The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development

2008-09-02 Computers

Author : John Grden
Release : 2008-09-02
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development by : John Grden

Download or read book The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development written by John Grden. This book was released on 2008-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the world of open source Flash and discover which tools are available. Learn how to identify which tool you need and how to best fit it into your workflow. Step-by-step walk-throughs guide you through development with the most popular open source Flash tools. Written by the project leads and open source Flash aficionados. The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development is a practical development guide to creating Flash applications with open source Flash tools and workflows. You will walk away with an understanding of what tools will best suit your current situation, making your development easier and more productive, and with the knowledge of how to install and set up some of the best tools available, including the following: Papervision3D: to create 3D in Flash Red5: to stream video over the internet SWX: to build data-driven mashups and mobile apps Fuse: to make ActionScript animation a cinch Go: to build your own animation tools in ActionScript 3.0 haXe: to create Flash files and more AMFPHP: to communicate between Flash and php Open source Flash has been a revolution for Flash and has made a major impact on how people build Flash content. The open source tools available expand on Flash's existing tool set, enabling you to perform such tasks as easily create full 3D in Flash or hook up to an open source video-streaming server. Many of these useful tools are powerful yet lack documentation. this book explains in step-by-step detail how to use the most popular open source Flash tools. If you want to expand your Flash tool set and explore the open source Flash community, then this book is for you. If you already use some open source Flash tools, then you will find this book a useful documentation resource as well as an eye-opener to the other tools that are available.

The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers

2010-03-25 Computers

Author : Ira Greenberg
Release : 2010-03-25
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 807/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers by : Ira Greenberg

Download or read book The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers written by Ira Greenberg. This book was released on 2010-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Processing is a open source project that bridges the gap between programming and art. Its simplicity and power appeal to non-coders and old-hands alike. As a Flash developer, you already have a firm grasp of basic programming principles and an understanding of creating and controlling visuals through code. This book uses your existing knowledge as a springboard to learning Processing and harnessing the extra creative power and control that it offers, both on and off the web. The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers takes a hands-on approach to learning Processing that builds upon your familiarity with Flash, and your experience with the ActionScript language and object-oriented programming concepts. The book offers a full series of Processing projects, structured to allow less experienced coders to get up to speed quickly, while leaving room for more experienced programmers to take the initial project concepts and build more complex applications. Includes a language primer explaining all of the Processing-specific programming theory you need to know Contains a full series of Processing projects and numerous easy-to-follow code examples Covers Processing's Java mode, providing an easy-to-navigate bridge to programming in Java, Processing's underlying host language

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript

2009-04-23 Computers

Author : Chris Kaplan
Release : 2009-04-23
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript by : Chris Kaplan

Download or read book The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript written by Chris Kaplan. This book was released on 2009-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any professional designer or developer working in the world of web technologies or multimedia, Flash is the must-have application, and knowing how to use it effectively is vital. Add in ActionScript 3.0, and Flash becomes an even more powerful tool for the development of high-performance web applications. The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript introduces and explores the possibilities available to you by using Flash CS4. You will learn the basics of Flash's working environment and, using a step-by-step approach, work through the features of Flash and ActionScript needed to quickly achieve results. From navigating the interface to using graphic tools to write scripts and troubleshoot, you'll master deploying highly interactive applications with rich audio, video, and animation. Written for the beginning-to-intermediate Flash user, this book uses complete examples that highlight best practices that you can apply to your daily work as a developer or designer in today's rich media world.

AdvancED Game Design with Flash

2010-12-28 Computers

Author : Rex van der Spuy
Release : 2010-12-28
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 400/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis AdvancED Game Design with Flash by : Rex van der Spuy

Download or read book AdvancED Game Design with Flash written by Rex van der Spuy. This book was released on 2010-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating games in Flash is a never-ending journey of exploration, learning, and most of all, fun. Once you’ve mastered the basics, a new world is opened up to you, enabling you to take your existing skills to the next level and discover new skills that will in turn open new doors. This book is a direct continuation of Foundation Game Design with Flash, and is a complete point-by-point roundup of the most important skills a Flash game designer needs to know. You’ll increase your ActionScript knowledge and your game design skills while creating some excellent example games. You’ll learn advanced collision detection skills; professional AI and pathfinding; and how to load and save game data, create destructible environments, and build and switch game levels. Each chapter highlights a new advanced technique illustrated by practical examples. Examples of games are given in a variety of genres, all of which take an object-oriented programming approach. Advanced game design topics are covered, including vector-based collision reaction, pathfinding, billiard ball physics, and modeling game data.

The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash

2010-08-06 Computers

Author : Richard Olsson
Release : 2010-08-06
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash by : Richard Olsson

Download or read book The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash written by Richard Olsson. This book was released on 2010-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D. Describes 3D concepts in theory and their implementation using Away3D Dives right in to show readers how to quickly create an interactive, animated 3D scene, and builds on that experience throughout the book Each chapter contains a number of tutorials that focus on one specific feature or group of features

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