From Pigbert Wiki

Table of contents

1 General 2 Animation 2.1 Pixel effects 2.2 Text effects 2.3 Mouse Tracer and Motion 2.3.1 Mouse Tracer 2.3.2 Mouse Repeller and Shaker etc. 2.3.3 Mouse Pointer 2.4 Motion 2.4.1 Fast Moving Blur Motion 2.4.2 Bounce and Flick 2.4.3 Elastic 2.4.4 Others 2.5 Cool Animation 2.5.1 Explosion Effects 3 Shape Tricks 3.1 Progressive Shape Drawn 3.2 Shape Intersection Detection 3.3 Other Shape Tricks 4 Bitmap/Photo Tricks 4.1 Photoshop Effects 4.2 Mask 4.3 Photo Transitions 4.4 Photo Display 5 Background control 5.1 Dynamic Background Drawing 5.2 Background Moving with Mouse or Keys 5.3 Background/Map Panning 5.4 Free background patterns 6 Ready-to-use 6.1 Flash Characters 6.2 Flash Objects 6.2.1 Earth and Globe 6.2.2 Clocks 6.2.3 Meter, Dials, Etc. 6.2.4 Handle, Joints, Etc. 6.3 Flash Scenarios 6.3.1 Simple Games 6.3.2 Board-game related 6.3.3 Drawing related 6.3.4 Others 7 3D 7.1 Libraries 7.2 3D Objects 7.2.1 3D Characters 7.2.2 3D Spheres 7.2.3 3D tunnels 7.2.4 3D Boxes 7.2.5 Screensaver effect 8 Control Components 8.1 Window and Menus 8.2 Button 8.3 Mouse 9 APIs 10 Sound 11 Database etc.

General

• Resources @ Senocular (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php), MIT liscence
• ActionScript 3 samples for Flash CS4 Professional @ Flash developer center (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/samples/)
• flash tutorials @ LayersMagazine.com (http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/flash)
• Script Playground (http://scriptplayground.com/) - more so to do with the website side of flash
• free AS2 script @ freeactionscript.com (http://www.freeactionscript.com/game-scripts/)
• Free Flash Text Effect @flashDesignMarketing.com (http://www.flash-design-marketing.com/tutorials/free-fla-files/text-effects.shtml)

Animation

Pixel effects

• Pixel Comet (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.190)
• Blurred Trails (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.166)
• TV statics (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.200)
• Marching Ants Mouse Select Box Effect (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.185)
• 3D Pixel Sphere Drawer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.55)

Text effects

• Free Flash Text Effect @flashDesignMarketing.com (http://www.flash-design-marketing.com/tutorials/free-fla-files/text-effects.shtml)
• fly-in Text Animated Letter By Letter (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.68)
• Waving, Wobbling Text (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.34)
• Prograssive word by word drawn with clipping sound (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.123)
• Gradient Textfield Background (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.47)
• 3D Spinning Letters (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.43)
• 3D Rotating Text (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.23)

Mouse Tracer and Motion

Mouse Tracer

• water drop/river tracer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.176)
• text mouse tracer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.95)
• Black Hole (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.164) star mouse tracer with the stars swirling into a black hole...
• Emitting Fountains (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.62)
• Constant Mouse Follow (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.16)

Mouse Repeller and Shaker etc.

• Mouse Avoider (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.94)
• Mouse Shaker (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.93) the matrix of object would shake in the direction of the mouse comming and going
• Mouse Repelling Ball Cluster (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.71)
• Dynamic Waves Created With Mouse (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.28)

Mouse Pointer

• 3D Character Looking at Mouse (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.171)
• Eye Looking At Mouse (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.6)
• Mouse Turning Dials (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.157)
• Pointers With Mouse-Easing Rotation (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.70) 3 pointers rotate in the shortest distance to point to the mouse's direction
• Lightning Stretching To Reach Mouse (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.59)
• Arrows Pointing Towards Each Other (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.44)

Motion

Fast Moving Blur Motion

• The blur effect of fast motion (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.170)
• Blurred Moving Text (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.75)

Bounce and Flick

• ball bounce within circular boundary (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.139)
• Flick And Bounce Ball (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.3)

Elastic

• Basic Elastic Examples (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.18) - elastic ball (shakes a bit)
• G. W. Bush Bobblehead (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.90) The bobbling effect is dictated by 2 actions: position "bobbing" and rotation "nodding". Each are controlled by a sine wave and slowly come to a stop after a certain amount of time.

