This is a simple and nice Physicsengine by Andre Michelle. Source codes are to download at the example pages.
Glaze
Glaze is a game and physics engine for Flash including:
- Rigid Body Dynamics
- Scene management
- Line of sight
- User Input
- Scrolling
- AI
It is based on the C physics engine Chipmunk.
AS3 Encrypt and Decrypt Text
Sometimes you need to store or send text in encrypted manner. This tutorial, or example shows how to encrypt text using XOR cipher. The example is built as flex project, with all source codes provided.
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AS3 Reflection Class
AF Components is a company which specializes on building flash components. While building the components, they make free classes available to promote their business and to make other's developers lives easier.
On of this classes is a Reflection class, using which you can set up a reflection of a displayable object in a second. The reflection parameters as distance, alpha, matrix can be adjusted.
The source codes are written neatly so it's also a nice resource to learn or improve coding skills.
Live example:
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Tweensy
The new AS3 version of Tweensy looks quite promising. The author (Shane McCartney) claims that it runs faster than the fastest available TweenLite tweening engine (since than a new version of TweenLite is out, so TweenLite might be faster again, but still Tweensy is faster than e.g. Tweener).
Other interesting feature is the bezier-curve motion guide, where the object does not decelerate or accelerate when following the curves like in other tweening engines.
The TweensyZero package weights only 2.9kB and you can extend it's functionality with extra packages like MatrixTransform and ColorMatrixFilters. With MatrixTransform you can tween transformations of skewX,skewY and other properties around a defined registration point - cool! With TweensyFX you can achieve some impressive bitmap effects.
This tweening engine is definitely something to consider when starting a new projects, or when it is needed to achieve some special visual effects.
Visit the Google page of Tweensy to see some cool examples!
Current Tweensy license: MIT
TweenLite Review
TweenLite is a lightweight but powerful and easy to use tweening engine by Jack Doyle, which I prefer to use in my flash projects. The arguments for it's use are:
Easy to use:
The syntax is simple, clear and easy to remember.
TweenLite.to(square, 1, {x : 200, ease: Quad.easeOut});
Spicefactory
Spicefactory is a set of frameworks which helps develop large AS3 applications and aids communication with JAVA based servers.
Spicefactory structure and futures:
PARSLEY
= AS3 Application Framework
- Configuration / Dependency Injection
- Localization
- MVC Framework
SPICELIB
= AS3 Library
- Task Framework
- Reflection, Logging
CINAMON
= AS3 Java Remoting
- For Flex and Pure AS3 Clients
- Deployable in every Servlet Container
PIMENTO
= Data services for Flex and AS3 Clients
- Based on JPA/Hibernate
- Efficiently managed AS3 Entities
Flickr API - as3flickrlib
The Flickr library is an ActionScript 3.0 API for the online photo sharing application, Flickr. It provides access to the entire Flickr API.
(quoted from project's website)
Image Saver Class
With the Image Saver class you can save JPG or PNG images directly from your flash file. Here are the feature as the author describes them:
- Save a MovieClip, Sprite, Shape, Bitmap, Textfield or other kinds of displayObjects.
- It doesn’t matter where or how your object is positioned on the stage, it gets the right bounds.
- Never worry about bytearray’s / encoding anymore.
- Save your displayobject as JPG or PNG (using Adobe’s encoders
Very handy!


