Everyday Flash

A couple of weeks ago the Away3D team announced the release of version 2.0. The news was accompanied with a stunning demo called Green Planet. I was impressed, so I downloaded the source and started to play with it.
From the start I was interested in checking some light and shading possibilities that Away3D offers. I [...]

A couple of weeks ago Thibault Imbert from ByteArray.org announced that he just finished a book on ActionScript 3. It was supposed to be released by O'Reilly France. However, for different reasons, the editor couldn't publish it. Thibault then decided to release it for free in form of a PDF file! He created a fresh [...]

I downloaded the FIVe3D engine in AS3 a couple of days ago and started to play with it a bit.
The first thing to notice is its simplicity. What I liked in particular is that the structure of classes corresponds exactly to the structure used in standard AS3. Where in AS3 there is a Sprite, in [...]

Good news reached my RSS reader this morning. Zeh Fernando on his blog is informing us that Mathieu Badimon just released his 3D engine in AS3 - FIVe3d.
With all the hype about Papervision3D, Away3D and others, FIVe3d is an interesting tool to look at, because unlike others it renders 3D graphics using vector rather than [...]

I got some feedback about the sound equalizer that I posted a few days ago, and especially about the reflection effect I used in there. I thought that maybe it was a good idea to write a tutorial about how to make these kind of reflection using AS3. It is a pretty straightforward technique, but [...]

Since a few days there is a lot of buzz about the Flash Player 9,0,124,0 Security Update. There seems to be a lot and confusing informations flying around on what's going to happen now. Without adding too much, I just want to share a

Today I switched my blog from Blogger to Wordpress. I was a tough decision, but it was better to do it now, then later, when my blog will have more content. This operation might have caused, as a side effect, the resetting of all the posts in the RSS feed, which in turn did show [...]