Flash hacks 100 industrial-strength tips & tools

If you've ever seen an especially cool Flash effect on the web, gone straight to your trusty Flash book to find out how to do it, then turned away empty-handed--Flash Hacks is for you. This unique book offers a collection of expert Flash tips and tricks for optimization, creating interesting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bhangal, Sham (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly 2004.
Edición:First edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Foreword; Credits; About the Author; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Why Flash Hacks?; Who This Book Is For; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Getting the Code Examples Working; ActionScript 1.0 Versus ActionScript 2.0; Case-Sensitivity; Comments and Questions; Visual Effects; Fake Per-Pixel Transitions; Make the Pixels; Make Lots of Pixels; Control the Pixels; Create the Timers; Using the Effect; Extend the Effect; Final Thoughts; Per-Pixel Text Effects; Final Thoughts; Simulate Old Film Grain
  • Create the Film Grain BitmapUsing a Bitmap in Flash; Final Thoughts; Create SWFs from Animated GIFs; The GIF Animated Critter; Create the Animation Assets; Final Thoughts; Animate Photoshop PSD Files with Flash; Final Thoughts; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Fractals; Blowin' in the Wind: Simulate Tree Movement; Final Thoughts; Color Effects; Video Color Effects; The Boy Can't Dance; Color Coding; Color Video Transforms; Video Fade to Black and Fade to White; Transitions Over Time; Final Thoughts; A Custom Color Transform Class; An Object-Oriented Transformation
  • Create and Organize Custom SwatchesImporting Colors; Final Thoughts; Borrow Color Schemes from Nature; Final Thoughts; Simulate Sepia Effects; Creating a Sepia Effect in Photoshop; Reworking the Effect in Flash; Using the Sepia Effect in Static Graphics; Dynamic Sepia Effects with the Color Class; Drawing and Masking; Create Filled Circles Quickly at Runtime; The Code; Hacking the Hack; Create Synthetic Art; The Code; Final Thoughts; Create Seamless Tiles; Negative Space; Final Thoughts; Fill Areas with Patterns; Filling a Rectangular Area; Filling a Nonrectangular Area; Final Thoughts
  • Imitate EscherThe Divided Plane; Final Thoughts; Fix Alpha Property Inaccuracies; The Five Alpha Values that Result in No Error; Mirroring the _alpha Property; Avoiding Alpha Errors via Classes/Prototypes; Final Thoughts; Use Complex Shapes as Masks; Using Complex Masks; Interference Patterns and Ripple Effects; Final Thoughts; Feather Bitmap Edges; Feathering Bitmaps; Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap; Final Thoughts; Solve the Bitmap-Shift Bug; How Not to Fix It; How to Fix It (the Good Way); How to Fix It in Dynamically Loaded Files (the Effective Way)
  • A Page-Turn Effect (Exploit Symmetry and Masking)A Mathematical Hall of Mirrors; Page Turning; Final Thoughts; Animation; Smooth Scripted Motion; User-Actuated Movement (Breaking the onEnterFrame Monopoly); Final Thoughts; Time-Controlled Movement; The Code; Final Thoughts; Quick, Bandwidth-Efficient Character Animation; Hacky Wacky Walking; Final Thoughts; alt-Flash: Motion Graphics Alternatives; Processing; KoolMoves; Final Thoughts; Deja New Animations; Final Thoughts; Hacking The Matrix; Final Thoughts; Computer-Generated Character Animation; Automating Character Animation with Poser
  • Using Poser to Create Animation Directly