Tag Archives: actionscript
Animate the GlowFilter in AS3
Sometimes when it comes to Flash and ActionScript, it’s the little things that can help out. I had an idea for something that would use the glow filter when you hovered over certain objects. The first way to do this … Continue reading
Step 3 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
In step 1, we made our ship move around the screen and in step 2, we made it so it can fire lasers. Now we have to give it something to shoot at. This is similar to what we did … Continue reading
Step 2 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
In Step 1, we made our ship move around the stage and in step 2 we’re going to make it fire lasers, which, of course, we need to destroy our enemies. I’ve been rewriting a game I made in AS2 … Continue reading
Using Other People’s Code
One thing that I wondered about when I first started learning ActionScript, or HTML/CSS for that matter was, when I found some code, could I use it for my projects? For the most part, I think it’s pretty much ok … Continue reading
Step 1 in Building a Shooter Game in AS3
A couple of days ago, a friend of mine asked for my help building a space shooter game in Flash. Not the most original choice, but he was doing it as an experiment and to learn more about Flash and … Continue reading
3D in Flash and other links
I recently came across an article about building and controlling 3D sprites using ActionScript 3. It was interesting but even in the demo Adobe provides you can tell Flash still has a way to go before 3D is anything more … Continue reading
Joshua Davis’ HYPE and Flash on the iPhone
Recently, Lee Brimelow put up a video tutorial about developing for the iPhone using Flash CS5. When I first watched the video, I was surprised by how easy it looked to make an app.
Use e.target to speed up your coding
Here’s a quick tip that will make your Flash projects a bit easier – e.target. When you have more then one object on the stage that does the same thing, ie. is draggable or activates the same event when clicked, … Continue reading
Flash Blogs I Follow
When I was in school, the program I took was called “Web Design” but essentially it was a sampler of all the different languages and applications you can use to build things on the web. Since I love shiny things … Continue reading
Make a basic button in Flash CS4
When I first started learning ActionScript 3.0, one thing I found was, unlike AS2, no one seemed to be putting up the basics of AS3. One of the first things I wanted to do was, of course, make a button. … Continue reading