Class 2

Programming Pong
Human Pong @ YouTube
The Story of PONG
Analyze this: Faux Pong
Class Notes (file)
Flash Tutorials (link)

Programming Pong
Human Pong @ YouTube
The Story of PONG
Analyze this: Faux Pong
Class Notes (file)
Flash Tutorials (link)

A simple but fun animation technique using the basic code we looked at yesterday is the endless scrolling panorama. With a bit of additional code you can also do parallax scrolling - a technique that has been used in many video games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling
Flash tutorial:
http://www.pixelhivedesign.com/tutorials/Endless+Scrolling+Background/
(that is in Actionscript 2 - so the syntax is different from Actionscript 3 - but the concepts still apply)
Quake C-Code running in the flash plugin
See the vid until the very end:
http://blip.tv/file/408241/
Then read more about it:
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1095
Here is the work file for today's class: link
We will be working with arrays, collision detection + object.
Download file
Book examples (link)
Class Files (link)
Bitmap caching
The BitmapData Class
Blend modes
Bitmap filters.
Color Changes
Image Encoding
Moock (link)
GotoAndLearn: BitmapData (link)
Examples
Lava Lamp
Particles
Visual Effects
Blur/Fade
Collision Detection
Loading External Data ( Example Files)
Quiz! (link)
gotoAndLearn Video Tutorial on AS3 & XML (link)
Example files from the tutorial (link)
Example files from the book Learning Actionscript 3 (link)
Wikipedia entry on XML (link)
W3 tutorial on XML (link)
Going Further: Using External Libraries
List of APIs from Adobe (link)
Google Maps (examples) (link)
AS 3 Flickr API (link)
Papervision (link) installing (link)
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