Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on Wii

2006-12-29 Thread Seb L
Don't speak too soon! http://aralbalkan.com/825 regards Seb Lee-Delisle http://sebleedelisle.com On 28/12/06, Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, good news. The buttons on the Wiimote give out key events. http://wiinintendo.net/2006/12/27/wiimote-d-pad-works-in-javascript-or-flash-games/ On

Re: [Flashcoders] onFrameReached {do something}

2006-12-02 Thread Seb L
why can't you just use this on the first frame : this.onEnterFrame = function(){ if(this._currentframe==30){ // do something } } cheers! Seb Lee-Delisle www.sebleedelisle.com On 02/12/06, Ray Chuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, afaik there's no such thing. If you want to, in

[Flashcoders] swf2Video

2006-11-23 Thread Seb L
Anyone know if this software is still being updated/supported? I've tried mailing them but no response. I need to get an upgrade that works with FP8. cheers Seb Lee-Delisle sebleedelisle.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem: Safari and dynamic loading?

2006-11-22 Thread Seb L
I've had this problem recently. I found it was an issue when the swf and the html file aren't in the same directory. Either put them both in the same directory, or give the full path in your filename. Let me know how you get along! Seb Lee-Delisle sebleedelisle.com On 22/11/06, Haydn [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash on the beach

2006-11-17 Thread Seb L
I also live in Brighton and I'll be there too! But then I am presenting a session on realtime 3D in Flash ... ;-) http://flashonthebeach.com/sessions/index.php?pageid=315 And here are my recommendations for the rest of the conference... http://sebleedelisle.com/?p=38 It's gonna be amazing,

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash on the beach

2006-11-17 Thread Seb L
a flashcoders beer night AKA the Flash on the Beach Main Party, Tuesday night, 8pm. :-) On 17/11/06, Pedro Furtado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good, let's have a flashcoders beer night :D lol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash on the beach

2006-11-17 Thread Seb L
what can i say? i'm the flash slut of sussex... :-) On 17/11/06, James Marsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn, I was just about to pimp your must see list, you've got your autopimp set too sensitive... ;) Seb L wrote: I also live in Brighton and I'll be there too! But then I am presenting

Re: [Flashcoders] odd _alpha arithmetic

2006-11-14 Thread Seb L
It's because _alpha is stored internally at 255 levels, so it's the dodgy floating point accuracy and conversion from the internal value to a percentage that causes the inconsistency. If it causes problems, I usually have a separate value for storing the current alpha. myClip =

Re: [Flashcoders] Weird movie corruption

2006-11-14 Thread Seb L
A couple of things to try... I've recently been getting VERY unpredictable results with JS/AS communication and I realised that security settings seem to be a bit weird... so the first thing to try is uploading it to a web server and see if it still happens there. Secondly, I would delete all

Re: [Flashcoders] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..?

2006-11-14 Thread Seb L
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seb L Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 11:33 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..? We did this at FlashCodersBrighton : http://www.flashcodersbrighton.org/wordpress/?cat=1 We used a mode7 style

Re: [Flashcoders] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..?

2006-11-13 Thread Seb L
We did this at FlashCodersBrighton : http://www.flashcodersbrighton.org/wordpress/?cat=1 We used a mode7 style technique. It was actually a bit complicated, but maybe I'll post a blog about it if enough people are interested? cheers! Seb Lee-Delisle http://sebleedelisle.com On 10/11/06,

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: 3D effect similar to OSX RSS Visualizer Quartz screen saver

2006-11-13 Thread Seb L
Hiya, we've built a similar texture mapped text effect on our new website, currently in beta. Here's an example : http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?p=18 It's actually quite complex to stretch text like that... it may be easier to just treat the text as always facing towards you, then there's no

Re: [Flashcoders] hitDetect and levels?

2006-10-31 Thread Seb L
hmmm interesting... ball.checkBricks is a method of the ball object? So it may be a scoping issue? If you're calling the checkBricks function from within the ball object you'd need to do a call on this.hitTest(brick0_0), rather than ball.hitTest(...). Try that first. Just a general comment,

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Justifying Flash 8 Content

2006-10-31 Thread Seb L
We've just sold two projects on FP8, the first because of it bitmap rendering capabilities, and the fact that we could use bitmap fills to stretch bitmap textures on 3D surfaces. Recently we've been using cacheAsBitmap, and also custom bitmap caching methods to massively increase the speed of

Re: [Flashcoders] hitDetect and levels?

2006-10-31 Thread Seb L
Oh and of course it's not good practice to refer to _root, but we'll take that on another time ;-) Really? I've seen it done in several books I have, so I assumed its ok. What are some of the possible errors that can happen with that? If you swf is loaded into another swf, it may cause

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically Distort Text?

2006-10-24 Thread Seb L
There are ways to do it but it's tricky. Here's an example on my blog : http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?p=18 You need to convert the text to a bitmap first, then you can do perspective distortions using the triangles method described here : http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?page_id=7 We wrote our

Re: [Flashcoders] ... client server flash dev

2006-10-06 Thread Seb L
It's not something that I personally would do, but then I generally avoid programming the back-end systems at all these days... :-) But yeah, SQL in the Flash seems wrong! Seb On 06/10/06, Guy Parton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, last night i received an email reviewing a very well

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash based desktop mate

2006-10-05 Thread Seb L
Zinc can do this and so can IceProjector, IIRC. On 05/10/06, Shane Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm looking into the possibility of building a desktop buddy type application in Flash. Basically it would need to be a full-screen projector file but with a transparent background that

Re: [Flashcoders] Rendering flash 8 to video

2006-10-03 Thread Seb L
I used swf2video, which worked really well. Not sure if they've updated for 8 though, last time i used it on Flash 7. On 03/10/06, Giles Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use some screen capture software (there are lots, but for example: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp) to capture

[Flashcoders] Euler angles...

