Flash, Actionscript, Design, Games and Programming.
So I finally got around to checking out the brillaint Three.js, the 3D JavaScript Engine, by the incredible Mr Doob. It’s really easy to pick up, even for a JavaScript novice like me – and the performance (WebGL in chrome) is absolultey astounding. Three JS has a few different renderers – Canvas Renderer DOM Renderer [...]
Another quick – post. I’ve been playing with the great SION AS3 sound library lately, but couldn’t find a list of all the instruments available. So here they are – all the ones that worked for me at least – ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTvar waveArray:Array = ["sine","saw","triangle8","triangle","square","noise","snoise","konami","ma1","beep","ramp","valsound.bass1","valsound.bell1","valsound.brass1","valsound.guitar1","valsound.lead1","valsound.percus1","valsound.piano1","valsound.se1","valsound.special1","valsound.strpad1","valsound.wind1","valsound.world1","midi.piano1","midi.chrom1","midi.organ1","midi.guitar1","midi.bass1","midi.strings1","midi.ensemble1","midi.brass1","midi.reed1","midi.pipe1","midi.lead1","midi.pad1","midi.fx1","midi.world1","midi.percus1","midi.se1","midi.drum24"]; More details on SION here – http://sites.google.com/site/sioncenter/ And here’s [...]
In: Actionscript|Audio|Classes and Functions|Experiments|Flash|Flash Midi Server|Source Code
26 Apr 2011For a couple of audio projects, I needed some nice musical scales, in midi note format (0-127). I couldn’t find a good list online, so had to knock together a quick script to trace some out. Here’s some that I’m using in a current project, and also the AS source to find any other ones [...]
Let me file this post under boring but useful. Recently I worked on a project where I had to validate UK postcodes in flash. The method I used in the end was a regular expression I found, with a bit of formatting logic added. This should work for all UK postcodes. ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTvar validPostcode:String [...]
In: Actionscript|Classes and Functions|Experiments|Flash|Portfolio|Source Code
21 May 2010This week I saw Flight 404′s “Swarm Behavior” on vimeo – Swarm behavior from flight404 on Vimeo. Yet another awesome video from Robert, using his Cinder framework. Cool! In the description, he mentions the particle’s behavioral rules – 1) If I am far away from my neighbors, move towards them. 2) If I am too [...]
This is the blog of Lawrie Cape, an interactive developer from Leeds, England.