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Sandy 3D Tutorial: Getting Started with Sandy and FlashDevelop

By Peter Backx | Published: May 5, 2009
Over the last year or two, developing 3D applications in Flash has become increasingly feasible, for almost any ActionScript developers. A number of open source 3D engines, like Sandy 3D, have popped up. Combined with the incredible FlashDevelop, any one can get started, right away. However, because FlashDevelop does not have the authoring tools of [...]
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The Lazy ActionScript Developer’s Way to Stream Flash Video

By Peter Backx | Published: November 4, 2008
In this final installment of my tutorial on YouTube hacking, I’m going to show how to build the FLV URL for YouTube videos and start streaming the FLV in your ActionScript application. As you will notice, this is very little work, because it is based on the streaming example in the AS3 language reference. I’m [...]
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How to use images in ActionScript 3 with FlashDevelop (and some other AS3 tips)

By Peter Backx | Published: May 22, 2008
One of the main bumps you will run into when coding Sandy3D, or basically any kind of graphical applet is loading resources, such as images. If you are working inside Adobe’s Flash environment, this all comes pretty naturally. But open source tools such as FlashDevelop do not have a graphical component, so you have to [...]
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Tutorial: jMonkeyEngine applet – hardware 3D in the browser

By Peter Backx | Published: April 27, 2008
Before I continue any Sandy3D or Flash tutorials, I’d like to go into another method of getting multimedia content in the browser: Java applets. One major advantage of applets is the possibility to use hardware acceleration inside the browser. This will tremendously increase the capabilities, quality and speed of the displayed pictures. None of the [...]
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Tutorial – getting started with Sandy 3D and FlashDevelop

By Peter Backx | Published: April 8, 2008
(Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) 3D for the web, it has been coming to you ever since virtual reality was the mot-du-jour and VRML the format to support, but it’s still not there yet. The latest craze now are [...]
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