Others

• Easing Class (Linear Tween Transformations)this (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.144) is an effective path modifier. It transform the linear path into non-linear function based path (sine, circular, polynomial etc.)
• Spinning Wire Bush (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.113) - spin on an angle
• Slider Stars Around Circle (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.17)

Cool Animation

• Flag wave (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.188)

Explosion Effects

• More Explosion Effects (http://www.freeactionscript.com/category/game-examples/dynamic-particle-effects/page/2/)@(Free AS)

Shape Tricks

Progressive Shape Drawn

• Progressively Drawn Dashed Circle (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.159)
• Dynamically Drawn curveTo (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.38) with arrow
• Draw Random Spiral (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.135)
• Pencil Drawing Progressive Circle and Square (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.158)
• Progressively Draw Closed Shape (star, triangle, square) (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.127)
• Dynamic Pie Chart (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.126)
• Mouse-draggable Shape Tween Distort (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.112)
• Draw Continuous Dash Line (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.50)
• Bezier Path (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.4) with moving arrow

Shape Intersection Detection

• Line Segement Instersection (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.66)
• Arrows With Intersecting Outlines (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.57)
• Intersecting Circles (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.29)
• Intersecting Boxes (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.9)

Other Shape Tricks

• Drawing Circle Dynamically With Accuracy (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.21)
• Duplicated Sine-Waving Bars (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.104) (3D)
• Bubble Grid (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.7)
• Slider Stars Around Circle (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.17)

Bitmap/Photo Tricks

Photoshop Effects

• Pixel Zoom (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.191)
• Smudge (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.198)
• Bevel and Shadow (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.187)
• Translate, Rotate, Scale, Skew (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.186)
• Starwar's Sword Glow (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.183)
• Saturation Slider (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.169)
• RGB Channel (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.168)
• fading effect (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.141)
• fading transition (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.136)
• Image Cycling Through Colors (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.45)

Mask

• Gradient Mask (Transparent mask) (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.180)
• Fisheye Lens (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.172)
• Star Moving Masks and Magnifying Glasses (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.97)
• magnifying class in AS3 (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/08/12/pure-as3-magnifying-effect-using-displacement-map-filter/) (emanuele)

Photo Transitions

• Flipping grid transition (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.181)
• Grid transition (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.182)
• Dissolve transition (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.173)
• Brush transition (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.167)
• Dynamic Timeline Tweens (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.148)
• Fading square transition (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.133)

Photo Display

• 3D picture box (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.162)
• 3D picture box with side lighting change (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.130)
• Mouse Resizable frame (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.193)
• roundish reveal frame (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.138)
• Load Consecutive JPEGS (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.131)

Background control

Dynamic Background Drawing

• 4 Backgrounds (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.184)- crosshatch, horizontal, parchment, vein
• Warp Speed Stars (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.20)

Background Moving with Mouse or Keys

• Moving Tile Background Control (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.122)
• Overhead Minimap Movement (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.110) key-controlled background movement with left and right arrow key controlling the tilt of the map

Background/Map Panning

• Map With Pan, Zoom, And Selection (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.76)
• Panning Map With Steady Zoom (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.11)
• Mouse Panning A Repeating Scene (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.60) can be used as background of forward-moving games

