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3D Studio Max to Away3D 4 (.3ds file export)

Published on 2012-03-07 08:11:21

Nothing special. Just showing a workflow I’m currently using.. from 3D Studio Max via .3ds file format to Away3D. UVWMaps, absolute coordinations and mesh-selections are all working quite fine so far. > read more

FDT5 & AIR 3.2 (aka From Scratch to Device in 4 Minutes)

Published on 2012-03-05 05:19:06

Huh. I was wondering about quite some mails I’ve received and different Twitter questions about: “How do I install the 3.2 AIR SDK in my FDT5?”. I didn’t think it’s such a deal but I’m gonna sum it up for you quickly now. And as I’ve once published a blogpost about “From Scratch to Device”, [...] > read more

Some basic iOS Deploy tips for FDT5 (AIR 3.2)

Published on 2012-03-01 04:19:32

Hey, I thought of sharing some of the latest stuff I stumbled upon while making a kinda “Papertoss” or “Flick Soccer” clone with FDT5 and iOS, based on Away3D and Adobe AIR 3.2. This is what I’ve got after two evenings now (I’ve got no idea why TwitVid rotated the video source by 90°). Don’t [...] > read more

Me & My Music – stereoleben

Published on 2012-01-17 06:14:06

Hey everybody, this is kinda off-topic but as it’s directly related to me I thought of sharing it anyways. It’s about me and my music – as some of you might know I’m in an electronic rock band called most wanted monster. You can catch us whereever you want to. However, besides this I’ve started [...] > read more

Flash Mobile died. So what?

Published on 2011-11-09 04:06:46

Today Adobe has published a pressrelease in which they announce to stop the development for Flash in mobile browsers. And again, these discussions start all over again. Was Steve Jobs right? Will Flash now completely die? Has HTML5 finally won? For me, Adobe‘s decision is completely right. Because: What was the benefit of Flash being [...] > read more

FDT5: From Scratch to Device in less than 4min

Published on 2011-10-22 11:11:29

It’s saturday noon and I’ve got an FDT5 Prerelease version installed (thanks again to Powerflasher). And as I’m about to do some iOS & Adobe AIR performance tests I’m in need of an app.. obviously. So, wouldn’t it be nice to directly check out the new mobile workflow in FDT? It could cost me a [...] > read more

iPads, iPhones, Androids and Adobe AIR

Published on 2011-10-19 07:29:31

As I’ve mentioned the last couple of months have been very quiet here. I don’t want to excuse or even explain myself but tell you what happened in these months. And one thing for sure, my Flash heart is still bleeding. This article covers some of my latest works and my progress with Adobe AIR [...] > read more

FDT 5 – The Flexible Development Toolkit

Published on 2011-10-19 03:18:03

Hello everybody, it’s been long since my last post and I do apologize for that. I’m going to tell you in detail what happened during the last months (and make sure to stay tuned as some really cool projects were realized) but for now I only got one big message for you: FDT5 is going [...] > read more

A bit about FDT4 Color Themes

Published on 2011-02-22 01:34:42

For all you guys out there who feel like me and are somewhat sick of the default Eclipse color theme: There has been released some kind of easy-to-go plugin which lets you quickly change the theme in Eclipse and therefore FDT4 as well. Furthermore yo > read more

Flex 4.5 Mobile Project Template for FDT 4.2

Published on 2011-02-09 13:20:41

With this FDT 4.2 Project Template you can easily create a Flex Mobile application in FDT. It sets up the launch configuration, the application descriptor and the required mobile libraries. Furthermore it automatically creates a simple mobile applica > read more

Thumbnail Gallery with Milkbox support

Published on 2011-01-27 03:13:58

An endlessly repeating thumbnail panel with Milkbox support and easy to use? Yes! As I previously posted something about Inertia-Movements I (and some people who have mailed me - thanks for that) had the idea to continue this article and show an exam > read more

How to upload a Webcam image to your server

Published on 2011-01-19 01:52:53

I know what you're thinking. Not again one of these Webcam server articles.. and you're right! I thought the same and decided to quit any upcoming search for this topic and write a 100% working solution by myself. Lately I was having some troubles wi > read more

Auto Flash Class Panel by @matanube

Published on 2010-12-09 03:51:15

Today Matan Uberstein has released his new version of Auto Flash Class Panel. You can find a nice little introduction video tutorial in his blogarticle, so make sure to check it out. Class and package names are generated form your library folder stru > read more

Using Flex 4.5 (Hero) with FDT 4.1

Published on 2010-11-25 04:35:22

Just a quick note, which might become handy for you as well. When using Adobe's latest Flex SDK, Codename "Hero" in FDT, you need to keep in mind two things. First of all: Download FDT 4.1 Beta, which fixed a bug concerning some NullPointerExceptions > read more

Compile AIR to native .dmg or .exe files with ANT

Published on 2010-08-16 10:55:26

An upcoming question in publish- & packaging AIR files is "How to convert them to a .dmg or .exe file?" Easily enough, you do not have to do anything else except using a slightly different ANT build task for it. Instead of passing: PLAIN TEXT XM > read more

Add Linked Resources (as a src folder) to ANT builds

Published on 2010-08-13 14:03:38

Here's another quick snippet to add Linked Resources to a compile process built with ANT. You know, you can link a whole directory to be a "Linked Library" in FDT, e.g. Greensock's TweenLite. Doing so means that you cannot use the -library-path argum > read more

Chromeless AIR Applications – A Designer’s Look

Published on 2010-08-13 10:55:33

Hey, first of all - some of you may have noticed this is the third AIR related article in two days. I'm very excited at the moment due to the fact I can finally compile them with FDT4. Anyways, I want to store my process and failures, hints and tips > read more

Using SWCs within AIR packaging with ANT

Published on 2010-08-13 07:30:47

In addition to AIR2 and FDT4 (M3) – A detailed Walkthrough I encountered a problem when trying to use external SWCs like e.g. an assets library in your AIR package. In other words: If you're using an SWC with all your graphical stuff exported from > read more

AIR2 and FDT4 (M4) – A detailed Walkthrough with ANT

Published on 2010-08-12 13:43:06

Hello, someone might remember an older post on Beautify Code which has shown how to successfully create an AIR application certificate, publish the project and then package it to an .air file, which can be installed and run. Now here's the 2010 updat > read more

www.WeLoveFDT.com | An FDT Community Feed

Published on 2010-08-06 04:27:43

Hi, I'm very happy to announce that www.WeLoveFDT.com has just been launched! Powerflasher just wrote the following: Recently a new community-project has been launched which combines most of the active FDT blogs like Aiden Tailor, Matan Uberstein, Ma > read more