Flash 8 - blending modes

[Mortimer Jazz]

Just a quick play with some of the new blending modes in Flash 8.
You will need the beta player to view this file.

[edit: more further down the thread. Will add more links as I go]

http://www.nwebb.co.uk/nw_htmlsite/f...sh8_blend.html

[Headshotz]

Wow, looks good

[Mortimer Jazz]

Flash 8 can also sample bitmaps and reproduce them. Sweet!
http://www.nwebb.co.uk/nw_htmlsite/f...sh8_bmap1.html

[hangalot]

the second one is good. i imagine you are using getpixel? or are you using the bitmap data class?

[Mortimer Jazz]

Hey Hangalot, how's it going.

I'm using both BitMapData and Rectangle (from the geom package) - which was something I saw protozoo do first (see comments on website) .
I'm sampling an area using flash.geom.Rectangle:

function sampleBMD()
{
    for(var y=0; y<divY; ++y)
    {
        for(var x=0; x<divX; ++x)
        {
            var xPos = x*sqSize;
            var yPos = y*sqSize;
            this["rect" + x + "_" + y] = new flash.geom.Rectangle(xPos, yPos, sqSize, sqSize);
            rectArr.push(this["rect" + x + "_" + y]);
        }
    }
}

and then using BitMapData.copyPixels to past it in the new BMD with some randomisation.

rrr = new flash.geom.Rectangle(xPos, yPos, sqSize, sqSize);
bmap2.copyPixels(bmap1, rectArr[randNumArr[0]], rrr);

I want to swap everything over to classes, then I'll post the source somewhere, as it will be in a more useful state. I'm currently using the F7 IDE, not MTASC, and the compiler obviously grumbles about the new packages. I found out that you can get around it in many cases by prefixing with "_global", but I couldn't get filters to work that way.

[hangalot]

nice one, its good stuff. you coming over to mmug this month?

[Mortimer Jazz]

Yeah may do. Depends if it clashes with my visit back to Bath or not.

As you can (probably) tell, I'm off work today - mad ear ache like you wouldn't believe. Trying to get as much F8 stuff looked at as I can inbetween bouts of intense head pain! Not to mention the pain of losing another days wages. *sniff*

ps see edit in above post.
pps How's the job going? ... oh and did you get my email last night?

[hangalot]

just declare your classes as dynamic, that will get the compiler to shut up. no i did not get the mail last night...
and the job is great, much less money than contracting but really good/interesting. and i can have sickies and still get paid

[Mortimer Jazz]

Originally Posted by hangalot

and i can have sickies and still get paid

*Grrrrr*

Yeah of course. That sorted it - cheers.

Sent it to your gmail account l***el@gmail.com.

[hangalot]

ain't getting no mail from ya.... weirdness.