Free background patterns

• BgPatterns (http://bgpatterns.com/) – online tool to create your own pattern *****
• Ava7 (http://patterns.ava7.com/) – about one thousand patterns searchables by color and theme *****
• [www.colourlovers.com/patterns] – thousands of patterns and color schemes *****
• brusheezy (http://www.brusheezy.com/patterns) free photoshop static patterns
• kollermedia (http://www.kollermedia.at/pattern4u/dotted/) – more than 250 patterns
• squidFingers Pattern (http://squidfingers.com/patterns/2/) free more than 150 pixel patterns
• Deviantart (http://www.deviantart.com/#catpath=resources/applications&order=9&q=pixel+pattern) more than 50 resources for pixel patterns
• dinpattern (http://www.dinpattern.com/) some interesting big patterns that can be used as backgrounds
• [www.k10k.net/pixelpatterns/ K10K] – a lot of tiny pixel patterns

Ready-to-use

Flash Characters

• Human Walking 4 frames (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.199)
• Arrow-key controlled 4-directional walking character (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.145)
• Arrow-key controlled 8-direction overhead walking character (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.101)
• Flapping bird (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.177)
• 3D Character Looking at Mouse (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.171) The character's face is distorted using a displacement map to give it a 3D effect.
• G. W. Bush Bobblehead (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.90) The bobbling effect is dictated by 2 actions: position "bobbing" and rotation "nodding". Each are controlled by a sine wave and slowly come to a stop after a certain amount of time.
• Basic Human Skeleton (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.42)
• Flying Sectional Dragons (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.25)

Flash Objects

• Recursive Fractal Growing Tree (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.58)
• Microphone Speaker (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.165)
• Pencil (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.158) (Drawing Progressive Circle and Square)
• rolling wheel (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.86)
• Falling And Collecting Snow (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.81)
• 3D Simple Fish (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.46)
• Homing Missle (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.8)

Earth and Globe

• 3D spinning earth (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=1.201)
• planet (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.91)
• Dynamically Placed Dot Around Rotating 3D Globe (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.134)
• 3D Pixel Sphere Drawer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.55)
• 3D Pixel Planets Around The Sun (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.54) ******
• Gravitational Arrows (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.26) ***** Gravity can be easily achieved in Flash using the gravitational acceleration formula which loosely boils down to accel = mass/radius².
• Alpha exploit weird alien cell (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.37)

Clocks

• Digital Clock Timer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.152)
• Analog And Digital Clock (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.99)
• Pretty Sun-Sky Time Display Unit (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.117)
• 3D Count Up Timer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.22)

Meter, Dials, Etc.

• Mouse Turning Dials (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.157)
• Mouse turning record dial (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.35)
• 3-pointer dials with mouse-easing rotation (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.70)
• Rotating Pizza with numbered slices (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.56) (dials)
• Trigonometry Unit Circle (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.114) - can drag around circle, gives sine and cosine

Handle, Joints, Etc.

• Flowing Robotic Hand with all knuckles (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.116)
• Drag And Rotate Handle (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.78)
• Weighted Arm Pendulum (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.87)
• Spinnable Roulette (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.121)

Flash Scenarios

Simple Games

• Propeller Cannon Game (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.67)
• Cannon and Target (Simple Cannon Game) (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.125)
• cannon using Box2D (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/07/14/platform-engine-using-box2d-step-2/) (emanuele)
• Simple car driving game with speed meter (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.109)
• Drag and Drop Gifts Boxes (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.153) (as in dress-up games)
• Snowmobile Riding On Randomly Generated Pixel Hills (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.53) (forward-moving games)
• word game (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/07/24/how-to-use-an-embedded-text-file-in-flash/) (emanuele)
• a tiny AS3 bear golf game tutorial (http://flash.tutsplus.com/tutorials/games/build-a-mini-golf-game-with-actionscript-3-0/) (tutsplus)

Board-game related

• Snapping Squares (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.115) - squares that snap into position when come within close proximity
• Drag Circle To Snap To Grid (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.103) - pretty circle and pretty grid
• Snap Ice Block To Isometric Grid (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.69) (like a go board)
• http://www.freeactionscript.com/2008/11/drag-drop-snap-inventory-system-v2/ Drag Drop & Snap Inventory System v2] (Free AS)
• flat isometric board (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.96) - movement with keys
• Bubble Grid (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.7)

