Archive for December, 2008

Well here it is, my first book review – Advanced ActionScript 3.0 Animation from Friends Of Ed and writted by Keith Peters

This is Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! sequel.

The concept of both books is to create animation using only the ActionScript3.0 code, and they are structured as:

Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

• PART ONE – ACTIONSCRIPTED ANIMATION BASICS
  • Chapter 1 Basic Animation Concepts
  • Chapter 2 Basics of ActionScript 3.0 for Animation
  • Chapter 3 Trigonometry for Animation
  • Chapter 4 Rendering Techniques
• PART TWO – BASIC MOTION
  • Chapter 5 Velocity and Acceleration
  • Chapter 6 Boundaries and Friction
  • Chapter 7 User Interaction: Moving Objects Around
• PART THREE – ADVANCED MOTION
  • Chapter 8 Easing and Springing
  • Chapter 9 Collision Detection
  • Chapter 10 Coordinate Rotation and Bouncing Off Angles
  • Chapter 11 Billiard Ball Physics
  • Chapter 12 Particle Attraction and Gravity
  • Chapter 13 Forward Kinematics: Making Things Walk
  • Chapter 14 Inverse Kinematics: Dragging and Reaching
• PART FOUR – 3D ANIMATION
  • Chapter 15 3D Basics
  • Chapter 16 3D Lines and Fills
  • Chapter 17 Backface Culling and 3D Lighting
• PART FIVE – ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES
  • Chapter 18 Matrix Math
  • Chapter 19 Tips and Tricks

Advanced ActionScript 3.0 Animation

• Chapter 1 – Advanced Collision Detection

1. Hit Testing Irregularly Shaped Objects
2. Hit Testing with a Large Number of Objects

• Chapter 2 – Steering Behaviors

1. Behaviors
2. Vector2D Class
3. Vehicle Class
4. SteeredVehicle Class
5. Flocking

• Chapter 3 – Isometric Projection

1. Isometric versus Dimetric
2. Creating Isometric Graphics
3. Isometric Transformations
4. Isometric Objects
5. Depth Sorting
6. Isometric World Class
7. Moving in 3D
8. Collision Detection
9. Using External Graphics
10. Isometric Tile Maps

• Chapter 4 – Pathfinding

1. Pathfinding Basics
2. A* (A- Star)
3. Implementing the AStar Class
4. Using AStar in a Game
5. Advanced Terrain

• Chapter 5 – Alternate Input: The Camera and Microphone

1. Cameras and Microphones
2. Sound as Input
3. Video as Input

• Chapter 6 – Advanced Physics: Numerical Integration

1. Numerical Integration and Why Euler Is “Bad”
2. Runge-Kutta Integration
3. Verlet Integration

• Chapter 7 – 3D in Flash 10

1. Flash 10 3D Basics
2. 3D Positioning
3. 3D Rotation
4. Field of View and Focal Length
5. Screen and 3D Coordinates
6. Pointing at Something

• Chapter 8 -Flash 10 Drawing API

1. Paths
2. Triangles
3. Graphics Data

• Chapter 9 – Pixel Bender

1. What Is Pixel Bender?
2. Writing a Pixel Shader
3. Data Types
4. Getting the Current Pixel Coordinates
5. Parameters
6. Sampling the Input Image
7. Twirl Shader for Flash
8. Using Pixel Bender Shaders in Flash
9. Using a Shader as a Filter
10. Using a Shader as a Blend Mode

• Chapter 10 – Tween Engines

1. The Flash Tween Class
2. Flex Tween Class
3. Tween Engines
4. Tweener
5. TweenLite/TweenGroup
6. KitchenSync
7. gTween

Ora aqui está a primeira review de um livro aqui no meu singelo espaço – Advanced ActionScript 3.0 Animation escrito pelo Keith Peters e editado pela Friends Of Ed.

Esta é a sequela do Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!.

