Comments on: Actionscript 3 – Up to 512 Particles

By: treser

treser — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:18:19 +0000

your source code link is broken

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:49:48 +0000

What’s the deal with using left shift or right shift to store certain numbers? I’m probably guessing it’s for optimizing the code but how and where would you even know where to place such numbers. I’m sure I’m asking a vague question but I”m just wondering if you can shed some light on the subject.

By: tomsamson

tomsamson — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:58:19 +0000

oh, now i see, i should have checked the source before wondering ;)
you´re drawing all in one bmpdata,then you´d only see the anti aliasing at the edges of its conainer if at all :)
well,let´s say i was slow because its late here and i´m tired ;)

By: tomsamson

tomsamson — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:52:11 +0000

yeah, i know its bitmapstuff of course but if anti aliasing is causing an addtional slowdown in high quality stting why doesn´t one see any anti aliasing applied? :) i´d expect to at least see a small difference in look (comparing high quality/low quality setting) at the edges when two particles are close to each other, but no difference at all visible there.
anyway,really dig it :)

By: joa

joa — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:15:38 +0000

Hehe, that’s sweet. The look doesn’t change because the output is a bitmap.

By: tomsamson

tomsamson — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:29:30 +0000

yeah,that´s because you need flash 8.5 player which comes with flex builder 2

to joa: sweet stuff mate,looks delicious :)
funny that turning quality to low helps with performance some more though the look stays the same :)

By: Jeedee

Jeedee — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:43:35 +0000

Mmm it doesnt seem to work. I get a blue background and nothings happen … (Flash8, OSX)