EVOLVE

I realize it has been just over two weeks since I’ve posted anything here so I figured I’d let everyone know why. Directly after finishing up the project that I referred to in a couple of my other posts I jumped into another one using Papervision3D. It hasn’t been easy for me since I am not super familiar with the API and the lack of documentation (I’m looking at you, John Lindquist :P) hasn’t made it any easier. I’m not going to put a timeframe on when I will complete it and I know there are projects on the horizon so all I can say is I just don’t know when I’ll have time to post stuff up. I did manage to create a class today that I am using in the project which I do plan to release that has to do with gauging mouse inactivity but I want to polish it up before I post it so it may still take a bit.

On top of all of this, Jessica and I have been looking to expand our family. No, not in that way, but a puppy. We’re looking to purchase a Shih Tzu and we have found a potential candidate/breeder so we are going to visit on Saturday and take a look. If all goes well, we’ll have a little guy named Kingston running around the house in about three weeks.

Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know I’m alive still.

I’ve been using BitmapData lately more and more (I know, I’m very late to the party) and something that I was curious in was how to clear it before I can draw to it again so that the previous frame’s contents are not in it. Particularly, I was wondering how I can very simply and quickly erase everything inside of what I just draw into a BitmapData object. I did some quick Google work and found the answer to be VERY simple. Read more »

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I had a need to do some age checking on the project that I’m currently working on. I figured there had to be something out there for this already and I googled away for an age checker in Flash. I found a very handy little function written by Calvin Ly and with his permission I simply wrapped this into a class and am posting it here for anyone who may need it in the future. Thanks Calvin! Read more »