Drawing related

• Simple Drawing Pad (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.5)
• Grid Drawing (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.14)
• Line-draw color fill (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.77)
• a simple AS3 drawing board (http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/?page=3)

Others

• 4 kinds of preloaders (text, bar, pie, water jar) (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.119)
• Audio Slide Sync (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.124) an audio playbox with image syn
• Movie Playback Controller (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.13)
• Very smooth key movement (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.106) - key to move ball. for more fluid movement, this kind of movement is done within an enterFrame event and not on keyDown.
• Map With Pan, Zoom, And Selection (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.76)
• Draw Lines And Curves With Undo (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.72)
• Spiraling Circular Tunnel (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.52) a bit like windows media player's audio effect.

3D

• Basic 3D Object selection (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.178)
• Draw 3D Grid (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.154)

Libraries

• Papervision3D (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/05/08/papervision3d-for-the-absolute-beginners/) supposedly the best open flash 3D engine out there. There is also a 6-stage papervision3D tutorial by Emanuele (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/06/14/papervision3d-understanding-plane-object-%E2%80%93-part-6/)
• JigLibFlash (http://www.jiglibflash.com/blog/) fairly new, ported from a C++ project, is a AS3 3D Physics library. There is also ways to plug papervision3d and away3D into JigLibFlash (http://blog.reyco1.com/jiglibflash-papervision3d-quick-run-through/)
• Away 3D Flash Engine (http://away3d.com/tutorials) API (http://away3d.com/livedocs/)

3D Objects

3D Characters

• 3D Character Looking at Mouse (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.171) The character's face is distorted using a displacement map to give it a 3D effect.
• 3D Star Trek Warbird VR Object (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.98)
• Frame Rotation Lego Man (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.19)

3D Spheres

• Dynamically Placed Dot Around Rotating 3D Globe (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.134)
• 3D Pixel Sphere Drawer (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.55)
• 3D Pixel Planets Around The Sun (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.54) ******

3D tunnels

• 3D Zooming Squares Tunnel (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.51)
• Moving Ball In 3D Space (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.85)
• Warp Speed Stars (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.20)

3D Boxes

• 3D picture box (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.162)
• 3D picture box with side lighting change (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.130)

Screensaver effect

• 3D Spinning Letters (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.43)
• 3D Rotating Text (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.23)

Control Components

Window and Menus

• Simple Windows In Flash (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.49)
• Resizable desktop window (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.142)
• Smooth Resize Window (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.10)
• Creating Flash Panels for Photoshop using Flash CS4 (http://scriptplayground.com/tutorials/as/Creating-Flash-Panels-for-Photoshop-using-Flash-CS4/) (scriptplayground)
• AS3 context menu (right-click pop-up menu) (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/03/11/understanding-as3-context-menus/) (enamuele)

Button

• Button Dropdown Box (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.40)
• How to use flash's built-in buttons (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/04/10/understanding-flash-button-component/) (emanuele)
• Flash spore bannar (http://www.stutorials.com/flash_spore_menu.php) (stutorials)
• Flash rotationg button (http://www.stutorials.com/flash_rotating_banner.php) (stutorials)

Mouse

• Simple Custom Cursor (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.83)

APIs

• AS3 vs. Yahoo Maps API (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/03/13/how-to-use-yahoo-maps-api-with-flash-as3/) (emanuele)
• Yahoo Weather API (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/07/29/embed-flash-yahoo-weather-in-your-page-with-yahoo-apis/) (emanuele)
• AS3 vs. Google Maps API (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2008/12/01/how-to-use-google-maps-api-with-flash-as3/) part 2 (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/03/18/how-to-use-google-maps-api-with-flash-as3-part-2/) (emanuele). Google maps API for Flash (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/)
• AS3 vs. Facebook API (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2009/04/09/official-facebook-actionscript-api-released/) (emanuele)

Sound

• Blurred Microphone Speaker (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.165) The speaker here vibrates when a certain level of noise is detected coming from the users microphone. As an added effect, the microphone is blurred with the Blur filter.

Database etc.

• read in .xls files (http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.88)