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Adobe ActionScript 3: Advanced Techniques: Blended Learning

Course Code: cm82269      Days: 3
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Course Overview

This course is for people who want to push their Actionscript 3 skills further and learn advanced techniques in order to create and control effects with MovieClips, bitmaps, colour, audio, video, and 3D assets.

During this course you will get hands on experience working with the Flash Builder environment to rapidly develop advanced ActionScript content. This content can also be used with Flash.

Additionally you will cover some great open source class libraries that will help you in creating your effects and flash sites.

Audience

This course is suitable for those who have completed the Actionscript 3 Getting Started /Introduction course or for those who are familiar with the basics of Actionscript 3.

Course Outline

Drawing

  • Drawing API
  • Triangles (and UVT)
  • Bitmap fills

3D transformations

  • rotationX/Y/Z transformations
  • scaleX/Y/Z transformations
  • x/y/z translations
  • Simple 3D drawing

Collision Detection

  • Hit tests
  • Using Bitmaps for detection

Tweening

  • Tween class
  • Applying tweens
  • Creating effects with tweens
  • Other tweening libraries

Transitions and the Transition Manager

  • Blinds
  • Fade
  • Fly
  • Iris
  • Squeeze
  • Wipe
  • Others

Colour

  • Manipulating colours with AS3
  • ColorTransform class

Transformations

  • Matrix class
  • Matrix3D class
  • Transform
  • Others

Video Effects

  • Bitmaps
  • Cameras
  • Movies

Sound effects

  • Loading sounds
  • Controlling sounds
  • Visualisation - waveforms and frequencies
  • Microphones

Image Effects

  • Bitmaps and BitmapData
  • Filters and Blend modes
  • PerlinNoise

Open source Classes

  • Papervision3D
  • Tweener
  • TweenMax
  • Minimal Components
  • Others

Open source frameworks

  • Gaia

Augmented Reality

  • FLARToolkit
  • Adding Papervision3D

Object Orientated Programming

  • Creating your own class
  • Creating methods
  • Creating getters/setters
  • Using your custom class
  • Creating Document classes

Flash and Flash Builder (Flex Builder)

  • Importing Flash work into Flash Builder
  • Setting up your classes in Flash Builder
  • Embedding Flash work as assets in your classes
  • Using Flash Builder with php and mysql

Components and Data

  • Components
    • Button
    • Checkbox
    • ColourPicker
    • Combobox
    • Datagrid
    • etc
  • Working with data
  • Database Integration
    • Setting up a server and database
    • Testing server/flash/db integration
    • Ways to connect Flash and data - AMFPHP
  • XML
  • DataProvider


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