FlashMN

The third Wednesday of the month, July 20th, will be a code jam using Context Free Art.

For those of you who attended FlashBelt, we saw a number of amazing things, but if you’re like me, not the time in the world to try them.

Let’s take a couple hours and see what we can make!
Context Free Art is a program (Mac & Windows) that allows you to easily create recursive, fractal, and simple geometric art with very little code.

Here’s the url if you’d like to have a peak before the meeting. (And get it installed)
http://www.contextfreeart.org/

As usual, we begin at 6:30 for pizza and socializing, then start in around 7:00 until 9:00.
The location will be at Easel Training at 23 Emprire Drive, St. Paul, MN

For this session, bring a laptop if you have one, if you don’t, no problem.

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Many thanks to Bjorn Pederson, who rocked his talk on Arrays and Drag-and-Drop last night at FlashMN! His source files are available for download here.

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FlashBelt will be overlapping with the June 2010 FlashMN meeting this year.
If you’d like to attend FlashBelt, FlashMN has an amazing deal available to FlashMN members. It’s an exclusive deal available in February only. For details, see here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flashmn/message/5002

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Tonight at FlashMN, Mark Gason led a very informative beginner’s session about TweenMax (and TweenLite).

Mark prefers TweenMax over TweenLite, because TweenMax contains TimelineMax.

Basically, TweenMax is like Tweener, except that the former has some extra features added.

There was so much more in the presentation, but you’ll have to ask the Yahoo! Group for more details. I need to roll out.

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Wednesday, January 20th, Mark Gason is presenting to the group TweenLite.

• The advantages of using a 3rd party tweening engine.
• The basics of installing and using TweenLite and TimelineLite.
• Getting started using them, code demonstration.
• Some advanced uses you may not think of.

As usual we meet at 6:30pm at Easel training in St. Paul.

All are welcome, but if you could, please RSVP at the Yahoo user group.
The RVSP poll should be up about a week before the event.

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Tonight we are making bobbleheads!!! In case you want to dive right into the code, here are some source files for you to import and use for your bobbleheads and bodies:

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This Wednesday, FlashMN is hosting a bobble head party! The goal will be to
create virtual bobble heads in about an hour. This will be the perfect
challenge for all skill levels of both designers and developers.

It’s the same time and place,
6:30PM at
Easel Training
23 Empire Drive
St. Paul, MN

Please bring a laptop if you have one.

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September 16th, Dustin Tauer will be presenting Flash Catalyst.

For those that don’t know Dustin, he is the VP of Training & Development at Easel Training. Combine his amazing presentation abilities with some hot new software, and we have an exciting event coming up.

The presentation starts at 7:00PM at 23 Empire Drive, and pizza / socialization starts at 6:30PM.

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I am sitting in tonight’s FlashMN meeting and am quite impressed with the stuff Dan Holth is doing with 3D in Flash. He (and his team) are working on a sweet 3D application that allows you to test out all sorts of floor tiling (literally floor tiles that you would lay down on the floor of your kitchen or bathroom) types, patterns, and colors.

He is using the “custom perspective projection point” to manage the perspective of his 3D items. There is an object called “perspectivePoint” that allows you to control the perspective.

The “perspectivePoint” object utilizes Flash Player 10, so some folks (I’m looking at you, Grandma!) won’t be able to view the feature.

Masks, by default, follow the 3D perspective - this is bad. Dan had to do some “special” stuff to make the mask work properly.

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Daniel Holth will be presenting on the DalTile and American Olean room designer
that Universal Mind developed this Spring. The talk will primarily focus on the
challenges of working with Flash Player’s new x/y/z rotations, setting
perspective projections and masking in 3D space.

A features over view of the application can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcwQIJ974A although the actual application will
not be available for use until later this year.

I hope to see you everybody there!

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