AS3 Particle Engine Demos

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I've been a motion graphics dev (Flash) for about 6 years, and last year the new language AS3 was released, and it's hugely different to AS2 which I am used to.

I've been putting off learning it until now, but over the weekend I knocked up a particle engine in AS3.

The power is insane compared to AS2, and now it's moving more towards being a bitmap (pixel) pusher rather than a vector environment. The advantage of this is SPEED.

Check this out...

http://rumblesushi.com/AS3/star_mayhem.html - pushes 6000 multicoloured particles with smoke effects at 60fps on my computer, no problem.

http://rumblesushi.com/AS3/woods.html - the same particle engine used for image manipulation.

http://rumblesushi.com/AS3/gb2.html - click on the box with your mouse to focus it, then keep pressing the RIGHT arrow key to ramp up the particles to a couple of thousand. First person to guess who it is, is a really cool guy.
 
Pretty cool. I haven't use Flash in awhile. Probably like 4 years. Never was too good at the movie rendering I rather program in Action Script anyway. Are they or have they released Adobe Flash CS3 yet? I know they just announced Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3.
 
Hey Evil, what do you mean by "Never was too good at the movie rendering I rather program in Action Script anyway" ? :)

And yes, CS3 = AS3.

AS3 was first implemented in CS3, before that it was AS2 in Flash 8. CS3 was released last year, but only a few days ago did I brave trying to tackle AS3, I was kind of in an AS2 comfort zone.

AS3 is so so different, a much bigger difference than AS1 to AS2. It's more like C++ now, and really geared towards OOP rather than procedural.
 
i no absolutely nothing about that stuff, but i checked out your link and that was some cool stuff you did.
 
evilxyardxgnome;1845529; said:
Meaning I had more fun writing the action script then making the animation work. Flash gave me a headache. Plus I feel Flex pwns Flash anyhow haha.
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I wasn't sure what you meant, because for example I use AS for everything, ie all the animation and motion, Flash is more or less a programming environment now, you won't be able to do much if you can't program.

Also Flex doesn't own Flash at all, Flex is simply an AS3 SDK. It's like a barebones version of Flash, without the timeline and a lot of other features.

But if you want to learn AS3, then Flex would be absolutely fine, and more importantly - free :)

You can download the Flex SDK free from Adobe, then download the FlashDevelop open source IDE, also for free.
 
What kind of stuff do you create with CF? Are you pretty much a web based developer?

Do you have anything to show that you've done in AS? Presumably AS3 in flex?
 
Nah I have only done a little bit on my own. Trying to learn it haven't touched it in years though. CF is what I mainly use other than Javascript and HTML. I am apart of a division of the company that I work for that created a Policy Management application for a Workmans Comp Insurance company.
 
Cool!

I went to to 70.000 (@3 frames per second whaha :p) so I could see the picture quite clear, but I still have no idea who it :( Maybe bush? (second thought, no the ears are to big)
 
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