i’ve been playing around with the 3D tools in Flash 10/CS4, with half a mind to completely redo our cube-mapped memory game Two By Two with an actual 3D cube. (Currently, the game uses a series of skewed planes to fake the 3D effect.) The good news is that CS4 does support 3D, although some [...] Keep Reading

You likely know how to instantiate a class in Actionscript 3 using the new keyword: 1 var someClassInstance:SomeClass = new SomeClass(); But what if you want to instantiate a class where the class name is dynamic? For example, we’re working on a project that has a Character class. We pass it a character name (“Fred”, [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Fence() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading

We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Wrap() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: You’ve got a movieclip with a stop action on the first frame. When it appears on-screen, it inexplicably starts playing on frame 2, ignoring frame 1 and your stop action entirely. The movieclip in question is probably embedded into a parent clip that you’ve dynamically added to the stage from the library using the [...] Keep Reading