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This book is a compilation of advanced ActionScript 3.0 animation techniques for any user creating games, user interaction, or motion control with ActionScript. It's a compilation of topics that follow on from the author's earlier book, Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move, and things that became possible in the most recent version of Flash: Flash Player 10. This book covers a diverse selection of topics that don't necessarily lead one into the other. You don't need to start with Chapter 1 and read it cover to cover. Just start with any chapter that looks interesting and jump around as you see fit. In this book, you'll find chapters on advanced collision detection, artificial intelligence and steering behaviors, isometric projection, using the camera and microphone for input, 3D, and much, much more.
The book is also more experimental in nature. The techniques shown here might not be the best way to do things, but they should work well and get you started in your own efforts to achieve a perfect implementation. In fact, many of the chapters can be seen as introductions to very complex topics that could fill a whole book by themselves. Many of these subjects have been extensively covered elsewhere, but not necessarily targeted for Flash or ActionScript 3.0. So it took a fair amount of work to pull the data together and get it all working and explain it all clearly in ActionScript. This book will inspire you to find out about subjects that you might not have considered before, acting as a springboard into your own research into the possibilities of ActionScript 3.0.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
- Leverage Flash 10 3D, the new drawing API commands, and Pixel Bender
- Create isometric worlds for games
- Construct powerful artificial intelligence routines including pathfinding, steering, and flocking behaviors
- Use numerical integration for real world physics effects
- Build advanced collision detection routines for more accurate simulations
Summary of Contents
- Advanced Collision Detection
- Steering Behaviors
- Isometric Projection
- Pathfinding
- Alternate Input: The Camera and Microphone
- Advanced Physics: Numerical Integration
- 3D in Flash 10
- Flash 10 Drawing API
- Pixel Bender
- Tween Engines
About the Author
In 2001 he started the experimental Flash site, BIT-101 (www.bit-101.com), which strives for a new, cutting edge, open source experiment each day. The site recently 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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation (Paperback)
If you have read Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation and want more details then this is a great book.This book often references the Foundation book so if you do not have it handy this book could be quite confusing. I really like the book but in terms of topics it is very scattered. In contrast the Foundation Book is very focused and each chapter builds clearly to others presented later. The second chapter introduces steering behaviour which leads to a later chapter on pathfinding but that is as far as the connections go. In fairness the topic is rather diverse once you have covered the basics (in the Foundations book.) My suggestion would be to check out the Foundation book first. The writer's style is something I like in both books. He invites you to play around with the lessons in every chapter. I would also recommend checking the table of contents to ensure that if you buy the book you are likely to use more than one or two chapters.
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This review is from: AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation (Paperback)
Overall it is a very useful book, however, it missing some important files and some samples contains Flex code.So if you are good at problem solving, it can be a very good animation book for you.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Advanced but,
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This review is from: AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation (Paperback)
This book is okay, but did not actully complete the advanced knowledge to examples on daily life needs. Which means the reader has to figure out how to apply it, which might not be easy. If you want to make a rotating carousel, for example, if you don't want to attach the photographs with XML, because you just want to have a single SWF file to send to a friend at the end, how else do you do that with action script 3.0, is never covered. Figuring out how to do it is not easy.Otherwise it is a good advanced action script book, if you would have time to make experiments with the examples.
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