2006-09-01 Thread Seb L
... any crazy geniuses out there know how to generate euler angles for a 3D vector? Or i guess to calculate the rotation angles between 2 3D vectors? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I am losing it now... :-) cheers! Seb ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Euler angles...

2006-09-01 Thread Seb L
objects? Alias On 01/09/06, Seb L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... any crazy geniuses out there know how to generate euler angles for a 3D vector? Or i guess to calculate the rotation angles between 2 3D vectors? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I am losing it now... :-) cheers! Seb

Re: [Flashcoders] Euler angles...

2006-09-01 Thread Seb L
and will answer pretty much every question you might have regarding these issues. Extremely helpful resource. Mark On 9/1/06, Seb L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simulated cable in 3D, and all I have a 3D plug attached to the end of the cable. My 3D plug object stores its rotation as 3 euler

[Flashcoders] Custom cacheAsBitmap with scale and rotate

2006-07-31 Thread Seb L
Hi guys, So cacheAsBitmap is great, but it re-renders the bitmap every time you scale or rotate. I remember seeing some code that you could apply to a movie clip and it manually cached a bitmap version of the clip, which was scaled and rotated as a bitmap... but I can't remember where... can

Re: [Flashcoders] Custom cacheAsBitmap with scale and rotate

2006-07-31 Thread Seb L
with scale and rotate If you are scaling and rotating a clip often, it wouldn't seem likely to be a good candidate for cacheAsBitmap in the first place. - e.d. On 7/31/06, Seb L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, So cacheAsBitmap is great, but it re-renders the bitmap every time you scale

Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha fade problem

2006-06-01 Thread Seb L
try this... myAlpha = ((alphaTime-(getTimer()-loadTime))/alphaTime)*100; On 01/06/06, Tony Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the following script will cause a MC to fade in. What would I change to make a MC fade out? onClipEvent (load) { loadTime = getTimer(); alphaTime =

Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha fade problem

2006-06-01 Thread Seb L
oh yeah, well spotted :) On 01/06/06, Adrian Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll also have to change... if (this._alpha100) { to if (this._alpha0) { On 6/1/06, Seb L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try this... myAlpha = ((alphaTime-(getTimer()-loadTime))/alphaTime)*100; On 01/06

[Flashcoders] FlashCodersBrighton.org

2006-05-31 Thread Seb L
Thought that UK Flashers may be interested in this! Seb -- Forwarded message -- From: James Marsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-May-2006 18:48 Subject: [BNM] Flash Coders Brighton To: Brighton New Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello BNM flash people! Just when you thought Brighton

[Flashcoders] FDT weirdness

2006-05-05 Thread Seb L
FDT has suddenly stopped doing its code parsing for new classes... anyone else had this? It's still parsing and checking on the pre-existing classes. Weird! Seb ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

Re: [Flashcoders] FDT weirdness

2006-05-05 Thread Seb L
of course, that's always the first thing to try! :-) On 05/05/06, Sönke Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to restart Eclipse? Cheers, Sönke -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seb L Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:35 PM

Re: [Flashcoders] FDT weirdness

2006-05-05 Thread Seb L
Yeah it seems to be, the new classes are just in the same folder as the old one! On 05/05/06, Sönke Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And is the path with your classes added to the classpath? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seb L Sent

Re: [Flashcoders] FDT weirdness

2006-05-05 Thread Seb L
Ah that'll be the one! doh! Thanks Michael. On 05/05/06, Michael Klishin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seb L wrote: FDT has suddenly stopped doing its code parsing for new classes... anyone else had this? It's still parsing and checking on the pre-existing classes. Weird! Check if your classes

Re: [Flashcoders] Good Math script for sheet movement when dragedontable

2006-04-03 Thread Seb L
yeah that's close...! What you need is a pendulum simulation, where the clicked point is the pivot, and the centre point is the weight (centre of gravity). I built something like this for www.jak2renegade.com, except there was gravity involved too. (check scene 2). Take out the effects of gravity

Re: [Flashcoders] Simulating a rope

2006-02-21 Thread Seb L
Thanks Josh, it was pretty much the same sort of techniques that have been presented here, only difference is the specularity which changes brightness depending on the angle of that segment of rope... I'll have to dig it out and update it - it'd be great to convert all the lines to curves huh?

Re: [Flashcoders] Simulating a rope

2006-02-21 Thread Seb L
-- Andreas Weber motiondraw.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Seb L Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:50 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Simulating a rope Thanks Josh, it was pretty much

Re: [Flashcoders] Is there a solution for in-IDE testing of local and remote swf files

2006-02-21 Thread Seb L
Have you tried luminicBox? http://osflash.org/luminicbox.log Aral at OSFlash introduced it to me last week, and I'm just getting to grips with it now. It uses a local connection to pick up data from any swf running on your machine. Looking really good for me so far, I'll let you know how I get

Re: [Flashcoders] Simulating a rope

2006-02-20 Thread Seb L
We built one for Jak2 a couple of years ago - http://www.jak2renegade.com(click on the crate on the first scene). If there's enough demand, I'll dig out the source code and blog it somewhere. cheers Seb On 20/02/06, Luca Candela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, how do I simulate a rope in

Re: [Flashcoders] Sandy 0.2, a 3D API for Flash

2006-01-27 Thread Seb L
Looks really interesting, and definitely something I'd like to get involved in. I've already built a 3D library in Flash, couple of examples on www.pluginmedia.net but I'm building more as we speak... Seb On 26/01/06, Paul Neave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to announce Sandy 0.2 on behalf