Posts Tagged ‘Actionscript 3’

Flag effect in ActionScript 3

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

What better image to use for a flag effect than an image by Derek Riggs (which you already have on your living room wall right? Not?)


Click on the flag !

Download sources: Flag Effect (744)
Anyway, in this example I’ve experimented with using perlin noise as a displacementmap, and overlaying the same displacement map for a lighting effect. The lighting effect was tweaked using a colortransform, and the falloff on the flag (the right side is much more affected by the wind than the left side) was realized by mixing the perlinnoise map with a gradient.Here is the complete example with sourcecode included: Flag Effect (744). Note that Example1.as to Example4.as should be run from the flashdevelop project nummero uno, while this example (example5) should be run from project nummero duo. Example 1 – 4 just experiment with the basics, and the last example puts it all together with documentation.

Visual Reflections in ActionScript 3

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
I migrated the actionscript 2 version of my reflection class some time ago, but hadn’t gotten to posting it yet. I managed to whip up some examples of this new as 3 version. It’s not as feature rich as the as 2 version due to some changes between as 2 and as 3, but just as easy to use.

 

Some features:

  • simple setup, just do addChild (new Reflection (myContent)); and you are done
  • respects masks, scaling, etc and automatically adjusts to the correct position
  • allows you to grab (live) bitmap data of the reflection for those times you only need a bitmap
  • can be updated manually or automatically
  • simple samples included

Download the sources and examples here: As3 Reflection (124)

NOTE: the examples are FlashDevelop projects. The security is set to network, so they won’t run locally unless you compile and run them once through flashdevelop (FlashDevelop will update your security settings while running).