Away3D Shoot’em’Up Tutorial – Sound Effects
In this article we add some sound effects to the game.
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28. July 2009
Create from Scratch a Away3D Shoot’em’Up Game: Part 4
Now that we have the player and some enemies we need for them to be able to interact. This is done through collision detection which you will learn in this fourth part.
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21. July 2009
Getting Started With BetweenAS3
There are many popular open source tweening engines in the Flash community today. Numbered among these are Tweener, TweenLite/Tweenmax, Tweensy, and GTween. This is a short look at the capabilities of newcomer to the scene: BetweenAS3. BetweenAS3 is the tweening engine brainchild of Yoshihiro (yossy) Shindo and is available as part of the Spark project (i.e. it is brought to us by one of the same group that brought the world the FLARToolkit for Augmented Reality in Flash and countless other goodies).
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17. July 2009
Web Roundups: 7 Free Flash CMS
A Flash CMS is a good option to deliver projects to your clients when they want to manage and change the content easly, without programming knowledge and avoiding to edit the flash files. Today, we show you the free available options which you should bear in mind before decide to go on Premium Products.
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15. July 2009
Create from Scratch a Away3D Shoot’em’Up Game: Part 3
After you have created the 3D level, in the part 3 of this Away3D series, we will show you how to add the player spacecraft and enemies.
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13. July 2009
Create an intelligent XML image Gallery & Slideshow in Flash CS4 (+PHP) – Part I/II
In this article you will learn how to build an image gallery that will load images from a web server. I decide to call it "Intelligent" because you don't need to configure any XML or flash file. Just put the Flash movie and the images on a server and they will be loaded automatically. Nice ah?
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8. July 2009
Create from Scratch a Away3D Shoot’em’Up Game: Part 2
In the part 1 of these tutorial series articles we created a framework that we could build off to start making the actual game. Now it's time to create a 3D level for the player to fly through.
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6. July 2009
Create from Scratch a Away3D Shoot’em’Up Game: Part 1
Today we start a 9 part tutorial series on creating a Shoot'em'Up game. We will cover all the necessary topics to create it from scratch, which will help you to understand and apply these guidelines to other projects. Ath this first part. we look at getting the Away3D engine up and running by creating a UIComponent that will contain and initialize the necessary Away3D components.
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1. July 2009
Build a Creative “Swirl Animated Menu” with Flash CS4
Flash it's a powerful application and can be really complex, but even beginners can create a cool menu for demonstration or for use in a personal site. The menu that we will create is simple, but the swirl animation is something that you don't see everywhere, for that I've decided to explain one way to make an animation of growing swirls without any Action Script code.You will also learn how to import artwork from illustrator where I've pre-made the graphics, the work is very simple and the result will be very cool.
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29. June 2009
SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation
With more and more full screen Flash web sites appearing on the internet, it's important to understand how to properly embed the Flash movie in the browser window. In this tutorial we will cover best practice embedding of SWF movies using SWFObject with a custom function for adding browser scrollbars for smaller browser windows.
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4. March 2010
PhotoScape Download
PhotoScape – Image Editing Software PhotoScape Download: PhotoScape is an easy-to-use, feature-rich image editing software that supports all the most common image formats. PhotoScape Download: whether you’re a beginner or an intermediate user, PhotoScape is ideal to fix and enhance all sorts of images. PhotoScape comes with pre-build templates for you to create photo collages, web [...]
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Corel DRAW Download
Corel DRAW – Illustration Software Corel DRAW Download: Corel DRAW is a powerful vector graphics editor developed by Corel. Corel DRAW is part of Corel DRAW Graphics Suite, which offers a great collection of powerful design software for illustrators. Corel DRAW Download: to tackle all sort of design jobs! The suite contains Corel DRAW, Corel PHOTO [...]
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KoolMoves Download
KoolMoves – Flash Software KoolMoves Download: KoolMoves is an affordable, easy-to-use Flash creation software developed by Lucky Monkey Designs and used by both beginners and professionals to create rich interactive web content. KoolMoves Download: to help you create Flash banners, web pages, slide shows, navigation systems, etc. This great application combines ease of use with a [...]
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SWiSHmax Download
SWiSHmax – Flash Software SWiSHmax Download: SWiSHmax is a powerful Flash application developed by SwishZone. It is considered as simpler and less costly than other Flash creation tools like Adobe Flash. SWiSHmax Download: to help you produce interactive and cross-platform animations, presentations and movies. SWiSHmax has a wide range of powerful, easy-to-use features to let you [...]
Continue reading...24. January 2010
Google SketchUp Download
Google SketchUp – 3D Modeling Software Google SketchUp Download: Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-use sketch-based 3D modeling program with a suite of powerful tools to produce 3D models of houses, decks, sheds, home additions, woodworking projects, etc. Google SketchUp Download: to enjoy the extremely user-friendly interface to add details, textures and glass to your models [...]
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AutoCAD Download
AutoCAD – 3D Modeling Software AutoCAD Download: AutoCAD is a computer aided design software application developed by Autodesk. It is one of the world’s leading 2D and 3D design and drafting tools. AutoCAD Download: to help you design and shape the world around you with powerful, flexible features. This software application will help you speed documentation, [...]
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DAZ Studio Download
DAZ Studio – 3D Modeling Software DAZ Studio Download: DAZ Studio is a free 3D figure modeling, posing and animation tool developed by DAZ 3D. This feature rich application enables users, whatever their level is, to easily produce great digital imagery. This is the ideal tool, whether you’re a 3D beginner or an advanced 3D artist, [...]
Continue reading...9. July 2009
Freebie: E-Book Web Designer’s Success Guide
The well known Kevin Airgid, released some time ago this awesome 81 pags e-book. This great document is intended specially for those who want to start their own freelance Web Design business. Along the book Kevin takes you through the journey to create, manage and grow your business.
Continue reading...5. July 2009
Flash Freebie: ActionScript 3.0 Migration Cookbook
We have noticed on the recent searches within The Tech Labs, one of the Top queries were on ActionScript 2.0. Therefore, if you are one of those still using the previous version of ActionScript, than this migration cookbook by Mike Chambers will be a great help. This document will show how to achieve commons tasks either in ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 so you can check and learn the differences between both. This version is update to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
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