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Cool Effect: Create a Blurred Transparent Pause Screen
Overriding for Fun and Profit! One of the things I like about the designers I work with is when they come up with an idea that turns out to let me try something fun and clever. In this case, its … Continue reading
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Tagged as3, bitmap effects, bitmapdata, flash games, OOP, override, Tutorials
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Super-fast scrolling of huge Bitmaps
I seem to get a lot of projects that require scrolling backgrounds. Ususally they are reasonably sized backgrounds, that tile or repeat. And there are a bunch of good solutions to smoothly scrolling tiled backgrounds. But recently I got a game … Continue reading
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Tagged as3, backgrounds, bitmapdata, scrolling, transform matrix, UpdateAfterEvent
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AS3 Get Visible Bounds of Transparent Display Object
How do you get the height of the visible part of a movie clip or bitmap? I ran into a case last week where I needed to get the with of a masked object. The object was a scrollbar. And … Continue reading
Flipping A BitmapData Image
Here’s a handy code snippet for flipping the pixels of a bitmapdata, and ending up with a new bitmap data that is the mirror image of the original. function flipBitmapData(original:BitmapData, axis:String = "x"):BitmapData { var flipped:BitmapData = new BitmapData(original.width, original.height, … Continue reading
Make Super-Cool AS3 Particle Effects for Flash Games With BitmapData
This movie requires Flash Player 10 I’m a sucker for a good particle effect. They seem like magic to me and are one of the most fun parts of making a game. I recently stumbled upon a really efficient method … Continue reading
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Tagged as3, bitmap effects, bitmapdata, flash games, Games, OOP, Particle, Particle System, Perlin Noise, Tutorials
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