Panoramic Video Papervision3D

Pleased to announce I have now pretty much mastered papervision, learning it - in my opinion the best way possible - by using it on a real project. Have rebuilt the video player for panoramic video no longer using displacement maps inside flash but papervision materials, primitives and camera manipulation techniques. I bought tondeur's papervision essentials - anyone wishing to learn PV3D should do the same it makes things nice and easy. I had to delve right into the works of the debug camera and make some tweaks though to achieve what was needed. The player will be launched very soon and brings a much higher quality, performance and from a flash application point of view is now split up into properly separated AS3 classes.

Blogger in Flash

Have recently created a flash module that renders out blogger posts for a new client. This extracts the blog from blogger using simplepie and spits out a name and value pair data string for flash urlloader. Then inside flash the images and text are loaded into dynamically created textfields. The clever part is I measure and monitor the load of the images using a loader and textfield.getImageReference() - I extract the Image ID's in the field using a string split very similar to a regExp. And when the image is loaded I wrap a specially measured linespacing textformat around the img tag in the textfield htmlText, based on the loaded image's pixel height. Subsequently I add consecutive blog posts underneath in a handbuilt scroller pane which scrolls with a handbuilt Scroller using nice Tweenlite easing.

Galaga Flash AS3 Remake

Here is a little wee screenshot of the Galaga remake game I recently made for a client. You can play the game on my folio site...