Away3D is an incredibly complete, simple to use and powerful real-time 3D engine for AS3 (yes there are others, including Papervision). We’ve been playing with some 3D within AS3 for some time now, creating a complete pipeline from 3D application (Blender!) to Flash Pro CS5 and finally to Flash Player (or AIR). During all of this, I recently hit upon … Read More
Flash CS5 – 5005: Unknown error optimizing byte code
A quick post, as this issue has been covered in massive amounts of detail over at negush.net but this really is a doozy! Basically, if you have a LOT of code and/or library files being compiled into your project and then… poof… Flash drops this crazy error: ,line 1: Error 5005: Unknown Error optimizing byte code OK… what? If you … Read More
Skin Ink… a long road!
With the official announcement (and Twitter post, of course :-) the latest version of Skin Ink has been submitted for approval and testing… and it’s about time too! Everyone here has been working tirelessly on this latest version. I’m sure anyone who has worked on any project will have felt the way that everyone here has felt: When will it … Read More
Including SWC’s via Relative Path Instead of Full Path
I recently sent the current code and project files for a simple application to a fellow developer, so they could get to grips with some key points… I forget the specifics, but it doesn’t matter for the purposes of setting the scene :-) They received the ZIP file. Extracted it. Fired up the FLA. And everything seemed great until they … Read More
Embedding Fonts in Flash Pro
Something occurred to me just yesterday that, whilst we’ve had this solved for sometime, it took a LOT of figuring out, googling and otherwise smacking the keyboard in frustration. For anyone who has tried to embed a font into an AS3 project – or if you’ve tried and found this after searching Google – you can know it’s a pain … Read More