vCam AS3 Interactive
Introducing vCam AS3 Interactive. The original vCam AS3 uses the BitmapData class to optimize performance during playback. When you view the vCam AS3 swf you are watching a bitmap transformation of the stage. While this is ideal for animation projects, it causes problems when you want to incorporate buttons or interactive elements into your presentation. I had a request this weekend for an interactive version of vCam AS3. This version will allow you to add interactive elements. However, you will notice a performance difference especially when applying the blur filter. The vCam AS2 already supports interactive elements since it does not use the BitmapData class for optimization.
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5 commentsFlash vCam AS3
Announcing vCam AS3 for Flash! For those who aren’t familiar with vCam, I’ll offer a brief explanation. In 2005, Sham Bhangal and Dave Dixon released the original vCam or “virtual camera” for Flash. Let’s
say a Flash developer is working on an animation and wants the animation to pan from left to right. Without the vCam, the developer would have to create tweens for each layer in the timeline. Using the vCam, however, the developer can animate a single vCam instance on the timeline to create the same pan. Simply place the vCam on the left side of the stage and create a motion tween to the right side of the stage. Publish out the file and the scene pans with a single tween! The original vCam can also be used to adjust size and add color transformations.
Now vCam AS3 brings a new array of options with added features including:
- Rotation
- Blur
- Brightness/Contrast
- Hue/Saturation
- and more!
Sham and Dave were very generous and offered the original vCam free of charge. Therefore I am also offering this new version for free. Have fun all!
Download vCam AS3 FLA (Requires Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3)
*** Note: A bug in Flash CS3 causes stage.stageHeight to be -100 the actual stageHeight if the bandwidth profiler is open. Either close the profiler or view the SWF outside flash.
Download vCam AS2 FLA (Requires Flash 8 and Actionscript 2 - performance may suffer)
The animation below shows the vCam AS3 animated on the stage:
The animation below is the resulting swf file: