Reflection in AS3

May 16, 2008 by russellf9

I had to create reflected assets for another Papaervision project I was working on. I used the reflection classes from Ben Pritchard of Pixelfumes.

See: Flash Article. The Source files can be found here.

There is also more information on the pixelfumes blog.

Best Tools

May 5, 2008 by russellf9

As I’ve been working all-over the place at the moment, I’m making a list of a useful freeware and applications I find essential for my work so i can find the links without any fuss.

MAC OSX

Free Ruler

marsEdit 2 blog editor

Eclipse Download

FDT 3.0 the greatest actionscript tool.

Also here’s a big list of top-100-mac-apps.

papervision

May 5, 2008 by russellf9

I’ve recently worked on a couple of Papervision3d sites.

Below is a list of links I’ve found useful:

papervision3d.org

papervision2 which has excellent tutorials.

Problems with navigateToUrl

May 5, 2008 by russellf9

Whilst working on a Papervision3d project, I was having a little trouble linking to external web links.

I Found an excellent solution here: Problems using navigateToURL. This solution incorporates the use of a Class URLUtils written by Jason the Sajand and uses the SWFObject.

A link to the latest version of the SWFObject can be found here: SWF Object

How to increase memory allocated to Eclipse.

April 15, 2008 by russellf9

I’ve recently upgraded to FDT 3.0 and encountered a warning message:

“Not enough memory. To use FDT you should raise the available memory for eclipse. Edit the file ‘eclipse.ini’ inside the eclipse installation directory and add the line: -Xmx512m After doing so restart eclipse.”

I had some trouble finding the correct file. I Found the solution at:
power flasher forum the entry by matteomenapace.

To quote and elaborate from the above post:

…go to the eclipse installation folder, right-click (or ctrl click for OSX ) on Eclipse.app and choose “Show Package Contents”, then navigate through the path Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini

Open the eclipse.ini in your favorite text editor and change the line:

-Xmx256m

to:

-Xmx512m

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First Blog

January 17, 2008 by russellf9

Welcome to the factornine blog relaunch, using WordPress.

Primarily a Flash Actionscript support blog for reference and as a log of issues I encounter as Flash programmer.

I’m currently using MarsEdit to write and edit my blogs.