Category Archives: Flash

I had some trouble finding good information regarding the mxi file format (the package description file format for mxp file generation).

Satori Canton’s TextScript source code is good, but when we used it in the production of a few movies for some banner ad’s on Lincoln’s site we had some problems with how the animated text was being built, so I rewrote it … Continue reading →

Here’s a class I used for building Mercury’s transition effect between vehicles. Starting from senocular’s ColorFader class, I’ve rewritten it to use the ColorTransform classes instead of Color / setRGB. It’s pretty good and relatively fast.

With regards to 3D in Flash and the recent release of papervision’s source, there’s been some renewed interest in doing 3D in Flash. Depends on your needs, it can be relatively lightweight simple 3D stuff to more complex needs and interactive … Continue reading →

I was working on a project where a simple swf FLV player was picked up from years ago that I believe was an AS1 version of FLVplayer, but we ran into problems using it in conjunction with DIV tag replacement (part … Continue reading →

Neat issue came up with image sequences in Flash. Prior to Flash 8 Player playing an image sequence would release the memory used by an image as soon as the frame reference passed, using up only enough RAM to present … Continue reading →

Here’s one I use when I don’t need any fancy broadcasting in my work. I’m kind of partial to simple code to solve problems that integrates easily. Here’s the AS3 as file