Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation

Keith Peters

ISBN 10: 1590597915 / ISBN 13: 9781590597910

Published by APress, US, 2007

About this Item

This book is the 2nd edition of Keith Peters' best-selling ActionScript animation book, updated toActionScript 3.0-all of the code has been updated, andsome new techniques have been added to take advantage ofActionScript 3.0's new features, including the displaylist and new event architecture. The code can be usedwith the Flash IDE, Flex Builder 2, or the free Flex 2SDK. This book will teach you how to use FlashActionScript to move the objects in your movie, ratherthan letting Flash's tween engine do it for you. Thebenefit of this is smaller, more realistic, more dynamic,interactive movies that almost literally seem to comealive on your screen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation
• Publisher: APress, US
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590597915
• ISBN 13: 9781590597910
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Flash has long been one of the most approachable, user-friendly tools for creating web-based animations, games, and applications. This has contributed to making it one of the most widely used programs for creating interactive web content. With each new version of Flash, ActionScript, its built-in scripting language, has become more powerful and a little more complex, too. ActionScript, now at version 3.0, has significantly matured as a programming language, bringing power and speed only previously dreamed about to Flash-based animation, going far beyond traditionally used keyframes and tweens.

The material inside this book covers everything you need to know to harness the power of ActionScript 3.0. First, all the basics of script-based animation and setting up an ActionScript 3.0 project are covered. An introduction to object-oriented programming follows, with the new syntax, events, and rendering techniques of ActionScript 3.0 explained, giving you the confidence to use the language, whether starting from scratch or moving up from ActionScript 2.0.

The book goes on to provide information on all the relevant trigonometry you will need, before moving on to physics concepts such as acceleration, velocity, easing, springs, collision detection, conservation of momentum, 3D, and forward and inverse kinematics. In no time at all, you'll both understand the concepts of scripted animation and have the ability to create all manner of exciting animations and games.

About the Author

Keith Peters lives in the vicinity of Boston with his wife, Kazumi, and their daughter, Kristine. He has been working with Flash since 1999, and has co-authored many books for friends of ED, including Flash MX Studio, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the ground-breaking Flash Math Creativity. In 2001, he started the experimental Flash site, BIT-101 (BIT-101.com), which strives for a new, cutting edge, open-source experiment each day. The site won an award at the Flashforward 2003 Flash Film Festival in the Experimental category. In addition to the experiments on the site, there are several highly regarded Flash tutorials which have been translated into many languages and are now posted on web sites throughout the world. Keith is currently working full time doing freelance and contract Flash development and various writing projects.