I know it’s been a really long time I haven’t done anything on this blog, but later is better than never, right?

In fact, I haven’t written anything because I’ve been really busy at work (I’m working for Megalo(s))  with huge and interesting projects and I’m teaching AS3 at a fabulous multimedia french school : Gobelins (recently renamed CCI Formation).

I led the flash development of fullflash websites,  most revelants are :

De Dietrich HouseHold appliance(team of 3 developers)

PureDKNY fragrances Teaser (team of 2 developers) : water your plant and it grows, share your plant and it gets flowers.

Pure DKNY fragrances Reveal (team of 2 developers)

Let’s bring this blog back to life, so in the next post I’ll give my Gobelins slides, talk about FITC in Amsterdam, talk about ant Task…

Mr Doob and Román Cortés released an impressive as3 demo of a voxel head. It is a bit heavy (500Kbits), but rendering is sharp and smooth.

Voxel is a “volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space” (Wikipedia).
Voxel is usually used to display landscape or 3d medical data.

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The promising and impressive russian 3D engine is available to download at this adress http://alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/. Usage is free of charge for personal non profit and you must register to download the swc files.

Demos (flash player 10):

API Documentation:
http://help.alternativaplatform.com/en/client/package-summary.html

And tutorials:
http://docs.alternativaplatform.com/dashboard.action, but still written in russian for the moment. It doesn’t matter : AS3 language is international!

Let’s try this engine and compare it with Papervision and Sandy 3D (which are open-source).

Thibault Imbert has just released a new book on actionscript 3.0 in french : “Pratique d’actionscript 3″.

At first, his book was written to be published by O’Reilly but is finally published on the web under creative common licence.

In the 1100 pages he develops events, garbage collector, sockets, bytes arrays, sounds and more and more and more. It’s a really huge work.

Thibault is famous for his blog bytearray, and his work on wiiflash, alive pdf, gif player…

You can get a pdf version here :  http://pratiqueactionscript3.bytearray.org/. A paper version will be available soon.

In my last project I lost some time just to set a textformat to a simple textfield. The font was well linked in the librairy, but the textformat (particularly the font) didn’t apply to the textfield.

I found the reason : flash renames bitmap fonts and adds the suffix : _SIZEpt_st.

- Verdana becomes Verdana_12pt_st
- Arial becomes Arial_12pt_st
- etc.

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