Showing posts with label as3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label as3. Show all posts
4d render farm ( flex development notes )
few months ago, i was contacted by an friend company (cgmentor) for project named '4drenderfarm'. they were starting company to provide services in network rendering for 3dsmax(initially). i developed their client application (desktop) and 3dsmax script to package everything from 3dsmax and send to their ftp server.
it was simple and interesting project as i am learning more and more development familiarity. most of stuff was simple, except for the fact, that first time, i had chance to touch php. huge thanks for all the guidance from my friend Alvi @ evolve. rough workflow steps were as follow
flash development Notes in General
its been few months i am developing with action script 3. this post will document my current information about flash development process and future plans.
- IDE. Flash Develop. from last three months. ( currently using this, port for mac is in progress, and i love this.)
- Eclipse can be used with AXDT / FDT / FLEX SDK ( seems logical for linux users )
- Flash Builder or standalone FDT can be used as well ( windows / mac possible approaches)
- MOJOCOLOR
- if you are dealing with colors (technically), it is must, can't just force, how cool and amazing this is. how much time it saved, while working on brightoPaints Project.
- CAURINA TRANSITIONS
- an extremely useful tweening engine / framework for as3 work. i have used it offcourse, in more than 1 project. too good
- BOX 2D
- obvious choice for 2d physics engine in flash. now a days working on this (python port is also available)
- PAPERVISION
- most probably, will be my obvious choice, if needed to do 3d in flash.
- SOUND STEP BASE UI
- GUI Layout framework, i m hoping to use in upcoming flash IDE project.
- SOMACORE
- modern / future version of MVC implementation (advance level). Hopefully i'll use it. currently hard ( out of scope )
- PUREMVC
- classical / current version of MVC implementation for as3. (python port is also available)
Reference 1 , Reference 2
Lastly, some extremely cool flash dev relevant websites, which i visit quite often and i m huge huge fan of these genius guys. Thanks for inspiring me.
emanueleferonato
8bitrocket
iainlobb
soulwire
soundstep
somerandomdude
neave
Happy Flashing..
Brighto Paint App
i have recently finished few simple web applications for BrightoPaints. I was hired / contracted by Evolve (Company which is doing complete web campaign, website etc). My role in project was to work as flash developer. I had luxury of having a flash consultant as well (if needed), Huge thanks to Nadeem Manzoor for providing such a wonderful help n support from his valueable time.
first and foremost important thing about this application, since its inception was, where user can pick areas (pre-defined) and fill colors and see final image. its almost same, but while discussions with client it has evolved a bit . Project can be seen at live website (BrightoPaints). it consits of few simple small apps / modules.
Paint App
paint application, where user can fill colors (from client data base) into images
Paint Calculator
estimate required paint amount (in-directly cost)
Color Browser
browse colors from client database and see other relevant color schemes based on simple logics.
NOTES:
this is my first implementation of OOP.
this is also my first implementation of Design Patterns. i have used MV design pattern.
evolve team still busy in filling up images and improving earlier testing masks, so quality of output is still WIP but generally application is working. hopefully, it will be finalised soon..
FUTURE:
initially, we wanted to make this a product, which evolve can resell, but due to time contraint, we had to drop that plan and test possibility via simple implementation. Now when this proejct is over, i think, it still has its potential as product in evolve products catalog.
to do this, i have to implement MVC design pattern , so Custom GUI's and skins can be added per client.
plus, i also feel, i'll write two more simple components for this in future
1- search client colors via name or code
2- search client closests colors based on any user picked color via custom attributes, where user can give hue / sat / val ranges and search database.
first and foremost important thing about this application, since its inception was, where user can pick areas (pre-defined) and fill colors and see final image. its almost same, but while discussions with client it has evolved a bit . Project can be seen at live website (BrightoPaints). it consits of few simple small apps / modules.
paint application, where user can fill colors (from client data base) into images
Paint Calculator
browse colors from client database and see other relevant color schemes based on simple logics.
NOTES:
this is my first implementation of OOP.
this is also my first implementation of Design Patterns. i have used MV design pattern.
evolve team still busy in filling up images and improving earlier testing masks, so quality of output is still WIP but generally application is working. hopefully, it will be finalised soon..
FUTURE:
initially, we wanted to make this a product, which evolve can resell, but due to time contraint, we had to drop that plan and test possibility via simple implementation. Now when this proejct is over, i think, it still has its potential as product in evolve products catalog.
to do this, i have to implement MVC design pattern , so Custom GUI's and skins can be added per client.
plus, i also feel, i'll write two more simple components for this in future
1- search client colors via name or code
2- search client closests colors based on any user picked color via custom attributes, where user can give hue / sat / val ranges and search database.
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