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We recently had one of our interns slave over getting a Displacement Map Filter project off the ground and displaying a flat image in faux 3D. After long hours of slavery, his hard work paid off and we recieved this great tutorial that blows most out of the water. Great work Joel, now get me a damn cup of coffee!

lab.joelGillman.com › False 3D in Flash: Displacement Maps

I had written a post a while back about using the Handy FPS box. Recently I was sorting through some code and remembered I had found a prettier more informative as3 fps stats box. This one is from Mr. Doob, you can download it from his Google Code Repo.

Example Code:

import Stats;
addChild(new Stats());

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OneMotion.com has put together a neat experiment using flash and 3D (Papervision?). The demo is basically just a spider crawling around following your mouse in 3D perspective. There is a crontrol panel to alter different characteristics of the spider (Body Scale, Speed, Leg Reach, Height, etc…).

Great Job, creepy, but cool!

Play With Spider - Flash 3D - OneMotion.com.

I have dabbled a bit in AIR for sometime and really love the ability to make an “official” feeling app for Windows while working in flash. How much more official can you get than altering the NativeMenu of the window with whatever you want (rendered in text that is). You are at the mercy of the OS, but still, I can even place line separators if I want! Read on for the code…

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UPDATE: I’ve uploaded the source for this project as is. I’ve got nothing for comments in the code, so your on your own. Feel free to leave a comment with questions and I’ll try and answer them. Get the Papervision Video Plane Source

There is a possible upcoming project that may involve video with perspective. I have been using Papervision for a couple of other projects and figured I would put together a demo to see how well it handles. Enjoy