouch / Videos / Webcam — No Comments
10
Jun 09

Multitouch for the masses

Just spotted a video on James Alliban's blog of how to make your own cheap multitouch table. It's a lot easier if you're not initially bothered with projecting your image back into the table - otherwise you'll need a projector (which I don't have) and a camera capable of infrared (which some webcams may already do without requiring modification). I for one, will be having a go...

AS3 — No Comments
3
Jun 09

How Wonderfl

I've been playing around a little with the online Flash building tool, Wonderfl. If you haven't seen it already, I urge you to create an account and have a go. You can browse the weird things that people have created, fork other users' code, or write you own from scratch and see the results compiled online in realtime. It's a great way to learn graphics coding in AS3 I reckon.

Wonderfl

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