Month: June 2007

Papervision3D component for Flash CS3

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , , ,

John Grden just released an amazing component for Flash CS3 for manage papervision3d on Flash IDE.

– Design-time render and editing in Flash IDE
– 3 Material types supported – BitmapFileMaterial, BitmaAssetMaterial and MovieAssetMaterial
– Creates MovieScene3D and Free or Target camera
– Manages resizing / centering of Papervision3D scene [optional]
– Dynamic masking to constrain the viewable render area to the bounds of the component [optional]
– Full API and access to Scene, Camera, Collada objects to code around
– Automatically loads materials via Collada file [when materials list is not given]
– New Custom Panel for modifying rotation, camera zoom, camera focus, camera Z at design-time

Download component here
See the presentation video

Papervision3D at google code: http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/

Kuler Flash CS3 Panel

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , , ,

Yesterday I found this really useful extension for Adobe Flash CS3.
This extension adds to your Flash IDE a kuler panel which allows you to navigate through all the most rated, popular and newest kuler themes. There is also a search feature.

When a theme is clicked this extension creates a new layer in your flash document with as many coloured boxes as the clicked theme.

Download the extension here

For those who don’t know what is kuler, read the f.a.q. here:  http://kuler.adobe.com/links/kuler_help.html

Apple Safari for Windows. Terrible!

Alessandro Crugnola general ,

Probably you know that Apple just released a public beta version of its web browser Safari for Windows.

Why don’t try it out? So, after Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera I downloaded and installed it immediately just for curiosity, even if looking at the demo I saw they forced the application UI to be like OSX rather than following the Windows standards (like for iTunes).
And this is the first reason I dont like Apple applications for Windows (I’m on pc, not on a mac and I dont want to have a mac UI!).

Ok, I’ve installed it and uninstalled just after 5 minutes. I can understand it’s just a beta, but quite all the pages I tested are weird with lot of things missing, the HTML isn’t rendered as I expected.
I did just a search on google as first attempt but the result page was unreadable at all!

Some minor issues:
why the font smoothing can be changed in the application preferences? On Windows the font smoothing it’s set in the OS preferences, so just use that value.

During these 5 minutes I found many other issues, but I really think this is due to the fact it’s still the first public beta..