This isometric engine was my first test. The skeletons are stock assets, and the pipeline was built for production. The tiles themselves are the same square movieclip manually scaled.
Topics: Experiments

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You may have noticed that StevenStark.com just got a makeover. This will be followed by 3d integration, but for now we will stick with this.  What did I do? I setup a HTML Wrapper to render the HTML content in Flex (Flash). There were many issues...
Topics: CMS, Flash, flex, json, tidy, Tutorials, wrapper

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I recently signed up for a Dedicated Virtual (dv) server with Media temple, and had to do quite a lot of work to properly configure things. This article is designed to help those in a similar situation. Additional comments and suggestions are welcome....
Topics: CMS, LAMP

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FlashBrite3D has been re-designed to work around jpg and png images. Instead of defining a map of characters to either be on or off, as we did in version 1, we are converting the image into text. Based on the resulting text, a new 3D representation of...
Topics: Flash

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FlashBrite3d is a great tool to give your project that little extra something. You build a light display in XML and use simple code to generate amazing visuals. I, personally, like the Simple example better than a complex one, however this is meant to be.
Topics: Flash, Tutorials

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