3D Sphere Text Menu - Menus & Buttons. YouTube Video Gallery - Video Players. AS3 music visualisation. A decent computer and lots of volume is recommended. Well, due to the fear of slipping behind, I felt I better start learning the new Flash language, Actionscript 3, and at first glance, one of the coolest features is definitely the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum function. This is a quick experiment which uses the spectrum data of a streaming mp3 to trigger animation. Although it dynamically reacts to the beat, there are elements of randomness in this example so the animation / visualisation is different every time. I’ve seen a few Actionscript 3 visualisations before, though they tend to follow the graphic equaliser tradition, whereas I wanted something a little more creative. I will release some source code as soon as I have built this into a robust class. I intend to build an easily customisable music visualisation program which can build visualisations from your own graphics with various configurable parameters.
Download: AS3 Audio Visualiser Have fun, but epileptics beware! Tutorial: Pull Twitter Updates into Flash. That’s right – i said “Fwitter” It’s a very simple thing to display your Twitter updates in a Flash widget. We’re going to use the xml feed, because that’s what i’m most comfy with. Unfortunately, you can’t grab the xml feed from Twitter’s site, because they’ve locked their crossdomain policy file … but you can pull down the data using any other damned process. Here’s the basic flow you have to follow: Hit a PHP page or javascript function from Flash (we’ll use PHP) Parse the XML data that the call returns Display the goodies in your Flash app This is the Actionscript 3 code you’ll need: And here’s the PHP code:
Free Flash Tutorials: - webwasp.co.uk. Flash Tutorial - Communicating with Externally Loaded Movies 154 Intermediate Flash Compatibility: MX 2004 (Also works in Flash MX / Flash 5) Written by: Rabid Lemming Editor: Phil Schulz Length: 11,594 words Assumed Knowledge: Good knowledge of ActionScript and Flash Level: Easy but a lot to cover Access: Free Note: This tutorial has not yet been edited - so that I cannot be sure it is error free or that the instruction are easy to follow. Step one: Communicating between the main Timeline and externally loaded swf Movies Understanding _lockroot method basic ( I recommend you read the advanced explanation too) Skip this if you only have Flash MX as this only works in Flash MX 2004 Flash Player 7 and above When you load one Flash swf Movie into another the first issue is whenever you refer to anything weather it be a text box, button, Component or whatever.
Now when you test this Movie it works fine and you should get something like this: Why you may ask. Understanding _lockroot method advanced. Tutorial: Creating Flash Twitter Widget (AS3) By Blue_Chi | Flash CS4 | ActionScript 3.0 | Intermediate | Page 1, 2, 3 This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple twitter widget to show your latest tweets inside a Flash project. Such a widget can be used on any blog or website to inform the visitors of that website about the latest updates made on twitter and provide them with a simple method to follow you. Our widget will be coded using ActionScript 3.0. Creating this widget will use some simple AS3 classes such as URLLoader, XML, and TextField. Making our widget function online will also require writing a small PHP script and configuring the cross domain policy of the website. You will need to have PHP installed on your server and you will need access to the root folder of your website in order to fully incorporate the widget.
The widget we will create by the end of this tutorial can be seen here below: Our tutorial will be divided into the following sections: Setting up the graphical assets. Setting up the Graphical Assets. Revolt! Learn Web Design Online Free.