Good Usable RIA Applications in Flash and Silverlight
Flash and Silverlight allow developers to make amazing tools, they allow creative expression and they also are usually a bad user experience many times. Lots of that is changing as more applications...
View ArticleNew AS3 2D Physics Engine Box2DFlashAS3 Based on Box2D for C++
Another great new 2D physics engine for AS3 has been released called Box2dFlashAS3 that is based on the excellent kit Box2D for C++. It has been a busy year for physics engines in AS3. FOAM was...
View ArticleAS3 BulkLoader Useful Flash Asset Loading Kit by Arthur Debert
Found via Zeh, this great bulk loading kit for AS3 from Arthur Debert. AS3 Loaders are very useful, but when you have large projects there is always a pause and focus on loading scenarios and...
View ArticleAS3 Papervision 2.0 Alpha (GreatWhite)
Only a year after release Papervision is getting a major update to 2.0. Get it while it is hot from the SVN server on google code: http://papervision3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/branches/GreatWhite...
View ArticleFlash App Photo Editor Picnik Integrated with Flickr
Picnik is an excellent application that makes believers out of RIA skeptics made with Flash/Flex. Today Picnik is now integrated with Flickr bringing user friendly photoshop essentially to the...
View ArticleAS3 HTML to Flash Conversion Library – htmlwrapper
Interesting library for html to flash front end. Basically this runs off the HTML in your page to draw the same in Flash. I am sure there are great pitfalls in this but when controlled this could be...
View ArticleDegrafa for Flex Looking Pretty Sweet (AS3 and Commonizing Paths Graphics...
Just recently through the holidays Degrafa has made some great strides as a very cool SVG pathing and designers toolkit for Flex. I have to say some recent Flex apps have really looked good like...
View ArticleAS3 Flash Isometric Engine
Just got word of this great isometric engine similar to the Alternativa engine or zenbullets but with plans for open source. I checked out the demos and it looks well done and is pretty responsive....
View ArticleAS3 Flash 3D Engine SWFZ Source Code Goes Open Source
Jono is giving SWFZ to science and the open source devices. The SWFZ engine is one Flash 3D engine that took a different approach. It is a bit early in its technique used but the author at custom:media...
View ArticleMore Creative Flash AS3 Papervision 3D Games
Here are some really stylish and well done uses of Papervision 3D to make fun games. The people at Bloc recently launched Meta4orce, a unique interactive sci-fi TV show site with some great and...
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