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Custom Ease Builder in TweenMax/TweenLite

Mattias — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:21:42 +0000

Create your own custom easing equation:
http://blog.greensock.com/customease/

Flex Builder 3 problems on Mac OS X 10.6

Mattias — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:38:31 +0000

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) on my Mac I have had some problems with Flex Builder. The most irritating problem is that the right (and left) column that highlights class errors are not updating correctly.

I realised that this only happens if I use Flexbuilder on my external monitor. However … if I resize the window of Flex Builder it updates correctly. Really strange.

Solutions?

Fix smoothing bug on scaled bitmaps

Mattias — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:43:39 +0000

Every time you change the bitmapData source for a Bitmap you also need to set the smoothing property on your Bitmap to true (if you want the bitmap to use smoothing).

var bitmap : Bitmap = new Bitmap();
bitmap.smoothing = true;
trace(bitmap.smoothing); // true
bitmap.bitmapData = new BitmapData(320, 240);
trace(bitmap.smoothing); // false

Hexosearch – actionscript search engine

Mattias — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:53:25 +0000

I stumbled upon a this new search engine dedicated to Actionscript.
Pretty neat.

www.hexosearch.com

Effing busy

Mattias — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:46:45 +0000

I haven’t been able to post on the blog lately because I’ve been really busy lately making games.

But soon. Soon! Promise …

How to disable the HTML wrapper file in Flex

Mattias — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:51:28 +0000

Flexbuilder generates a HTML wrapper file by default when you run your projects. I usually turn it off while developing to save some time waiting on my browser to reload the HTML file. After disabling this setting, your application will be launched within the standalone flash player.

Open the project properties, and select Flex Compiler properties.

Uncheck Generate HTML wrapper file.

Force decimals with .toFixed()

Mattias — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:45:10 +0000

I have missed that AS3 have a built in support for fixed point notations. This means that you can choose the number of decimals you want to output. Great!

var num:Number = 7.31343;
trace(num.toFixed(3)); // 7.313
 
var num:Number = 4;
trace(num.toFixed(2)); // 4.00

Found at livedocs

Merging XML files

Mattias — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:11:21 +0000

My friend Fredrick at undefined-type.com blogged about a really smart (lazy) and easy way of merging xmlfiles.

Check it out here

I really miss text adventure games

Mattias — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:25:37 +0000

I made my first and only text adventure game in QBasic through MS-DOS (Yeah, it was the early 90s). The game was called Trapped and took place in a prison cell. Your job was to get out of the cell by moving bricks, looking in the mirror and talking to cellmates. It took me about two days to make the game and 30 seconds to play it.

I found a fun flash text adventure game through Big Spaceship: Think. Play it here.

I think the IPhone would be a great platform for text adventure games. Maybe I´ll make Trapped II some day. Maybe not.

Almost retro: Barefoot longjump & Hackysack

Mattias — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:21:09 +0000

I found these two games that I created for a flash game contest at Kirupa in 2004. Barefoot Longjump got 1st price. The highscore does not work but I might fix that later. Anyways … happy playing.