Max The Rocket » AS3

TSN Broadcast Museum

Max The Rocket — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:39:32 +0000

This is an interactive TSN Broadcast Museum exhibit for the Hockey Hall of Fame. The exhibit is on the history of TSN’s hockey broadcasting. The project combines video, audio and images in a 3D interface. I used Papervision3D for the 3D interface and coded everything in Actionscript 3. The exhibit is controller by gesture recondition. I didn’t have to implement the gesture recondition technology myself, it was already in place. i just had to work with basic mouse events. But the gesture recodnition system is just awesome.

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Playing Around with Augmented Reality

Max The Rocket — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:47:49 +0000

With all this augmented reality hype I decided to try it out by doing an experimental project. What I ended up building is was 6 3D cubes animated to music following the AR (Augmented Reality) marker in 3D world. You can view the project here but you will need to print out the marker (or go to http://maxtherocket.com/marker.png on your iPhone) and you also need a webcam. So once you print out the marker (cut out the marker so the paper doesn’t bend as much) point your webcam on the marker and launch the project. The music will start playing once the application can recognize the marker and the cubes will dance around in the 3D world.

For this project I’ve used the following AS3 libraries:
FLAR Toolkit
FLAR Manager
Papervision 3D

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Burn The Books 08

Max The Rocket — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:28:17 +0000

A website for an end-of-school party at The Guvernment. I had to program an animated flame in flash that used only one graphic to create a dynamic flame effect.

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Revolution 2009

Max The Rocket — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:46:39 +0000

Another web site for 4D Events‘ annual all ages party at The Guvernment. The most challenging part of this website was to create a 3D ball, with reflections, rendered live inside flash.

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I had to fake the ball reflections by making a enviromental map with the reflection and moving the dummy light used for the enviromental map. I did the background of the website in 3Ds Max, I got the idea from Eagle Eye movie, the room where the main computer was:

Ontario Craft Brewers – Caps Game

Max The Rocket — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:10:26 +0000

A flash based game created for the Ontario Craft Brewers. The game play consists of flicking 30 different beer caps into a beer glass. Each beer cap represents a different brewery, which is a part of the Ontario Craft Brewers association. Have fun!

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I coded the whole game in AS3. I used Papervision3D for the spinning beer caps, just for the spinning animation. I had to make my own “3d engine” for sizing down the beer caps when they “fly away” from you. I used Remoting to take care of the Leaderboard.

Flash AS3 – Double Click Not Working

Max The Rocket — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:47:16 +0000

There are 2 secrets to get double click working in AS3. The first one is not really a secret if you read the documentation. The second one had me scratching my head for a few hours. So here they are:

1. set doubleClickEnabled to true

button.doubleClickEnabled = true; button.addEventListener( MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, doubleClickHandler );

2. You must set the doubleClickEnabled to any MovieClips inside the Button/MovieClip listening for the double click event. If the MovieClip/Button contains only shapes or text that’s fine, the double click will work without the second step.