It had been rumored that at this year’s Adobe Max that 3D GPU support for the Flash Player would be revealed. They certainly did not disappoint! Adobe had teamed up with the guys from  Alternativa3D and Mythos Labs to demo a city racing game and wow, I am blown away. Not only that, they were controlling it with a Logitech steering wheel :O. Check it out for yourself.

So in Part 3 of this series we will be moving away from relying on the debug draw and SetAsBox function, and, instead we will be creating custom shapes and textures by building a truck in our Box2D world. This process is relatively simple but there are a few caveats. Read more

Some good news for those battling BSOD when watching hardware accelerated videos on sites such as YouTube.  If you have suffered symptoms of the mouse freezing moments before the screens display becomes garbled resulting in a BSOD while watching hardware accelerated YouTube videos and have a Gigabyte ATI 5870 card then read on (might still be applicable for 5850 cards and non Gigabyte models). Read more

Hello, welcome to my blog and of course my first post. During the past few years I have been an avid reader of developer blogs, in particular those belonging to legends of the Flash industry. After learning from them and going on to experiment on my own, I felt it was finally time for me to contribute and enter into the foray of blogging.

My passion for creativity and developing cutting edge technology led my on the path to creating rich media and I found technologies such as Flash to be an excellent sandbox for experimenting in areas such as artificial intelligence, 3D graphics and physics.

As such, ActionScript 3.0 and HaXe are my current weapons of choice. Expect to find most code examples written in them. However from time to time I may play around with other languages.

It is my aim for this blog to provide inspiration and be a great facility for sharing knowledge from which we will both learn. So I will end this very first post by saying thanks for visiting and hope to see you next time. Please leave a comment if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Allan Bishop