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Final version on Geometry Arena published on NewGrounds. Built...

flashdailyexpert — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:55:00 +0100

Final version on Geometry Arena published on NewGrounds.

ARE2D (animation render engine) is a set of classes to create...

flashdailyexpert — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:59:43 +0100

ARE2D (animation render engine) is a set of classes to create GPU or Bitmap animations. It has classes for GPU animation sprites, textfields and collision tests.

Source: AS3GameGears

Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes (2012-02-22) Flash Player...

flashdailyexpert — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:41:00 +0100

Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes (2012-02-22)

Flash Player “Cyril”

Following the Flash Player 11.2 release, Adobe plans to do another release, code-named “Cyril”, which is targeted for a release in the second quarter of 2012. This release focuses on enabling features and functionality key for the gaming market, as well as addressing popular feature requests from developers.

Some of the features being planned for this release include the following:

Keyboard input support in full-screen mode
Improved audio support for working with low-latency audio
Ability to progressively stream textures for Stage 3D content
LZMA compression support for ByteArray
Frame label events

Flash Player “Dolores”

Adobe is planning an additional Flash Player release in the second half of 2012. Code-named “Dolores”, this release focuses on enabling features and functionality for the gaming market, as well as improvements for general Flash Player use cases.

Some of the features planned for this release include the following:

ActionScript workers (enables concurrent ActionScript execution on separate threads)
Support for advanced profiling
Support for more hardware-accelerated video cards (from 2005/2006) in order to expand availability of hardware accelerated content
Improved ActionScript performance when targeting Apple iOS
Performance index API to inform about performance capabilities of current environment
Release outside mouse event API

Flash Player “Next”

While Adobe is working on releases for 2012, including 11.2 and the subsequent 2012 release, we are also modernizing the Flash Player code base in order to ensure that the Flash runtimes meet the needs of developers over the next five to 10 years. This work is referred to in this document as Flash Player and ActionScript “Next”.

This work includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Refactoring and modernizing the current core Flash runtime code base
Work on the ActionScript Virtual Machine
Updates to the ActionScript languageAdobe® Flash® White Paper 6

The primary goal of this work is to provide a modern implementation of the core Flash runtimes and the ActionScript Virtual Machine in order to significantly improve script execution performance and provide a foundation on which Flash can move forward over the next decade.

Currently, initial Flash runtime releases that result from this work are planned for 2013.

[ Full document here ]

Stage3D Developer Lab: Using webcam to background on...

flashdailyexpert — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:20:14 +0100

Stage3D Developer Lab:

Using webcam to background on Stage3D

Source coded included.

Stage3D Away3D Lab: Audio visualisation project: boids,...

flashdailyexpert — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:19:32 +0100

Stage3D Away3D Lab:

Audio visualisation project: boids, responsive/reactive to the music with music scrub bar.

Monolith - Japan Agency website. Flash Player 11, Stage3D.

flashdailyexpert — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:11:00 +0100

Monolith - Japan Agency website.

Flash Player 11, Stage3D.

Away3D 4.0 Beta Examples: Load Object Character Animation Load...

flashdailyexpert — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:56:00 +0100

Away3D 4.0 Beta Examples:

Note: For each demo, you can view and download the source by right clicking anywhere in the view and selecting “View Source”.

[ Source - Infinite Turtles ]

Genome2D Toturials: Part #1 - Getting started Part #2 -...

flashdailyexpert — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:59:16 +0100

Genome2D Toturials:

More Unity3D to Flash conversions from Slavomir Durej

flashdailyexpert — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:26:05 +0100

More Unity3D to Flash conversions

from Slavomir Durej

Away3D 4.0 Beta released “We are pleased to announce that...

flashdailyexpert — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:24:00 +0100

Away3D 4.0 Beta released

“We are pleased to announce that the release build of Away3D 4.0 Beta has finally arrived! What with all the action and reaction of the last few weeks and months, its been a tough time for everyone at Away3D and we appreciate the patience and resilience of everyone involved, none more so than all you users out there.”

[ More info ]

Bullet Sky - Stage3D, 60fps, Flash Player 11. [ Play desktop...

flashdailyexpert — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:17:50 +0100

Bullet Sky - Stage3D, 60fps, Flash Player 11.

[ Play desktop version ]

[ Bullet Sky running on iPad2 in 1024x768 ]

“Gods Warriors”3D real-time MMORPG made with Flash...

flashdailyexpert — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:04:00 +0100

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

“Gods Warriors”
3D real-time MMORPG made with Flash Player 11.

Release date: (soon)

Source: JoyeGame

Brass Monkey is video game console that uses smartphones as...

flashdailyexpert — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:58:25 +0100

Brass Monkey is video game console that uses smartphones as controllers and any screen with a web browser as the main display.

Brass Monkey provides a free SDK (software development kit) that lets developers create games with similar features to traditional consoles (XBox, PS3, Wii, Wii U, etc.) using familiar tools for creating Web based games.

