SWF It Good

So the last couple of weeks I have been jacking around w/ Bitmaps and BitmapData. I’ve always wanted to try it but never had the courage. Now that I have, I wish I’d have done it sooner.

In this first example I’m just copying each pixel throwing it to the wind and using Tweener to animate it to a spot. I don’t think Tweener is the best option course as you can see it runs slow. I’m also using Grant Skinner’s Memory Gauge to illustrate how slow it is. This is just a proof of concept anyway.

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Update at: How to Add and Remove Mediators in an Actionscript 3 PureMVC App

So I have been working alot w/ PureMVC, well everyday for the last month to be exact. I’m going to try to explain PureMVC the best way I know how. It may not be the best, but I hope it can get you started. And when you learn something let me know.

So the example I am doing is a simple one using Lee Brimelow’s code from the ActionScript 3 Advanced XML example. The only difference between his and what I changed is some method name changes and putting it in PureMVC.

So if you don’t know what PureMVC is or you are quite confused on how to use it…well so am I . I’m still learned and hopefully can teach some stuff. I’m not going to go into the specifics of this framework but think of it as a way to introduce a lot separation of code using the Model, View, Controller. I’ll explain what I see as the benefits after I explain the example.

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Someone asked me to give an example of the alpha masking in flash. So here is an example.

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My wife’s parents gave me the annual gift certificate to Barnes and Noble, so this year I got Actionscript 3.0 Design Patterns. I am excited about it. Last Christmas I got Advanced AS3 Design Patterns but I was just learning AS3 so I couldn’t figure out Design Patterns also.

I have since understood a good deal of the book but I think this one is a little more basic and has more examples. I hope I can apply these new ideas in to my new job as I am coding in a low-level manner so that the work can be used in either Flash or Flex.

If you haven’t heard from the whole Flash community Papervision 3D 2.0 is out w/ textures, more interactive features and new coding conventions like BasicRenderEngine Class. I was working on a Coverflow thing for a client a week ago that I abandoned and just moded Doug McCune. But when I was going to do it myself I was using the Great White Trunk.

Here is what I came up with:

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package
{

import caurina.transitions.Tweener;

import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.Event;

import org.papervision3d.cameras.*;
import org.papervision3d.materials.*;
import org.papervision3d.objects.*;
import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.*;
import org.papervision3d.render.BasicRenderEngine;
import org.papervision3d.scenes.*;
import org.papervision3d.view.Viewport3D;;

public class PV3DTest extends Sprite
{
[Embed(source="images/one.jpg")]
private var Pic:Class;

public var scene:Scene3D;
public var camera:Camera3D;
public var viewport:Viewport3D;
public var renderer:BasicRenderEngine;
private var photoContainer:Plane;

public function PV3DTest()
{
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
init();
}

private function init():void
{
scene = new Scene3D()
camera = new Camera3D();
camera.focus = 500;
camera.zoom = 3;

renderer = new BasicRenderEngine();

viewport = new Viewport3D(stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight, false, false, true, true);
viewport.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init3d);
addChild(viewport);
}

private function init3d(e:Event = null):void
{
var data:Bitmap;
var photoMat:BitmapMaterial;

data = new Pic() as Bitmap;

photoMat = new BitmapMaterial(data.bitmapData);
photoContainer = new Plane(photoMat, 220, 210, 6, 6);
camera.target = photoContainer;
//photoContainer.yaw(45);

scene.addChild(photoContainer);
renderer.renderScene(scene, camera, viewport);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, render);
}

private function render(evt:Event):void
{
Tweener.addTween(photoContainer, {rotationY: 45, transition:”linear”, time:.5});
Tweener.addTween(viewport, {x: 300, transition:”linear”, time:.5});
renderer.renderScene(scene, camera, viewport);
}

}
}

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