Flash 10 - Astro available, some demos
May 17, 2008
The beta release of Flash Player 10, code named Astro, is now out on Adobe labs!
After download you can check out couple of simple demos I wrote using new features:
Spherical Mapping - rotating 3D globe with alpha support. This version runs in CPU, if it seems slow …
ThreePointGradient - a colorful gradient by specified three colors and points - the colorPickers are as well dragable, try moving and changing colors ( ! it’s not a build-in function of graphics API, but an example of pixel bender-shader rendering a fill … )
There’s not much information on the net - yet. Senocular has posted a tutorial of new features.
and here’s CJ’s demo with lightbeams !
May 27, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Here we go
package testi2_fla
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.filters.*;
import flash.geom.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.text.*;
import flash.utils.*;
dynamic public class MainTimeline extends MovieClip
{
public var tfield:TextField;
public var timing:Timer;
public var loader:URLLoader;
public var mc:Sprite;
public var rotX:Number;
public var rotY:Number;
public var rotZ:Number;
public var shader:Shader;
public var h:int;
public var w:int;
public var shaderFilter:ShaderFilter;
public function MainTimeline()
{
addFrameScript(0, this.frame1);
return;
}
public function mouseMove(param1:MouseEvent) : void
{
this.shader.data.lightsrc.value = [mouseX, mouseY, 0.48 * this.h];
return;
}
function frame1()
{
this.w = 600;
this.h = 300;
this.loader = new URLLoader();
this.loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY;
this.loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, this.onLoadEvent);
this.loader.load(new URLRequest(”hydra/SphericalMapping.pbj”));
this.rotX = 0;
this.rotY = 0;
this.rotZ = 0;
return;
}
public function doRotation(e:Event) : void
{
var _loc_4:Number;
var _loc_2:* = new Matrix3D();
this.rotX = this.rotX + 0.5;
this.rotY = this.rotY - 4;
this.rotZ = this.rotZ + 0.1;
_loc_2.appendRotation(this.rotX, Vector3D.XAXIS);
_loc_2.appendRotation(this.rotY, Vector3D.YAXIS);
_loc_2.appendRotation(this.rotZ, Vector3D.ZAXIS);
var _loc_3:* = new Array();
for (_loc_4 in _loc_2.rawData)
{
_loc_3.push(_loc_4);
}
this.shader.data.rot3D.value = [_loc_3[0], _loc_3[1], _loc_3[2], _loc_3[4], _loc_3[5], _loc_3[6], _loc_3[8], _loc_3[9], _loc_3[10]];
this.mc.filters = [this.shaderFilter];
return;
}
public function onLoadEvent(e:Event) : void
{
var _loc_2:* = new Bitmap(new MapImage(600, 300));
this.w = _loc_2.width;
this.h = _loc_2.height;
this.shader = new Shader(this.loader.data);
this.shader.data.imageSize.value = [this.w, this.h];
this.shader.data.rot3D.value = [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1];
this.shader.data.lightsrc.value = [this.w, 0, this.h];
this.shader.data.radius.value = [0.45 * this.h];
this.shader.data.center.value = [200 , this.h / 2];
this.shaderFilter = new ShaderFilter();
this.shaderFilter.shader = this.shader;
this.mc = new Sprite();
this.mc.addChild(_loc_2);
addChild(this.mc);
this.mc.y = 50;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, doRotation);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMove);
this.mc.filters = [shaderFilter];
return;
}
}
}
May 31, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Yes, that’s a very clever comment. Ok, You must be some Don Quijote fighting people who don’t share their code. Thanks for finding my code that interesting ! - by the way, it’s not necesserly to use this. that much !
… maybe I should make this a tutorial,
like for instance in function doRotation, how the Matrix3D class has been used for counting the spatial rotations, and how that’s passed to shader’s float3×3 parameter, so that it’s all counted once in actionscript, not pixel by pixel in shader code (sin & cos, heavy operations) resulting a much better performance
And the pbj - can you open that also ?