A user on the FlashTiger list asked how to load classes dynamically at run time – this Adobe live doc covers it nicely. I’d thought of trying something like this before but was never clear on how to do it. Anyway, linked so that I’ll remember to look at it later :)
Month / March 2008
Grunge design is back! Yay.
It liiiives. According to Smashing Magazine. Fine by me – as a designer, organic dirty designs are much more fun to create than shiny rectangles with gradients. I got started in design the mid/late 90’s with a huge case of David Carson envy – designing grungy will be like coming home. So sentimental.
At least my old Typography in Decay site is tendy again. No updates needed!
Loading lots of assets in AS3
I’ve been using Hyrdotik’s Queue Loader in RAMEN to manage the loading of “theme” files for the interface. I’m not taxing it too much – just 7 files.
Bulk loader looks promising also – many more features, but it’s a lot bigger.
Forking Ramen
Been busy at work lately! I’ve got a tight deadline on a big project that involves a system demo with an avatar character.
I’ve been working in XML and dynamic Flash for so long with my inFlite system (more info soon) that I have a hard time thinking in terms of time line based animation. So, I’ve forked RAMEN and am creating a version for work. I’m getting the opportunity to add a few cool features (which probably won’t mean anything since I haven’t shared much about RAMEN here): timer based animation triggers, image distortion, targeting MC’s inside of a loaded SWF, shape objects, eventmanger objects, blah blah blah.
The hardest thing with be to get it to talk to Lectora so that I can make a cohesive template.
It’ll be a Boy!
We’re (well, Casey’s doing the work) having a boy in August!
Cool avatar generator
Tumbleblog
Robbie Player is updating his blog again. I like the idea of a blog that also aggregates feeds of your activity from other social sites. Cool concept.
Robbie is a developer/designer at Sudiobanks – really great webcentric design firm here in Charlotte. They do awesome work.
Mini avatars! Ack
Is it just me or is the NOAH Animated Avatar just creepy? Who would design anything and use an army of these little people to communicate about it to the users? You can control the size of them, but the detail that’s drawn into their outfits does not allow for them to be scaled too big.