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The image gallery is a free download which can be used for personal or commercial projects. It supports the loading and display of images as well as SWF files. Each asset can contain a caption as well as be clickable as a link. The slideshow can be embedded at any size. Assets which are bigger than the slideshow's dimensions will automatically be scaled down to fit.
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A page takeover is an effect used by advertisers to present a product in an engaging way by breaking preconceptions on how we are used to seeing content on a web page. The effect is almost always accomplished with the use of Flash by creating an overlay which simulates regular HTML content but with added animations and sound to give the illusion of a website coming to life or even falling apart.
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One of the coolest features to come out of Flash Player 10's new 3D capabilities is an addition to the Graphics class, the DrawTriangles method.
Most Flash designers discover early on that distorting a DisplayObject is impossible through the Flash IDE. This is unfortunately still the case (3D notwithstanding), however by making use of a bit of Actionscript trickery involving DrawTriangles we can create display objects that can be distorted dynamically at run time. Pretty cool I reckon!
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As a follow up to my previous post titled “How to communicate between multiple Flash files with LocalConnection” I’m going to demonstrate a slightly more advanced way of using the LocalConnection object in Flash.
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Trigonometry is something any aspiring Flash developer should learn. It is the cornerstone of becoming better at manipulating graphics purely with code.
I am certainly not a math guru by any means. I often find myself having to flip through a book or dig through previous projects to find the formula for getting the angle of a vector or the distance between 2 points etc. So I have created an animated reference to trigonometry within the Flash coordinate space. This is very much for my own reference but I think others will find it useful.
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