http://www.flashmn.com Official Minnesota Adobe User Group Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2010/07/july-20th-meeting/ 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. http://www.flashmn.com/2010/05/arrays-and-drag-and-drop-with-bjorn-pederson/ 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 http://www.flashmn.com/2010/02/no-flashmn-meeting-june-2010/ 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2010/01/mark-gason-tweenmax-presentation/ 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2010/01/january-10-meeting/ 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: http://www.flashmn.com/2009/10/bobblehead-imagery/ 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2009/10/wednesday-oct-21st-meeting/ 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2009/09/september-16th-meeting/ 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2009/08/dan-holth-on-new-3d-features-in-flash-player-10/ 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 ... http://www.flashmn.com/2009/08/meeting-8-19-630pm-easel-training/