O conceito de ambos os livros é se criar animação com recurso somente a código ActionScript3.0, vejamos então como ficaram estruturados:

Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

• PART ONE – ACTIONSCRIPTED ANIMATION BASICS
  • Chapter 1 Basic Animation Concepts
  • Chapter 2 Basics of ActionScript 3.0 for Animation
  • Chapter 3 Trigonometry for Animation
  • Chapter 4 Rendering Techniques
• PART TWO – BASIC MOTION
  • Chapter 5 Velocity and Acceleration
  • Chapter 6 Boundaries and Friction
  • Chapter 7 User Interaction: Moving Objects Around
• PART THREE – ADVANCED MOTION
  • Chapter 8 Easing and Springing
  • Chapter 9 Collision Detection
  • Chapter 10 Coordinate Rotation and Bouncing Off Angles
  • Chapter 11 Billiard Ball Physics
  • Chapter 12 Particle Attraction and Gravity
  • Chapter 13 Forward Kinematics: Making Things Walk
  • Chapter 14 Inverse Kinematics: Dragging and Reaching
• PART FOUR – 3D ANIMATION
  • Chapter 15 3D Basics
  • Chapter 16 3D Lines and Fills
  • Chapter 17 Backface Culling and 3D Lighting
• PART FIVE – ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES
  • Chapter 18 Matrix Math
  • Chapter 19 Tips and Tricks

Advanced ActionScript 3.0 Animation

• Chapter 1 – Advanced Collision Detection

1. Hit Testing Irregularly Shaped Objects
2. Hit Testing with a Large Number of Objects

• Chapter 2 – Steering Behaviors

1. Behaviors
2. Vector2D Class
3. Vehicle Class
4. SteeredVehicle Class
5. Flocking

• Chapter 3 – Isometric Projection

1. Isometric versus Dimetric
2. Creating Isometric Graphics
3. Isometric Transformations
4. Isometric Objects
5. Depth Sorting
6. Isometric World Class
7. Moving in 3D
8. Collision Detection
9. Using External Graphics
10. Isometric Tile Maps

• Chapter 4 – Pathfinding

1. Pathfinding Basics
2. A* (A- Star)
3. Implementing the AStar Class
4. Using AStar in a Game
5. Advanced Terrain

• Chapter 5 – Alternate Input: The Camera and Microphone

1. Cameras and Microphones
2. Sound as Input
3. Video as Input

• Chapter 6 – Advanced Physics: Numerical Integration

1. Numerical Integration and Why Euler Is “Bad”
2. Runge-Kutta Integration
3. Verlet Integration

• Chapter 7 – 3D in Flash 10

1. Flash 10 3D Basics
2. 3D Positioning
3. 3D Rotation
4. Field of View and Focal Length
5. Screen and 3D Coordinates
6. Pointing at Something

• Chapter 8 -Flash 10 Drawing API

1. Paths
2. Triangles
3. Graphics Data

• Chapter 9 – Pixel Bender

1. What Is Pixel Bender?
2. Writing a Pixel Shader
3. Data Types
4. Getting the Current Pixel Coordinates
5. Parameters
6. Sampling the Input Image
7. Twirl Shader for Flash
8. Using Pixel Bender Shaders in Flash
9. Using a Shader as a Filter
10. Using a Shader as a Blend Mode

• Chapter 10 – Tween Engines

1. The Flash Tween Class
2. Flex Tween Class
3. Tween Engines
4. Tweener
5. TweenLite/TweenGroup
6. KitchenSync
7. gTween

O primeiro livro já o tenho, o segundo assim que chegar fazerei um review aprofundado.

The “New Year” is almost there and we all starts plans for 2009, with lots of  “blogging”, “Business” and much more.

For a new category was born here in this blog – BOOKS (livros) for book “reviews”, that will take place every week.

The subjects will be:

• Flash / ActionScript
• PHP
• Silverlight

Within these there will be minor-subjects as “Programming”, “Security”, “GameDev,” “Design “…..

I will be expecting suggestions from your side also.

O “Novo Ano” está ai à porta e começam-se já a traçar planos para um 2009 cheio de “blogging”, “negócios” e outros tantos.

Para já nasceu uma nova categoria aqui neste espaço – LIVROS que servirá para as “reviews” de livros.

Os temas a abordar serão:

• Flash / ActionScript
• Silverlight
• Arduino
• Processing
• OpenFrameworks
• .NET
• PHP

Dentro destes haverão subtemas como “Programação”, “Segurança”, “GameDev”, “Design”…..

Terei sempre lugar para sugestões de vossa parte…até breve.