Over the US holiday weekend, I participated in the Charity Game Jam organized by Christer Kaitila, author of Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Game Programming Beginner’s Guide and The Game Jam Survival Guide (for which I was able to serve as technical reviewer). The idea was to make a game inspired by the technical limitations …
As with all of my publications with video2brain, there are a number of free videos that are made available through a number of distribution channels, including the video2brain website and YouTube. I have added all of these to my Edge Animate playlist for easy access. In all; 25 videos at nearly 2 hours of free …
In the past, if we wanted to copy some data from a camera object to a bitmap, we would need to draw the data from the display object using flash.display.BitmapData.draw() and then manipulate it in some way. This is problematic at times… if there is no way of knowing whether we have valid bitmap data …
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In this project-based workshop, Joseph Labrecque teaches you how to use some of the more advanced features in Adobe Edge Animate 1.0, including responsive layout design, external data consumption, and dynamic content generation. You’ll also learn about using compositions on mobile devices, generating content from Flash Professional for use in Animate, and a variety of …
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend, and speak at, the Adobe Education Exchange Live event in Toronto, Ontario back on November 9th. The event piggy-backed onto the larger DesignThinkers conference being held at the same time and both events led up the Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) ceremony. The session I gave …
In the past, we’ve been able to attach a local camera to Video display objects within Flash Player with relative ease. The flash.media.Video object, of course, is part of the traditional display list and is not accelerated by the system GPU whatsoever. Using the newer flash.media.StageVideo object, we can implement a GPU-accelerated video display beneath …
With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to listen for a frame label event is now included in the runtimes. For example; if you have a MovieClip symbol with a certain set of animation within it, and you have a number of frame labels defined upon the symbol’s timeline… you can now listen for …