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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

ISBN: 1590597915
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 137

Authors: Keith Peters

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• Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move
• Back Cover
• About
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part One: ActionScripted Animation Basics
• Chapter 1: Basic Animation Concepts
• What is Animation?
• Frames and Motion
• Dynamic vs. Static Animation
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Basics of ActionScript for Animation
• Basic Animation
• Movie Clips
• Classes and OOP
• User Interaction
• Summary
• Chapter 3: Trigonometry for Animation
• What is Trigonometry?
• Angles
• Trig Functions
• Rotation
• Waves
• Circles and Ellipses
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Distance Between Two Points
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 4: Rendering Techniques
• Colors in Flash
• The Drawing API
• Color Transforms
• Filters
• Bitmap Control
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Part Two: Basic Motion
• Chapter 5: Velocity and Acceleration
• Velocity
• Acceleration
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Boundaries and Friction
• Environmental Boundaries
• Friction
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 7: User Interaction--Moving Objects Around
• Pressing and Releasing a Movie Clip
• Dragging a Movie Clip
• Throwing
• Summary
• Part Three: Advanced Motion
• Chapter 8: Easing and Springing
• Proportional Motion
• Easing
• Springing
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 9: Collision Detection
• Collision Detection Methods
• Built-in hitTest
• Distance-Based Collision Detection
• Multiple-Object Collision Detection Strategies
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 10: Coordinate Rotation and Bouncing Off Angles
• Simple Coordinate Rotation
• Advanced Coordinate Rotation
• Bouncing Off an Angle
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 11: Billiard Ball Physics
• Mass
• Momentum
• Conservation of Momentum
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 12: Particle Attraction and Gravity
• Particles
• Gravity
• Springs
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 13: Forward Kinematics--Making Things Walk
• Introducing Forward and Inverse Kinematics
• Getting Started Programming Forward Kinematics
• Automating the Process
• Making It Really Walk
• Summary
• Chapter 14: Inverse Kinematics--Dragging and Reaching
• Reaching and Dragging Single Segments
• Dragging Multiple Segments
• Reaching with Multiple Segments
• Using the Standard Inverse Kinematics Method
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Part Four: 3D Animation
• Chapter 15: 3D Basics
• The Third Dimension and Perspective
• Velocity and Acceleration
• Bouncing
• Gravity
• Wrapping
• Easing and Springing
• Coordinate Rotation
• Collision Detection
• Important Formulas in This Chapter
• Summary
• Chapter 16: 3D Lines and Fills
• Creating Points and Lines
• Making Shapes
• Creating 3D Fills
• Modeling 3D Solids
• Moving 3D Solids
• Summary
• Chapter 17: Backface Culling and 3D Lighting
• Backface Culling
• Depth Sorting
• 3D Lighting
• Summary
• Part Five: Additional Techniques
• Chapter 18: Matrix Math
• Matrix Basics
• Matrix Operations
• The Matrix Class in Flash 8
• Summary
• Chapter 19: Tips and Tricks
• Brownian (Random) Motion
• Random Distribution
• Interval- and Timer-based Animation
• Collisions Between Same-Mass Objects
• Integrating Sound
• Useful Formulas
• List of Figures
• List of Tables