2009 September | MadeByPi® Blog

Sep 20, 2009

Away3D

Posted by Mikea | Filed under Cool stuff, MadeByPi™ Labs, Technology

There have been a fair few updates recently at Away3D - a real-time 3D engine for Flash.

Most recently, a lovely new collection of Pixel Bender shaders for the Flash Player 10 version of the engine - be sure to check out the demos on their site.

Not only that, but there's the scene design and export tool - PreFab, an Air app for "creating top quality 3D content in Away3D". A must try.

Then, not too long ago, Away3D lite was released, a streamlined version of Away3D (25K) for Flash Player 10. Perfect for high-performance, small footprint projects.

As you've probably worked out you, can find out more on the Away3D site.

Sep 18, 2009

AS3 Java-style .properties parser

Posted by Mikea | Filed under MadeByPi™ Labs

properties

You might be familiar with .properties files if you've worked with ant or Java in general.

If not, in short they're text files containing name-value pairs, usually used for application or build configuration. They allow comments and property values split over multiple lines, with a \ line-end delimiter.

For a recent project I needed to be able to parse, in Flash, .properties files coming from a java-based cms - so made the PropertiesParser.

I'm making it available here, with a small example showing the parsing of a .properties files and reading values from the result.

I hope it comes in useful

Get the code

Sep 17, 2009

mmmmm, type

Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff, Design, Motion Graphics, Typography

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

Sep 14, 2009

Auto-generate SWC asset libraries with Apache Ant and the Flex SDK

Posted by Mikea | Filed under MadeByPi™ Labs

I recently needed to create a swc library containing a large number of classes with embedded assets, so set about creating an Ant build to do the hard work for me...
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Sep 9, 2009