[ Get Flash / Stage3D SDK ]

ShiVa Flash 11 engine preview Some exciting news from ShiVa...

flashdailyexpert — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:15:27 +0100

ShiVa Flash 11 engine preview

Some exciting news from ShiVa developers:

“We are working for some months on the ShiVa Flash 11 engine. Most of the hard work is now behind us. I wanted to start sharing with you some demos:

“Fire” demo:
- lightmapped environment
- per pixel dynamic lighting (point light)
- spherical texture mapping (on the ball)
- particles

“SimpleProjector” demo:
- lightmapped environment
- vertex colors (on the ball)
- projected textures

“MeshMorphing” demo:
- dynamic mesh deformation
- per pixel normal mapped specular lighting (directional light)

All samples have been exported “as-is” from ShiVa and injected in the UAT in order to create the SWF and HTML files.

Note: Engine initialization time is long and your browser may look like “frozen” during 10-20 seconds.

More demos to come, including GPU skinning, advanced shaders, render to texture, etc.”

[ More info about ShiVa Flash 11 engine ]

Car visualizer. Made using Stage3D and Flare3D. Customize your...

flashdailyexpert — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:57 +0100

Car visualizer. Made using Stage3D and Flare3D.

Customize your car, explore it from all the angles, choose the material and color you want, fit the rims to your design and get going! Take it for a spin!

Made by Plus360Degrees.

Unity Technologies Releases Unity 3.5 Unity 3.5 update provides...

flashdailyexpert — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:00 +0100

Unity Technologies Releases Unity 3.5

Unity 3.5 update provides a long list of additions and improvements:

Effects
New in Unity 3.5, the highly optimized Shuriken particle system provides artists and programmers with complete control over particle-based visual effects. Shuriken is a curve and gradient-based modular editor, with hierarchies and sequencing capabilities that allow for many particle systems to stay synchronized.

Pathfinding and Obstacle Avoidance
Improvements to AI provide accurate pathfinding along complex pathways and natural movement through crowds. Game developers can bake navigation data in the editor and let Unity’s high-performance path-finding and crowd simulation take over at runtime.

Lighting and Rendering
Developers can create jaw-dropping visuals with linear space (gamma correct) lighting and HDR rendering, and render them faster than before with Unity 3.5’s brand new multi-threaded renderer.
Also new to Unity 3.5, light probes add life and realism to lightmapped scenes without the high cost of typical dynamic lights. The addition of light probes to Unity’s lighting system allows for baked lighting on characters and other dynamic objects.

New Platforms
Unity 3.5 supports Native Client as a new deployment platform. Native Client allows for near native speeds within the Chrome browser, without the need for installing the Unity Web Player. Unity 3.5 also ships with the preview release of the Flash deployment add-on, which has already been used by 50,000 developers.

Performance Improvements
Unity 3.5 includes a completely re-written integration of Umbra’s occlusion culling system. The result is incredibly fast and works with terrains and dynamic obstacles such as doors. When combined with Unity’s new built-in level-of-detail support, it gives large-scale games the performance boost that they need.

Better Collaboration Tools
The Asset Server license, Unity’s add-on for teams and collaboration, has been enhanced with new features that add greater performance and flexibility. The addition of Unity’s cache server dramatically speeds up collaboration on projects of all sizes, and a new developer API for third-party version control solutions, such as Subversion and Perforce, allows larger teams to work more efficiently. To reflect these changes, the product has been renamed the “Team License,” and made available as an add-on for all Unity users.

Additional Improvements
The update includes other improvements such as a new GPU profiler, a fully pluggable Social API to implement social gaming, and low-level audio buffer access to create music games, and directional lightmaps support to name but a few. For a complete list of additions and improvements, please visit http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new.

[ Download Unity 3.5 ] [ What’s new ]

[ Adobe Flash Player and Developer Preview ]

New blog section launched: Stage3D Developer Resources

flashdailyexpert — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:50:52 +0100

New blog section launched:

Stage3D Developer Resources

GeometryArena game on Genome2D(web, desktop, iOS,...

flashdailyexpert — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:51:00 +0100

GeometryArena game on Genome2D
(web, desktop, iOS, Android)

From Peter Stefcek:

“Whats more I wanted to build an universal platform game, so it runs smoothly across all the avialable devices from web, desktop, iOS to the oldest Android phone possible. And I actually did it.

And yes it runs smoothly even on archaic mobiles when we talk about AIR such as Nexus One or HTC Desire, I am not going into detail but once Stage3D is available on mobile you will see and I am hoping for benchmarks all over the place”

AngryBirds officially on Facebook Flash Player 11 + Stage3D +...

flashdailyexpert — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:53:00 +0100

AngryBirds officially on Facebook

Flash Player 11 + Stage3D + StarlingFramework

[ Play AngryBirds on Facebook ]

[ Rovio Chooses Flash Player 11 with Support for 3D Graphics ]

[ Flash Powered Angry Birds Finally on Facebook ]

[ CNN - Angry Birds slingshots onto Facebook ] video

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Official movie game, made with...

flashdailyexpert — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:51:22 +0100

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Official movie game, made with Flash Player 11 (Stage3D) and Away3D

[ Play game ]