A really nice game found on gamereclaim website : AstroFlyer

You drive a spaceship in a vector environment. There’s not more to say, just try it!

Mr Doob and Román Cortés released an impressive as3 demo of a voxel head. It is a bit heavy (500Kbits), but rendering is sharp and smooth.

Voxel is a « volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space » (Wikipedia).
Voxel is usually used to display landscape or 3d medical data.

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The promising and impressive russian 3D engine is available to download at this adress http://alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/. Usage is free of charge for personal non profit and you must register to download the swc files.

Demos (flash player 10):

API Documentation:
http://help.alternativaplatform.com/en/client/package-summary.html

And tutorials:
http://docs.alternativaplatform.com/dashboard.action, but still written in russian for the moment. It doesn’t matter : AS3 language is international!

Let’s try this engine and compare it with Papervision and Sandy 3D (which are open-source).

Thibault Imbert has just released a new book on actionscript 3.0 in french : « Pratique d’actionscript 3″.

At first, his book was written to be published by O’Reilly but is finally published on the web under creative common licence.

In the 1100 pages he develops events, garbage collector, sockets, bytes arrays, sounds and more and more and more. It’s a really huge work.

Thibault is famous for his blog bytearray, and his work on wiiflash, alive pdf, gif player…

You can get a pdf version here : http://pratiqueactionscript3.bytearray.org/. A paper version will be available soon.

In my last project I lost some time just to set a textformat to a simple textfield. The font was well linked in the librairy, but the textformat (particularly the font) didn’t apply to the textfield.

I found the reason : flash renames bitmap fonts and adds the suffix : _SIZEpt_st.

- Verdana becomes Verdana_12pt_st
- Arial becomes Arial_12pt_st
- etc.

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My company launched 2 weeks ago, the new Fauchon website : www.fauchon.com.
Still in french for the moment, it will be translated in other languages soon.

Fauchon is a famous Parisian delicatessen and one of the world’s leading gourmet food and specialty companies.

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My first Papervision project is online, yyyeeaaahhh!!!

With my company, I’ve developped the new Diesel Factory website. Now you can customize your own fragrance bottle and watch the result live in 3d.

Have a look at : http://www.diesel-factory.com.
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In Papervision, the 3D Objects are defined in Collada files. Collada files are just XML files with a specific DTD (or schema). In consequence, colladas inherit the same qualities and defects as XML. One of the main defect is the file size which can be a major problem if you’re doing an online application.

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Here it is, the Diesel Fragrances website is online. In fact it’s been a few weeks now but I didn’t have any time to talk about it on my blog.

I did it with my company Megalos and I was the lead developer on this big international website.

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In this little tutorial, I’ll show you how to connect to the Flickr Service in actionscript3.

Here’s the demo

First of all, you’ll need :

- a Flickr account

- a Flickr API Key

- the Adobe as3flickrlib

- the Adobe as3corelib

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