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Title: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on September 01, 2008

Hi,

just a little small typer effect I hacked together for a little greetings list.
Nothing more to say about it since there is really no rocket-science involved
in this production ;-)

For more characters - please read the typer-text.

http://labs.weltenkonstrukteur.de/dbfgreetingstyper (http://labs.weltenkonstrukteur.de/dbfgreetingstyper)

Greetz!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on September 01, 2008

[EDIT]moved to MISCELLANEOUS - guess its placed better here[/EDIT]

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Clyde on September 01, 2008

Clever stuff mate.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Shockwave on September 01, 2008

The green palette works well with the wire frame vectors :)

Nice one Benny and thanks for the Greeting!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on September 01, 2008

@Clyde:
Thanks, dude.

@Shocky:
Thanks - and yes - since my LowRes Cam experiment - I am still
in the matrix mood  :kewl:

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: gooner on September 01, 2008

Hey that's cool Benny. :clap:

I now know i have arrived on this forum when i feature in one of your greetings.He he

Cheers mate ;)

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: AnimalMother on September 01, 2008

Well done and thanks for the greetings  :)

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on September 01, 2008

@Gooner:
Definately - if you like it or not - you are now one of us ;-)

@AnimalMother:
Thanks!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Singer on September 01, 2008

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

I Love it   I Like the music too.

 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: hellfire on September 01, 2008

I really like what you did here, Benny. In combination with the music you create a dense atmosphere.
The black background makes the screen appear a bit "empty", though.
Maybe you can add some noise or random scanlines or anything else that fills the unused space.
Triangulated wireframe tend to look very "unstructured". Maybe it looks nicer to skip the diagonal lines and user a denser grid instead.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on September 02, 2008

Yes it was very very cool!

Thanks for the mention too!  :goodpost:

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on September 02, 2008

Quote from: hellfire on September 01, 2008

...
Maybe you can add some noise or random scanlines or anything else that fills
the unused space. Triangulated wireframe tend to look very "unstructured".
Maybe it looks nicer to skip the diagonal lines and user a denser grid instead.

You are absolutely right. And I think your ideas are great. Thanks a lot for
constructive feedback. I will try to think about implementing them in an up-
coming release. Especially the random scanlines would have fitted perfectly
to the atmosphere.

IMHO, you have got a very good sense and ideas to fill those scenes with
cool details which makes the production more solid and complete.

Thanks again - and please continue supporting us with those ideas and
suggestions.

@Pixel_Outlaw + Singer:
Thanks a lot!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: energy on September 02, 2008

hey Benny...
nice typer!!!   :clap:
works fine here with OPERA...

cheers
eNeRGy

PS:and thanx for greetings... , back....

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on September 02, 2008

Thanks energy.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: va!n on November 03, 2008

@benny:
very very nice acionscript and styled greetings-typer!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Shockwave on November 03, 2008

@ Benny, I just watched this again.
It really kicks ass.

I want to learn how to do this myself, what books can you point me to Please :) ??

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on November 03, 2008

@va!n:
Thanks,mate!

@Shocky:
Of course.

Atm I read the book ActionScript - Making things move (http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590597915)
It covers really the basics. Simple 2D movement (gravity, acceleration,
friction etc). Guess you know most of the stuff - but if you are new to
the Flash platform it might be nice to have some sources to learn from.

In addition, there are dozens of valueable blogs around who posts regulary
nice source snippets I learn from. E.g.:

http://mrdoob.com/blog/ (http://mrdoob.com/blog/)
http://www.nulldesign.de/projects/nd3d-as3-3d-engine (http://www.nulldesign.de/projects/nd3d-as3-3d-engine)
http://www.prinzipiell.com/ (http://www.prinzipiell.com/)

And there are a lot of more - of course...

Coding wise I would recommend to start right up using ActionScript3.0
and the Flex SDK. The Flex SDK is totally free so you can create FLASH
applications without having to buy Adobes FLASH. ActionScript3.0 is
object orientated and differs in many other points from ActionScript2.0
But when you start doing ActionScript I would go for the latest version.

Current live documentation can be found here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/ (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/)

For a free and very good IDE I recommend FlashDevelop:

http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/ (http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/)

If you have any problems setting it up - or any probs concerning I
of course help you where I can...

Good luck, Shocky!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on November 03, 2008

Quote from: benny! on November 03, 2008

@va!n:
Thanks,mate!

@Shocky:
Of course.

Atm I read the book ActionScript - Making things move (http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590597915)
It covers really the basics. Simple 2D movement (gravity, acceleration,
friction etc). Guess you know most of the stuff - but if you are new to
the Flash platform it might be nice to have some sources to learn from.

Although there might be better books (from O'Reily maybe) - but cant
say - cos this is the only real book I own which is dealing with ActionScript.

In addition, there are dozens of valueable blogs around who posts regulary
nice source snippets I learn from. E.g.:

http://mrdoob.com/blog/ (http://mrdoob.com/blog/)
http://www.nulldesign.de/projects/nd3d-as3-3d-engine (http://www.nulldesign.de/projects/nd3d-as3-3d-engine)
http://www.prinzipiell.com/ (http://www.prinzipiell.com/)

And there are a lot of more - of course...

Coding wise I would recommend to start right up using ActionScript3.0
and the Flex SDK. The Flex SDK is totally free so you can create FLASH
applications without having to buy Adobes FLASH. ActionScript3.0 is
object orientated and differs in many other points from ActionScript2.0
But when you start doing ActionScript I would go for the latest version.

Current live documentation can be found here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/ (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/)

For a free and very good IDE I recommend FlashDevelop:

http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/ (http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/)

If you have any problems setting it up - or any probs concerning I
of course help you where I can...

Good luck, Shocky!

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Shockwave on November 03, 2008

K++

A totally comprehensive answer, thank you Benny, this is going to help me a lot.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on November 04, 2008

Thanks for the K and feel free to ask if something you have
some struggle to setting the IDE up or for getting your first
program run.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Xalthorn on November 04, 2008

Ooh, very nice.

I need to spend some time going through the showcase, lots of cool stuff in here.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: relsoft on January 19, 2009

I am now so interested to learn Flash Actionscript 3. 

Downloading stuff Benny posted. :*)

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: Shockwave on January 19, 2009

I think it's the music Benny used in that demo that makes it so atmospheric :)
It will be really interesting to see what web stuff you come up with Rel.

Title: Re: DBF Greetings Typer
Post by: benny! on January 19, 2009

@relsoft:
Glad to heat that. Looking forward to see your progress.
Keep us informed with your steps and maybe questions.
Good luck!