Pausing the RoboDemo Movie while Playing the A ...

Pausing the RoboDemo Movie while Playing the Animation
Pausing the RoboDemo movie while the animation plays is easy; you simply instruc …

Bringing cinematic shots to the web

Bringing cinematic shots to the webWeb animations and interactive web games help you create immersive environments that engage audience …

Setting the Stage – Bringing cinematic s ...

Bringing cinematic shots to the web – Setting the Stage
Before directors can film a scene, they must set up their characters and …

Camera moves – Bringing cinematic shots ...

Bringing cinematic shots to the web – Camera moves
Now that you’ve got the actors laid out, you are ready to design a “mu …

Using the Toon Boom Studio™ importer for Mac ...

Using the Toon Boom Studio™ importer for Macromedia Flash MX
Now that you have maximized using Toon Boom Studio™ by creating cinema …

Scripting the dialog in Macromedia Flash MX

Scripting the dialog in Macromedia Flash MX
The script that plays back the text and the beeping in the dialog box consists of two parts …

Bringing cinematic shots to the web – Ha ...

Bringing cinematic shots to the web – Happy trails
We’ve come to the end of our exploration of the creation of cinematic, i …

Creating 3D Classes with ActionScript 2.0

Creating 3D Classes with ActionScript 2.0This article describes how to create 3D effects in Macromedia Flash using a class-based progra …

Animation in Macromedia Flash – Squash a ...

Animation in Macromedia Flash: Squash and Stretch
Squash and stretch is a traditional animation technique that animators commonly use t …

Creating real-time 3D objects with Macromedia ...

Creating real-time 3D objects with Macromedia Flash MX dynamic drawing tools
For several years, many users have tried to create 3D effe …

Matrices and matrix multiplication

Matrices and matrix multiplication
Matrices come in many forms: row, column, rectangular, square, diagonal, and so forth.. For the purp …

Macromedia Flash MX dynamic drawing basics

Macromedia Flash MX dynamic drawing basics
New to Macromedia Flash MX is the ability to draw lines, curves and area fills using ActionS …

ActionScript that renders the 3D objects

 View the ActionScript that renders the 3D objects (in a new browser window).
function RenderScene() { i = 0; while (i <= lin …

3D ActionScript

3D ActionScript
With all of the background information out of the way, it is time to begin building our 3D engine. In the example FLA f …

Review of finished 3D movie

Review of finished 3D movie
Here’s what the final movie looks like with some sample 3D objects:

Move your mouse over the movie t …

3D performance considerations

3D performance considerations
You’ve got the code you need to get started on your own projects. Now here’s some tips and th …

Overview of ActionScript 2.0

Overview of ActionScript 2.0
ActionScript has been rewritten from the ground up based on the ECMAScript 4 specification. Most noticeabl …

Doing Quaternion Math

Doing Quaternion Math
If you’ve spent any time looking for ways to create 3D objects or scenes you’ve probably encountered …

Constructing 3D Classes

Constructing 3D Classes
This section describes how to construct classes that you can use to create 3D objects and environments in Flash …

Putting the Pieces Together

Putting the Pieces Together
With all of the classes written, you can now create a FLA that renders a simple 3D scene. In the spirit of …