AS3

AS3 = ActionScript 3

Also see: Flex

Resources

• Books on Safari
  • Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock
  • ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Keith Peters, Darron Schall
  • Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns by Joey Lott, Danny Patterson
• Documentation
  • Adobe: Flash CS3 Documentation
  • Adobe: ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference
  • Adobe: Support: Help Resource Center: Flash resources

Libraries

3D

• Papervision3D
  • papervision3d - Google Code
  • Papervision3D: Home
  • Papervision3D: Blog
  • Papervision3D: Docs
  • SVN Trunk
  • Tutorials
    • PaperVision How to Demo (Breeze)
    • Papervision3d wiki examples
• Sandy
  • flashsandy.org
  • Tutorials: Very complete documentation.

Physics Engine

APE

• ActionScript Physics Engine is a free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License. APE is written and maintained by Alec Cove.

Fisix Engine

• fisixengine.com
• Wiki
• API Reference
• Forum

Tweening engines for AS3

Tweener

• Tweener
• Tweener: Downloads
• Tweener: Documentation

Visualization

• SpringGraph Flex Component by Mark Shepherd
• Flare visualization toolkit based on Prefuse, the open-source Java visualization toolkit

People using it

• MrDoob: Blog

Questions

Bitmap

• Why does loaded 24-png automatically get pixelated? i.e. ugly like 8-bit data?