Everyday Flash

Click once to activate, then click anywhere to move the registration point. Use SPACE to change the object or any other key to change the direction of the rotation.
This time I want to share a simple solution to a relatively simple, but annoying problem.
The problem: the Sprite.rotation property rotates the object always around the registration [...]

I have been thinking about doing something like this for some time now, but I had no idea where to start. However, recently, after I experimented with animating vertices in Papervision3D, things started to look brighter, so a couple of days ago I sat down and started coding...
Basic concept here is that there is one [...]

It is official - Flash Player 10 (Astro) is there, and you can download and install it from Adobe Labs. At a first glance, the most exciting things in the new player are (from my point of view):
3D support. Of course! Adobe says "

One weekend, two events, and they are due in two weeks. Pretty cool, isn't it?

Rotating cubes, planes and spheres in 3D is fun. However this time, I thought that I'd try something less basic when it comes to 3D animation. So here's the idea: the Papervision3D universe is composed of triangles. Each object is a structure formed of one or more of them. The points where the triangles meet [...]