vCam AS3

[Jaeta]

I just finished vCam AS3 for Flash. For those of you who are unfamiliar with vCam, I’ll give you a brief explanation. In 2005, Sham Bhangal and Dave Dixon released the original vCam or “virtul camera” for Flash. Let’s say you are working on an animation and you want the animation to pan from left to right. Normally you would have to create tweens for all the layers in your timeline. However, the vCam allows a Flash developer to animate a single vCam instance on the timeline to create the same pan. Simply place the vCam on left side of the stage and create a motion tween to the right side of the stage. Publish out your file and bam! You’ve just made your scene pan with a single tween. Pans aren’t the only thing you could do with vCam. You could also change it’s size and add color transformations.

Now vCam AS3 brings a whole new list of features, including:

- Rotation
- Blur
- Brightness/Contrast
- Hue/Saturation
- and more!

Visit www.bryanheisey.com (http://www.bryanheisey.com) for more information and to download the source for free.

[Cota]

I would suggest contacting Jesse about getting this listed in the announcements section

[asf8]

Very nice update. Can the same thing/features be done for a AS2 Flash 8 version ? That would be great also!

;):)

[Jaeta]

I will be working on an AS2 version but I can't guarantee that it will run as clean as the AS3 version. I'll update my blog if such an update occurs.

[asf8]

I will be working on an AS2 version but I can't guarantee that it will run as clean as the AS3 version. I'll update my blog if such an update occurs.

Sounds great, I understand the performance difference, but would be nice regardless if possible. Thanks for sharing.

;)

[asf8]

I’m attempting to build these features into an Actionscript 2 version as well. I’ll keep you posted.

Saw you added about a AS2 version on your Blog post --- exciting!!

[Jaeta]

I've added a vCam AS2 to my blog. It includes all the new features of vCam AS3 but it's performance may suffer. Try it out and let me know how it performs.

Download the source here (http://www.bryanheisey.com)

Thanks,
Bryan

[asf8]

I've added a vCam AS2 to my blog. It includes all the new features of vCam AS3 but it's performance may suffer. Try it out and let me know how it performs.

On your blog: "Download vCam AS2 FLA (Requires Flash 7 and Actionscript 2"

Jaeta, can you please re-save the AS2 FLA back to Flash 8 please?
Thanks for a AS2 version by the way! :)

Also just curious how is it your able to list Flash 7 ??
Are you not using the Flash 8 capabilities and classes for the - (Rotation, Blur, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, etc...) ??

[Jaeta]

I saved the file back to Flash 8. I also changed the requirement to Flash 8 and Actionscript 2. While the rotation would have worked, you are correct in pointing out that the filters would not. Thanks for the catch :)

[asf8]

I saved the file back to Flash 8. I also changed the requirement to Flash 8 and Actionscript 2. While the rotation would have worked, you are correct in pointing out that the filters would not. Thanks for the catch :)

Thanks for resaving it ;)

[Q:] So can all these features (Rotation, Blur, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, etc...) be scripted also ? They dont need to be timeline based right ? They can be achieved via a tween class of choice etc..

Good work, and thanks so much for sharing!

[Jaeta]

Even better! You don't have to script at all if you don't want to. For instance if you want to change the hue of your scene. You just click on the vCam movieclip, and in the properties panel, click filters, and add the "adjust color" filter on the vCam itself and your scene will take on that same filter.

Hope this helps,
Bryan

[asf8]

Even better! You don't have to script at all if you don't want to. For instance if you want to change the hue of your scene. You just click on the vCam movieclip, and in the properties panel, click filters, and add the "adjust color" filter on the vCam itself and your scene will take on that same filter.

Hope this helps,
Bryan

Actually I am asking the opposite (I want to do everything via scripts! ;-)

So my question from before is can your updated version of the vCam handle all the transformations through pure code, and not by using the properties panel - for filters etc... (Rotation, Blur, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Tint/Color etc...) but instead do it all through actionscript.

Will everything still work ?

[Jaeta]

Everything should work just fine. Let me know if you experience complications.