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Alternativa 3D Series - Tutorial 2 - Adding Material

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

In part one of this tutorial series you saw how to create a simple Alternativa 3D Flash application. The end result was a spinning cube, drawn with a wireframe material that displayed the edges of the polygons that made up the cube. In this tutorial I will show you how to add a material to the cube to give it a more appealing look.

Creating a AIR Web Service Package with Flash and Actionscript 3.0 - Base Service Class And Simple Twitter API

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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Creating a AIR Web Service Package with Flash and Actionscript 3.0 - Base Service Class And Simple Twitter API

In this series of tutorials, you will learn the basics of architecting a simple but powerful Web Services Package. We'll start off by creating a class which will be the base of all our services and then continue to create a very simple Twitter API.

Setting up Away3d with Flex 3

Monday, September 1, 2008

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In this tutorial I will show you how to set up a simple away3d scene, taking advantage of FlexBuilder's enhanced programming interface. I will also take advantage of the tutorial to introduce Flex to Flash developers who have never used it.

Creating a Weather Widget with XML and Actionscript 3.0

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and Actionscript 3.0

In this tutorial I'm presenting you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites, or our personal page. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a different interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Pretty cool stuff. We gonna connect weather.com XML data file with our flash widget. Weather.com offers us a free service to do that.