Great article taking you to create 3D graphing applets using the Adobe Flash CS3 programming environment with the ActionScript 3.0 language. After working through this material you will be able to build a fully customized 3D graphing application (using either a function in two variables or parametric equations) using your own instructions, color schemes and [...]

Today choice at flashden is an awesome XML image gallery with dynamic xml categories where you can select the way the thumbnails are displayed on the stage: vertical, horizontal or random. Add as many images as you like by editing a XML file. Very simple to manage and personalize. This gallery also uses the bitmap [...]

Craig Campbell just posted a nice jukebox example with source file available, demonstrating how you can do it using xml and as3. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

Flash CS3 allows you to create either an ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 document. There are a number of ways ActionScript 3 is different from version 2. One of the first changes designers is no longer being able to attach a script to a button instance. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to control buttons [...]

Generative art can be an intimidating topic, but with the guidance of Chad Udell in this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll be creating compositions in no time. With Adobe’s release of ActionScript 3.0, it’s possible to create beautiful generative pieces using tools you already have in your arsenal. Here, we’ll explore some basic tenets of generative art [...]

Cast3D is 3D animation framework library for Adobe Flash in ActionScript3. The foundation is a multi key-framed geometrical animation. Cast3D supports geometry and texture morphing, skin animation, 3D sound, animated movie and video. A number of animation interpolation splines is implemented to provide smooth and natural motion, like Bezier, TCB, Hemite(cubic), Cosine and Linear. Bookmark [...]

Evolve made a cool AS3 class, which allows you to distort four points of an object. It is an easy to way make distortions such as trapezoids on a movie clip. This class is useful for example to use into the transition between pages of your flash site. Download full source code and check examples. [...]

Steven Sacks released the Gaia 2.0.7 beta 1 today. If you don’t what is Gaia, then read this post and see what you are missing. For the people that already know Gaia, just some more words on the new features: 2.0.7 Beta 1 Overview This beta build is to test new functionality in the Gaia [...]

Slingshot shows you how to create an online portfolio that’s quick to load, easy to update and displays your best work. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

  This tutorial will walk you through how to build a simple random sound machine using ActionScript 3. This version of the ActionScript language is more advanced and is now the de facto standard for professional Flash work. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on [...]