The instructions that come with the FIVe3D font making utility are pretty clear overall but on OS X 10.4 it can be confusing to find which WindowSWF folder to use. Is it /Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/en/Configuration/WindowSWF/ ? Or is it /Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/Common/First Run/WindowSWF/ ?

Actually, the place to put “Make a new typography file.swf” is here: /Users/youruserhandle/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration/WindowSWF/.

I used a font called Roadkill. When the font was created, the Flash CS4 Output window said: ‘”Roadkill.as” is in the current folder.’

Since my hard drive is partitioned, it wasn’t immediately clear what was meant by “current folder” in this case. The font.fla file I used to create Roadkill.as via the font-making utility was on the 2nd partition, i.e. not on the main partition.

It turns out “current folder” meant the top most directory on the main partition on my OS X machine, right next to Users, Developer, Library, Applications, System.

One of my favorite FIVe3D examples is this AS3 banner by Bartek Drozdz.

I downloaded the source code graciously provided by the author but when I tried to compile in Flex Builder 3 w/ SDK 3.4, I kept getting errors that told me Flex can’t find classes found in the “fl.motion.*” package. Since that particular package only works in the Flash IDE, I had to make some small adjustments to the FIVe3D banner code to get it to compile as a Flex Builder Actionscript application. Basically, I had to substitute all “fl.motion” package classes with their equivalents from the TweenLite library. For example, when an easing function, such as “import fl.motion.Elastic” was required by line 6 of Screenplay.as, it was quick and easy to change that to “import gs.easing.Elastic,” while making sure the relevant “gs” packages are actually at the location you’re telling the application they’re located.

In Sprite3D.as and Shape3D.as I commented out these lines and most of the banner example’s functionality remained unaffected:

/* ... */
import fl.motion.Color;
/* ... */
var color:Color = new Color();
color.brightness = brightness;
color.alphaMultiplier = alpha;
transform.colorTransform = color;
/* ... */

Une classe pour créer de jolis rubans en 3D “vectorielle” dans le moteur FIVe3D. C’est à la base une classe trouvée sur airtightinteractive écrite pour papervision3d que j’ai adaptée au rendu vecto de FIVe3d. J’ai implémenté des évènements pour faciliter leur utilisation.
Des rubans pour FIVe3D
Les sources sont disponibles sur le lien…

Según parece, la crisis presenta también una parte de oportunidad. Para nosotros, la oportunidad de estudiar temas pendientes, como la integración de 3D en flash. El método ha sido, en primer lugar, tratar de entender un poco la Programación Orientada a Objetos, los conceptos de clase y objeto, mediante la lectura y los tutoriales de AS3, flash_as3_programming.pdf, que se puede descargar de la página de Adobe y del libro ActionScritp 3.0 de Colin Moock en Anaya O´reilly. Seguidamente buscar en Internet información sobre el tema y descubrir una serie de trabajos muy interesantes, tutoriales y desarrollo de librerías de clases, hecho por personas con talento y generosidad, que los ponen a disposición de los demás en código abierto y con licencia para utilizarlo.
En el ejemplo que podéis ver, he utilizado algunas de las clases, concretamente las de Papervisión3D, que es lo que llaman un 3Dengine, un paquete de clases de AS3 que proporciona un entorno 3D a Flash. Vectorvision, una extensión de ese paquete que maneja objetos vectoriales, con una clase que convierte un fichero SVG en una clase de AS3. Five3D, una clase que convierte en clase de AS3, una tipografía instalada en tu ordenador. Y también una clase que adapta el tamaño del SWF al de la pantalla del usuario, escrita por doesnotcompute.

Fuentes utilizadas:
http://blog.papervision3d.org/
http://code.google.com/p/vectorvision/
http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/
http://www.dncompute.com/blog/

The Tech Labs is growing, and tutorials too. This month we have published 6 new and extensive tutorials on Flash Platform. We are working to deliver more educative, extensive and quality tutorials to the comunity, and if you feel that there is a small author on you, why don’t you try to write your own tutorial and contribute to this great project? Moreover, we are paying you USD 100 per each published tutorial.

How to build a AS3 Videoplayer

Create a AS3 Slideshow with XML

How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML – Part 2

Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

]]> http://flashenabledblog.com/2008/07/28/tutorials-8-as3-image-gallery-tutorials-roundup/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:23:46 +0000 Carlos Pinho http://flashenabledblog.com/2008/07/28/tutorials-8-as3-image-gallery-tutorials-roundup/

No matter if we are speaking about a personal or company site, it’s usual to see the use of an image gallery to show their portofolio, or photos or other things. Flash is usualy the choosed platform to develop this kind of popular application. Today i decided to showcase some tutorials where you can learn how to create a cool as3 image gallery:

Parallax Gallery

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

XML Portfolio Viewer

Simple ActionScript 3 XML Gallery

AS3 Photo Viewer

Image Gallery Tutorial

Image Gallery Tutorial

Make a Featured Content Slider for Your Site

]]> http://shiftf12.net/2008/07/25/como-hacer-un-banner-en-flash-con-3d-five3d-y-actionscript-3/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:52:37 +0000 elhector http://shiftf12.net/2008/07/25/como-hacer-un-banner-en-flash-con-3d-five3d-y-actionscript-3/

De nuevo un post de Five3D… ¿Cómo hacer un banner publicitario para web en 3D?… La solución está en este tutorial. Excelente idea: la flexibilidad de Flash con la presentación de Five3D crean un banner fuera de lo normal que de seguro captará la atención de clientes potenciales.

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Sigue la liga para el tutorial aquí, incluye código fuente y todo lo necesario.

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Dándole seguimiento al post de ayer, ahora toca mencionar una aplicación padre de Five3D. Este tutorial nos enseña a armar una galería en 3D utilizando esta nueva herramienta.

Five3D es un proyecto que se vé bastante prometedor: sencillo y elegante. Cada vez he visto más demos y tutoriales de personas que comienzan a usarlo y vale la pena tenerlo en la mira.

(demo de Five3D con código fuente incluido)

Five3D is an AS3 vector based 3D engine developed by Mathieu Badimon, it looks to be rather cool and I’d advise you to check it out over at: http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/

Also check out Mathieu’s labs: http://lab.mathieu-badimon.com/

I am trying to learn 3d effect on Flash/Flex. I find following links is useful for beginner link me.

InsideRIA – lot latest news on RIA( include Flash/Flex)
http://www.insideria.com/

Great blog, especially the Papervision Turial Part I to III
http://fhvisual.wordpress.com/

Video on lot of flash/flex tutorials
http://gotoandlearn.com/

Five3D is a interesting Vector base 3d toolkit, recently port to AS3.0
http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/

Mathieu Badimon released the sweet Five3D vector 3d engine recently. Zeh noted this (and has some experiments) but this is a tracking and howto blog and I like to keep a timeline of influential releases.

You might have seen the Mathieu Badimon labs previously with the very nice scroll handle and technique and ability to rotate and translate the vector objects in 3d space. Now you too can make interfaces with the same cool library.

The one thing I like about this vector engine is well first of all it is vector and secondly it is pretty fast and not too processor intensive, but looks killer.

3D in AS2

http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/