Overview
The only definitive and authoritative book available on ActionScript 3 animation techniques
Updated to cover ActionScript 3, and supports Flash 9, Flex Builder 2, or the Flex SDK
It's the 2nd edition of a best selling ActionScript book
Written by Keith Peters, author of many Flash books, and a popular community figure
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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3D Animation
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Additional Techniques
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About this book
Flash has long been one of the most approachable, user-friendly tools for creating web-based animations, games, and applications. This has contributed to making it one of the most widely used programs for creating interactive web content. With each new version of Flash, ActionScript, its built-in scripting language, has become more powerful and a little more complex, too. ActionScript, now at version 3.0, has significantly matured as a programming language, bringing power and speed only previously dreamed about to Flash-based animation, going far beyond traditionally used keyframes and tweens.
The material inside this book covers everything you need to know to harness the power of ActionScript 3.0. First, all the basics of script-based animation and setting up an ActionScript 3.0 project are covered. An introduction to object-oriented programming follows, with the new syntax, events, and rendering techniques of ActionScript 3.0 explained, giving you the confidence to use the language, whether starting from scratch or moving up from ActionScript 2.0.
The book goes on to provide information on all the relevant trigonometry you will need, before moving on to physics concepts such as acceleration, velocity, easing, springs, collision detection, conservation of momentum, 3D, and forward and inverse kinematics. In no time at all, you'll both understand the concepts of scripted animation and have the ability to create all manner of exciting animations and games.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation
Book Subtitle: Making Things Move!
Authors: Keith Peters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0384-1
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Keith Peters 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-791-0Published: 09 April 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0384-1Published: 25 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 568
Topics: Web Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems