The new Prius site by Saatchi & Saatchi and Bad Assembly looks awesome, has great sound design and feels really smooth. Oh, the car looks pretty hot too.
I caught word that KitchenSync was used for some of the animation! *Blush*
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Collective thoughts on the Flash Platform, iOS, Unity, and any other technology we use.
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Lolz Days of XMas
by Mims H Wright
AS3 Performance comparison tool
by Mims H Wright
I ran across an interesting performance comparison tool at businessintelligence.me
This could be very useful for code optimization and for a general understanding of what’s going on behind the scenes.
Perhaps the most striking comparisons in this tool are the ones that compare Vectors to Arrays. Looping Vectors appears to be about 60x faster than looping through Arrays. Someone recently asked me when you would want to use Vectors and my response was whenever you possibly can. And if you think about it, the times which you need an untyped Array are (should be) almost never.
Eagle Eye Free Fall
by Mims H Wright
…was a pretty cool example of integrating flash, video, and the real world. It still didn’t make me want to see the movie though.
Tweening timeline animations with KitchenSync
by Mims H Wright
One of the new features in KitchenSync 1.5 is the ability to tween animations on a MovieClip’s timeline… and I’m not just talking about gotoAndPlay(), I’m talking about controlling the starting and stopping points, speed, and easing functions of an animation on the timeline with code. It does this by incrementally controlling the current frame number of the MovieClip using a KSTween and a special ITweenTarget (a class used to control the values of an object) called TimelineController.
Take this FLA animation.
As you can see, there is a simple animation using a guide layer and labels on the key frames.