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Wow, over 8 months, and my site is now back online, at a brand new domain, mattpollitt.co.uk. Over the next two weeks, I’m hoping to get back to posting and put some of things i have been up to lately on here, including a few conferences, work @ ustwo , and as recently announced, some details into the work we have been doing on notus.

This was originally a test post to see if i could get flash working ok in wordpress. Since it looks nice, i have decided to leave it here.

This is actually a little fun particle generator i knocked together on the plane to Torronto, on my recent trip to FITC Mobile to run on a high end fl3 device. The motion is code generated, and the particles are a mix of minimal code and pre-made timeline tweens, including the colour shift. At the end of each particle motion, the clip deletes it’s self and frees up memory . The combination also means the processor is not bombarded by multiple instances and movies.

I have multiplied the number of particles created by 3 for the desktop version though, and added motion on 3 axis using a basic sine calculation.

I have been messing around with some flashlite clocks today, and created this Binary Clock to use as a wallpaper/screensaver for any flashlite 2.0 compatible handset.

So, for a bit f fun, i have upload the limited edition version to my blog, and i will be available for free for the first 101 downloaders . After this time, it will be available to purchase from Voeveo.

You can download the SWF to transfer to your handset from this link, and it will be contained in the zip file.

Also, take some time to check out some of the other Me Mobile content at Voeveo and Me Mobile

So, get your geek on, and learn how to tell time in Binary!

Sorry, the first 101 free downloads have gone. It should be on VoeVeo in the next few days, i will post the link asap. Thanks for the great response

Matt

Was reading through Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices this weekend, and found the flash lite 1.1 matrix screensaver example. Thought i would try making it in fl2.0, and using actionscript to randomly animate the characters in each code bar, falling code bar position on the screen, alpha and scale.

Really happy with the way it works and even managed to add a white char to 1 in 20 falling code bars created.
you can have about 5-10 bars falling at any time without (too much) slow down, and the memory consumption is not to bad. Have tested it on 5300 works fine, and have made a nokia n95 version too.
The real advantage of using fl2.0 though, was been able to utilize the Tween class for the movement.

hopefully going to try and get this one on handago along with the blossoms wallpaper. Also exploring the nokia market place, but have not heard back yet…..

matt

I made a quick bitmap version to see the difference in performance. Changed the main oval to a PNG and also the reflection, which was then alpha’d to about 10%.

Came to 2 major conclusions:

Fps and performance === Much better (on the N91)

Graphical clarity === not so good…..

Because the size changes as it drops to the background, it goes all ‘pixely’. This would not be a problem if the icon did not rescale however, and the icon just moved off to the side…..

let me know how it runs if you try it on your device.

get the swf here

FL 1.1 display 176×208

matt

Fl1.1 / 176×208 display
Was messing around with this today, tried to recreate the look of the osx media player menu.
Interesting to see how the use off lots of gradients and the alpha reflections effects the fps play back on the devices.
Quickly knocked this together in FL 1.1.

feel free to have a go and if you don’t mind, let me know how the movement performs on different handsets. I tried it on a N91 and it was quite slow.

controls – left & right = nudge left & right

download the swf here

Matt.