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Recently I have been evaluating some of the open source flash 3D engines. I checked out Papervision3D, Sandy3D and Away3D. These are large full featured engines however there is also Five3D which allows you to render smooth shapes and text. Full Browser 3D with Flash ActionScript3.0 I was thinking about how great it would be to have a full web page [...]

This post describes some of the differences I have stumbled over whilst working with actionscript 3.0 and Flash CS3 compared to earlier versions. It starts with Export for Actionscript In AS2 if you wanted to access the properties of an instance on the stage from code, you had to ensure that the “export for actionscript” checkbox was selected in [...]

Writing your first Actionscript 3.0 application with Flash CS3. Here is the quick guide to get the basics set up. First create a fla. You can name this whatever you like. Maybe myFirstApp.fla. At this point you could start writing code directly into a timeline frame however best practice is to define a document class. The document [...]