Posts under “Actionscript 3”
AS3 Basic Tile Mapping ala Final Fantasy
Well it seems that one of the most popular posts I have is about Final Fantasy IV Online. Unfortunately that project is not alive at this time. So I thought I'd throw some AS3 goodness out into the void for people to play with and download.
This is a tile-based map display engine with fairly snappy scrolling. It currently allows for two layers - a set of base tiles, and a set of overlay items. The overlay items have pure magenta in their graphic which gets set to transparent thanks to the...
SoundMixer.computeSpectrum + Microphone?
This weekend I got the idea to try creating a chromatic tuner in AS3 using input from the Microphone and SoundMixer.computeSpectrum. According to the Adobe livedocs:
“The SoundMixer class contains static properties and methods for global sound control in the SWF file.”
This however does not seem to be fully the case. There is a caveat in computeSpectrum docs stating “this method cannot be used to extract data from RTMP streams”, but it doesn't say anything...
Font Embedding in AS3 : Lessons Learned
I have spent some time actually working with font embedding in AS3 and gone a little beyond the other simple examples you will see. While there may be several posts about embedding fonts in AS3, I have yet to see any real detailed information along with things to be aware of. If you have yet to see any of the basic examples you can read this post by Marcos Weskamp. Yes, it really is that simple to embed fonts now -- at least, on the surface it is. Let us dive down a little deeper. The...
My name is Mike Johnson, though many know me as exorcyze. I have been in love with programming
for over 25 years and use Adobe Flash for most of my personal experiments. I enjoy sharing
knowledge and study almost anything. Most of my professional work is in Actionscript, C#.Net and PHP.
