Today Adobe has released the new Creative Suite 4 (CS4).
Adobe offers 6 different packages with different prices / applications included.
More info on Adobe Creative Suite CS4 page.
Showing posts with label programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label programming. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Adobe CS4 available for preorder
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Fantamercato 2008/2009
With Fantamercato you can manage your Fanta football with all Serie A team lists and statistics of previous season.
Additionally, you can create your fanta football team and manage your expenses.
This new version was improved with many new functionalities and bug fixes, to better manage your fanta football season.
Fantamercato is updated with all Serie A scores and statistics in the previous season.
Fantamercato 2008/2009 is available only in italian.
Purchase Fantamercato 2008/2009 for just 3.99 EUR.
More info about Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with Flashlite (english version)
More info about Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with Flashlite (italian version)
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Create you own home online
PlanningWiz is an Online Room Planner Software for Furniture Retailers and Manufacturers, Building Contractors, Realtors and more...
With this web based application you can build your apartments, creating rooms, walls and so on, and add your furnitures taken from multiple libraries.
Additionally, you can save, email and print your projects. Cool!
http://v3.planningwiz.com/
Flash player plugin required.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Travel Guides Vienna Euro 2008
Your mobile city guide for Vienna, Euro 2008 edition!
Vienna city guide for mobile phone with Flashlite 2.x (or better).
This city guide is ready for EURO 2008, UEFA European Football Championship.
Contains city maps, underground map, dozens of sightseeings and points of interest with descriptions and many other useful features.
No Internet or GPS connections required.
Available in english language.
Just for EUR 2.99 !
More info about Travel Guides Vienna Euro 2008 >
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Isometric games : 3d character animation test
In the past week I produced a simple animation to test with an isometric style game. My goal is replace my static characters in Metalwarriors with those that includes animations.
But I'm not really sure to do this mainly with for these reasons...
- creating animations for each character means spending lot of time: and how many actions I will do animate? Only a simple walk, or other actions, as fight, death, and so on? Creating each action means create "n" frames for 4 different directions.
- how many Kb these animations will take? This can be really slow downloading times...
I created this animation with Lightwave 3d starting from a 3d character, created as described in my 3d Tutorial: Modeling your first Anime Robot in 3d (italian translation here), then I animated with a simple walk cycle, rendered as separated frames in BMP file format. For a better result, I choose a 17 frames sequence (see preview).
Creating characters in 3d also for 2d bitmap based games has a great advantage: after created animation cycles for a single character, I can create the same cycles for all other characters, simply substituing the 3d models. Additionally, I can create separate animation frames and, by saving in 32bit color depth, I can have each single frame with a transparent background. This can be an advantage for test purposes, to check the optimal size of my bitmaps frames, to have good animations but not a wasting movieclips sizes...
After this process, I can import my bitmap sequences directly into Adobe Flash (name each frame as "animationCyle_001.bmp", "animationCyle_002.bmp"): Flash converts the frame sequence directly into the timeline, each bitmap into a separate frame.
So I can create a single movieclip for my character, and naming each first frame of each sequence into Flash timeline, I can access and play my animation cycles via actionscript.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Enterprise Applications
Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Games
These guidelines can be used for mobile game development and programming but also for web ad advergames.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
2007 Flash Lite Game Contest
via Biskero, I remember 2007 Flash Lite game contest , sponsored by Playyoo, Adobe and O'Reilly. Prizes for this year are:
1st Prize - A prize of chosen by the winner up to US$ 5,000 and sponsored by Playyoo.
2nd Prize - Adobe software licenses
3rd Prize - O’Reilly books
For more info, visit the contest website
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Flash 3d programming: Sandy3d
I know, this is not a real news, because this projects has started some years ago. But now (and in next weeks) I want start to study newer implementations, interfaces and possibilities given by my knowledges in flash developing and 3d modeling, rendering and animations, and use these skills together. So, browsing the web I chosed to try these APIs (they seems to be the best for flash developing). Above, some informations taken from Sandy 3d website :
Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 and now Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash.
The idea came in 2005 from the lack of possibilities to run 3D in Flash. It was also a way to solve the major problems of the other 3D engines available at that time :
- Lack of documentation or support.
- Abandoned projects.
- Exclusive and limited engine.
Sandy is now one of the possibilities to create some 3D content in Flash. Other projects came out since Sandy first releases, giving more choice to users.
This 3D engine main features are :
- Flash player 7 to 9 compatibility.
- Both MTASC and Macromedia compilers compliant for AS2 and Flash CS3 and FlexBuilder for AS3 versions.
- Several 3D primitives, allowing fast and parameterized object creation without any 3D modelisation knowledge.
- Advanced and easy object management allowing some fantastic possibilities during your creations (scaling, rotation, translation, tween, etc.)
- Advanced camera management ( rotation, motion on linear or bezier-curve path, movements, etc.)
- Complex object loading thanks to the .ASE and .WRL files parser , but also Collada and 3DS files for AS3, (files generated by several 3D object modeling packages such as 3D Studio Max or Blender)
- Material system to easily change your objects appearance. Several material are available allowing to create transparent faces, bitmap texture and video texture as webcam video stream.
- Managment of Flash filters bringing some very nice visual effects
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Updated my curriculum...
There are 2 languages available:
MY CURRICULUM IN ITALIAN and MY CURRICULUM IN ENGLISH
Can I help you? ;-)
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Flash development for Sony PSP
"The Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP™) is a leading handheld game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment.
A Flash-enabled device that supports Flash Player 6, the PSP™ enables consumers to play games, browse the web, watch movies, listen to music and more. Since its launch in Japan in December 2004, Sony has shipped more than 15 million PSP's™ worldwide, establishing its position as a new handheld entertainment platform around the world. Sony PSPs are available globally to consumers and can be purchased online or through retailers.
To get the Flash Player 6 installed on your Sony PSP, you must have the Sony PSP ROM update version 2.70 or later.
The Flash Player 6 is enabled only through the web browser so in order to view SWF files they can be either embedded in HTML pages (just like desktop web pages) or just viewed as standalone SWFS by specifying the target file path in the web browser."
More Resources:
Adobe website: Flash development for Sony PSP
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/psp.html
An interesting article from Flashdevices.net :
http://www.flashdevices.net/2007/12/what-do-you-do-with-flash-on-your-sony.html
Please post your additional flash development for Sony PSP resources here! :)
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