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Alternativa3D is out!

nicoB — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:50:35 +0000

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).

ByteArray’s book under Creative Commons licence

nicoB — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:05:43 +0000

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.

AS3 : embedding bitmap font in the librairy

nicoB — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:13:15 +0000

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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Fauchon’s website : the full flash online shop

nicoB — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:52:18 +0000

My company launched 2 weeks ago, the new Fauchon website : www.fauchon.com.
Still in french for the moment, it will be translated in other languages soon.

Fauchon is a famous Parisian delicatessen and one of the world’s leading gourmet food and specialty companies.

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Diesel, customize your fragrance in 3d

nicoB — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:45:01 +0000

My first Papervision project is online, yyyeeaaahhh!!!

With my company, I’ve developped the new Diesel Factory website. Now you can customize your own fragrance bottle and watch the result live in 3d.

Have a look at : http://www.diesel-factory.com.
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Papervision, reading zipped collada

nicoB — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:20:29 +0000

In Papervision, the 3D Objects are defined in Collada files. Collada files are just XML files with a specific DTD (or schema). In consequence, colladas inherit the same qualities and defects as XML. One of the main defect is the file size which can be a major problem if you’re doing an online application.

Here a little tutorial to display a zipped collada in a papervision application : demo (more…

Diesel fragrances website

nicoB — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:05:30 +0000

Here it is, the Diesel Fragrances website is online. In fact it’s been a few weeks now but I didn’t have any time to talk about it on my blog.

I did it with my company Megalos and I was the lead developer on this big international website.

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How to connect to Flickr in as3

nicoB — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:31:51 +0000

In this little tutorial, I’ll show you how to connect to the Flickr Service in actionscript3.

Here’s the demo

First of all, you’ll need :

- a Flickr account

- a Flickr API Key

- the Adobe as3flickrlib

- the Adobe as3corelib

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Great portfolios

nicoB — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:57:03 +0000

Aezia and monsieur VD just released their brand new portfolios.

Take a look at their work it’s really great :

- http://www.aezia.net

- http://www.monsieur-vd.com/

Both are freelance, so don’t hesitate to contact them to have a sublime, ergonomic and W3C valid website!

actionscript3 tutorial, AIR book and Papervision3D cheatsheet

nicoB — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:23:18 +0000

Senocular has just published a great tutorial on actionscript3 : Getting started with actionscript 3.0 and Adobe Flash CS3. This is a must-read tutorial for the ones who want to learn as3 or migrate from as2 to as3.

By the same time you can download for free the “Adobe Integrated Runtime (Air) for Javascript developers” from Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura and Kevin Hoyl on the ajaxian website.

Finally, you can download the Papervision 3D cheatsheet on the http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com website.

Leave your Harry Potter book, you have to many things to read and not enough time.