Video Trace
This is an amazing piece of software which allows you to create 3D models out of a video file, any video file!! Blew me away! See the demo video or read about the technology.
IE “Click to activate”, NO MORE!!
Finally, after a long court battle, Microsoft has settled the patent dispute between Eolas and agreed to pay some $450mil for it. As a result they will be removing the annoying “click to activate” functionality on active content! wooohoo!!
3D engines
Some of the 3D engines available for Flash -
Physics engines
A list of AS3 physics engines currently available. If anyone knows of any others, please leave a note.
- APE
- FOAM
- Box2DFlashAs3
- Motor2
- Fisix – Easy to use, and better docs than most. Shareware license, not for commercial use.
- Glaze – No documentation available at time of writing.
- Bolt3D – WOW Physics engine with Away3D.
Pulse Particle generator
Nice AS3 particle generator: http://rogue-development.com/pulseParticles.html
Fantastic FamFamFam icons
Check out the great collection of high quality icons at http://www.famfamfam.com/
Background patterns
Squid fingers site has some great patterns that can be used as backgrounds. Check it out http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/