Category Archives: AS3

ActionScript 3.0 Bible Series at FlashCoders NY

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Roger Braunstein

Hey readers! I’ve been doing a series of dynamic, engaging, interactive, educational and disturbingly sexy workshops on topics from the new AS3 Bible. These workshops are hosted by the fearless FlashCoders NY user group. If you’re in NYC and want … Continue reading →

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Killing 3D Transforms

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Roger Braunstein

Here’s a quick tip. If you’ve ever dealt with 3D in Flash Player 10+ you’ll know that DisplayObjects in 3D in Flash Player are bitmap-cached; only the bitmap representation is transformed in 3D. Recently I was working on a site … Continue reading →

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Side-by-side comparison shows blitting isn’t a huge speed bump

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Mims H Wright

This isn’t a new article, but it touches on a topic I’ve heard a lot about recently. That is, pixel ‘blitting‘. Blitting is an old school process used in sprite-based games of essentially erasing a spot in a bitmap image … Continue reading →

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AS3 Bible translated to 繁體中文

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Mims H Wright

Yesterday, completely unannounced, a package arrived at my doorstep containing two copies of the ActionScript 3.0 Bible Traditional Chinese Edition! Well, that’s pretty Zang if you ask me! I’m going to keep one as a trophy but if you can … Continue reading →

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IDisplayObject? – Getting around the lack of an interface for the DisplayObject in Flash

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Mims H Wright

Interfaces are amazing things. When I was young and green, I didn’t understand their purpose, but after working with them for a while, I will defend their use to the end. I try to create lots of interfaces early on … Continue reading →

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