While on paternity leave I decided to have a look at ActionScript 3.0. It has to be said that I’m uncertain of the long-term feasibility of Flash for various reasons (“oh hi, js+html5″), but I thought it’d be fun nonetheless.
I don’t have Flash Pro, so I downloaded the free Flex SDK which worked ok once I figured out the build process (ie. creating a build.xml). Above is my (on-going) messing around with said SDK. It’s placing black cubes (wow!) on the vertices of a generated icosahedron, (subdivided once for more points). You can rotate the whole thing by moving the mouse away from the center.
Tags: as3, flash, flex, icosahedron, papervision3d
Great first flash project
Great that you didn’t download the Flash IDE it would only have scared you away.
Flex, FDT (or editors a-like) are defiantly the way to go!
Agree that Flash wont be as dominant as it is now, in 2-4 years, hopefully Adobe will take the lead further! But I am sure that either JAVA or C++ will take over the world soon! and destroy everything in it’s way …
/ Flex