Action Script Question

[trekiej]

Is there anyone here who uses action script and can tell how I can get into it?
Can I learn AScript 3.0 without having to wade through AS 2.0?
Thanks.

[TheaterWiz]

You do not need to learn 2 before you learn 3.  It would be counter productive to do so.  There a ton of free and premium tutorials on the Net, not to mention straight from the source: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/.

[AmigaHeretic]

Is there anyone here who uses action script and can tell how I can get into it?
Can I learn AScript 3.0 without having to wade through AS 2.0?
Thanks.

I'm assuming this will be on something other than an Amiga? ;-)


I did a little Action Script a while back (working on SDL projects lately).  A good site is http://flixel.org/

I set up Flash Develop.  It is a free program and is pretty easy to setup using this site....  http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Main_Page


Then after you get that setup check out this site:

http://www.neave.com/

Actually check out that site no matter what.  There are tons of cool demo things on there.  Most all of them have a link to the source code.

I downloaded this one http://www.neave.com/bounce/  and it compiled with no problems.  You can browse around the code and mess around with it and see what things do.  Good way to learn stuff I think.  

Source code is write at the bottom of the page ( http://code.google.com/p/neave/downloads/detail?name=neave_bounce.zip)


It's pretty cool what you can do in a short amount of time.

Check out this game...

http://canabalt.com/  It uses ActionScript/Flixel.  Pretty cool.


Good luck.

[trekiej]

I am not for sure what the Amiga can handle in a web browser. I can only assume that it would depend on the browser in question.
I may check out Hollywood to see its animation capabilities.
Thanks, that is a lot of info. I found out a while back that it(AS) can be used for games, animation and picture mods.
Canabalt is a cool game and neave.com was fun just playing around with the notes.
I like were I am working, but trying to put together 386/486 and Pentiums in the heat/cold is a pain and the stuff is 15-20 years old. I am working on some new pc/dos stuff. I wish to get back to animation/drawing.
Later.

[rvo_nl]

From personal experience I can tell you its even better to start with AS3.0 straight away. The difference between AS2 and AS3 is huge.

[trekiej]

I do like AS3.0 it appears to be more like c++.
What is it like to control animation with it?
Is KeyFraming just as good?