My sister always says a Bearded Man’s a Bad Man. THIS is so much fun (via flazoom)
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Video Test
Last year I went on Holiday to New York, and I had a ball. I took about 400 pictures, which came out well and some digital video. The quality isn’t great, it came from a digital stills camera rather than a digital video camera. The volume’s also kind of loud.
The video is of a band playing jazz in Central park. The guy in the blue jacket is playing two trumpets simultaneously. It was pretty cool.
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Never Finishing Anything
I work in an office. until we moved buildings there was quite a lot of space and, occasionally, to get around the office, I’d push myself around on my chair. A colleague of mine is working on a tank game and he wants to make it multiplayer. I was looking at it and moving around on my chair and he suggested I make a game where I whizz around on my chair. THAT is the sort of game I might enjoy. I played around a bit with it earlier and I think I may play about with the concept this weekend.
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My Grid game
I’ve been working on a grid game in Flash for Ages. That’s not quite right. It’s been on the go for ages, but I haven’t really touched it for ages. It’s been so long that I think i am going to have to rewrite the thing totally to get it back into my head. It was also written before Flash MX was released, so I can take advantage of some of the new features in there. I was thinking about trying to turn the game grid into a component, but I think that I might be trying to run before I can walk.
It’s basically a grid based game where you run around collecting keys to open particular doors and then collecting the objects that are in the room. A the moment it has a Harry Potter theme, as most of my completed games did (I had to pick something, and that ended up being it)
Anyway, the bit that really interested me was that I could have the whole thing be dynamic, and allow people to create their pwn levels. I managed that mostly, but never saw it through properly. I think that, now I know more about Flash, I’ll do a better job.
Anyway, here is as far as I got (except without the “input” movie.
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Playing about
//create a 10 by 10 movieclip in the library and export for AS as "mcBox"
var gridRows = 35;
var gridCols = 40;
var squareSize = 10;
var myWidth = gridCols*squareSize;
var limit = gridRows*gridCols*squareSize;
for(var i=0;i
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Interesting use of Flash
I was surfing the Manbottle site as I do occasionally, and came across this. It’s some sample 999 calls (the same as 911 in the US) which are totally idiotic. one of the interesting things that there is the option to view the files using the flashplayer, including subtitles. This will get around a lot of plugin variation issues and let the creators synchronise the subtitles to the souds. Plus it’s kind of amusing what some people consider a 999 prioity.
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Strange Memory Issue
I was working with some Flash files that someone had sent me. They included some runtime shared library objects. The problem was that when the files were played in IE, the memory usage just kept increasing (IE6, 6,0,79,0 player, win2k) The files were as simplified as possible, but it turned out that it was the path declared in the properties which were causing the issue. The swf was linked as “./lib/lib.swf” when I changed this to “lib/lib.swf” it all worked beautifully, without the “memory leak”
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Flash Depth Tracking
When I’m making an application, I always come up against having to track the current depth, so I can attach objects to the new depth. I’m just starting out on the whole oop path, but this seems to make it a no-no to have a variable to keep track of this. I stumbled across this post and I reckon it could be really useful.
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onEnterFrame not Working
I spent ages this afternoon trying to work out why an onEnterFrame script wouldn’t work. Neither would a setInterval script(my preferred method). Turns out it was the machine – I mailed the script to another machine and – hey presto – it worked beautifully. after a reboot, the script worked fine on the other machine too. one to remember for another time.
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Moock Book
I’m waiting for Moock’s book to arrive from Amazon, and I’m kind of excited. Aside from having a pleasingly alliterative name, it’s also THE BEST reference guide for Flash MX actionscript. I’ve decided to use the opportunity to try out an amazon associates link, so click to buy the book from Amazon:uk?us. If you do, I’ll earn a little money (not that I’m expecting to make a million :D)