Comments on: Flash vCam AS3

By: Cool dude

Cool dude — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:39:42 +0000

Thx soooooooooooo Much For ths now my tpi animation rocks

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:34:37 +0000

Before you go making comments like this you might want to consult Adobe’s documentation. AVI’s do not compile ActionScript code. Export a Quicktime(renders actionscript animation) from Flash then convert it to an AVI using a video editor.

By: dude

dude — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:37:28 +0000

u stink doesnt work with .avi files when i publish

By: Fritig

Fritig — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:56:11 +0000

First I discovered this amazing virtual cam in AS2 thanks to Sham Bhangal & Adam Phillips collaboration. I would like to adapt it in AS3 and you did it perfectly!

Many many thanks,

Robin

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:34:13 +0000

Hey, great work there! I’m finishing up a game with it, the only problem I’m getting is when adding a middle ground in the scene. The performance drops drastically. I’ve set up the background and foreground for parallax scrolling, and it works great, but when I add the mid ground, everything almost stops. Any idea why? What can I do to improve this? I’ve tried even using the Hardware acceleration publish setting from Flash CS4, but doesn’t change a bit.

Thanks for nay help! o/

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:15:43 +0000

Nope, it's strictly AS3. You might be able to find the original AS2 vCam here.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:37:24 +0000

hey does AS3 work with AS2 flash file?

By: Yenni

Yenni — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:50:31 +0000

I love using the camera…I’ve used it so many times and it’s saved me SO much time.

Now though, I am trying to use this camera to control what is shown to a player.

The camera is located on left.swf and right.swf (but i’m just going to focus on left.swf because both are identical)

Currently I have the camera moving based on the character movement, and that works perfectly when I load it on it’s own.

BUT, when I load it into my main.swf it loses the ability to access “stage”

I’ve been able to fix this before by adding

//code

if(stage != null) {
init();
}
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

function init(event:Event = null):void {
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
//stage.addEventListeners would be put here
}

//end code

but adding that to the camera didn’t work because it references stage outside of functions accessed by event listeners.

Can anyone help me with this?

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:43:58 +0000

Hi I have been using the vcam for an animation project and up until today it has been working just fine- now when I opened my file today and tried exporting the SWF file to preview- it’s stuck on frame 4- the camera is not working even on a new document that I created a simple animation to test it…have any suggestions on how to fix this???

Thanks,
Melissa

By: pam

pam — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:22:45 +0000

Hi Brian,

I have a couple of questions. Because of the changes adobe has made to Flash the Quick time exports horribly. I am a timeline animator/instructor and when I export I get all kinds of frame drops. My work around is to export my sound as a qt and export my swf for the visual and take it into After effects put it together and export a great looking QT from there. However I can’t get the vcam to work when I do this. Any suggestions? Should I ask Adam how he exports his stuff?
I hope to continue to work with my community college students with the vcam.
I wish Apple and Adobe would have a cease fire…and fix the flash Quick time.

Thanks Brian,

Pam