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Two Inertia Movements

Hey,
I recently had to deal with Inertia-Movements again and had a look for some older scripts to re-use. I found two which I quickly wanted to share. Inertia movement is an effect you may know from many galleries or navigations. It’s the “move your mouse left and the clip will slide smoothly to the right” – thing. The example above shows it as well – thanks to Danny for these great pictures.

The first script I’m going to show is used for infinite looping, means, the movement will not become slower as you reach the end of the clip. It rather works like “The more the mouse is away from the horizontal center the faster the movement is”, so having an infinite loop of thumbnails is pretty cool then. An example can be found here: Hugo Boss Gallery

The other version is like the opposite – the clip is limited to the left and to the right, which basically means: The more the clip gets to it’s “end” the slower the movement becomes. This effect was used on depotVisuals or the example above.

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“I will kill your Timeline Tween when changing my properties”

I stumbled upon some.. well, let’s say “feature” of handling Timeline-Tweens within the Flash IDE. The following “feature” might be somehow confusing and it’s a bit tricky to fix.

I’m talking of a Timeline-Tween which gets broken when changing the clip’s properties while tweening.

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How to first setup TweenLite v11

Hey,
as I recently had to tell someone how and why to use TweenLite v11 (or any other Tweening Engine in AS3) I wanted to share that two minutes conversation with you. I think there will be following some other articles about TweenLite here – i guess there will be more Q&A talks concerning specific animations / techniques.
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The finer Art of Loading (#2): It’s all about timing

Hey everyone,
in the last chapter we made it to load a SWF and unload it on demand. Let’s continue here and imagine that we’re having three SWFs, each of them having some content which should be shown on click. A typical usage would obviously be a Flash Website consisting of multiple SWFs. Read more »

Five holy Firefox-Plugins for Flash-Developers

You all may know the following conversations:

  • “Somehow I can’t see the Flash-File” – “Which Flash-Version do you’ve got?”
  • “The Loading-Bar takes ages” – “Your bandwidth is driven by a hamster?”
  • “I can’t see the changes you’ve made” – “Press Ctrl+F5″
  • “The image is missing, isn’t it?” – “Hmm, let me see.”

These questions often appear when customers call to tell me something doesn’t work properly. To avoid each of these topics I had a look for plugins to double- and triplecheck my Flashfiles before sending them. Here are my favourites to prevent worst-case-scenarios. Read more »

The finer Art of Loading (#1): Simple load & unload

This one-of-will-be-many-articles is covering the first steps of loading and unloading SWFs properly in Actionscript 3. The follow-up articles will discuss dynamical loading-managements, bulk loading and general questions about caching, the garbage collector and the likes. Read more »

Compile AIR Projects with FDT

An updated and extended version for FDT 4 and AIR 2 has been released!
AIR2 AND FDT4 (M3) – A DETAILED WALKTHROUGH

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Admitting that I was surprised pleasantly that even the official Powerflasher-Blog published an article about compiling AIR projects in FDT 3 I recently started to take the challenge and began with the first steps. Read more »

FDT Tutorial series pt.1

Hey everybody out there – this tutorial covers the first steps with Powerflasher’s FDT 3 showing how to setup it for Flash Player 10 and compiling the first Actionscript 3 project with it. Everyone familiar to FDT might be interested in the following tutorials in which I’m talking about Asset-Workflows, Library-Handling, Debugging with FDT, Best of Workflow-Tips and AIR-Compiling. So just come back in a couple of days if you like to. Read more »

Flash Preloaders in Highspeed-Ages

Preloading, Connecting to Server, Timeouts.. There might be some who still remember this and yes, there even might be some still preferring this to HQ-Youtube and Livestreams. Those should take a closer look at this plugin: Firefox Throttle. Read more »

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