FlashSimArticles, links, discussion, and code related to building simulations in Flash, with an emphasis on simulating devices. Written by the authors of "Flash MX for Interactive Simulation," Jonathan Kaye and David Castillo (November, 2002).Winners from January Flash Sim Developer Class Announced- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I announced the three winners of the January Simulator Developer class, Tim Seeley, Craig Clark, and Grant Sherson. Tim and Craig won great prizes from MakingThings, and Grant won the mystery prize. Check out a snapshot of their projects...http://www.flashsim.com/class/buildEquipSims.html Building a Digital Camera Simulation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Brooke Kantor wrote a nice article for my newsletter about his experiences in building a Kodak C6330CX digital camera simulator.http://www.flashsim.com/newsletter/v2n3.html AS 2.0 Instrumentation Components- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I'm ready to release my revised instrumentation components for AS 2.0 (knobs, sliders, gauges, displays, etc.), as well as a new effort underway to create a catalog of skins. People who submit skins get the components for free, and get 50% of the sale when others buy the skin.http://www.flashsim.com/newsletter/v2n3.html#as2 My DevNet Article about my Breeze Live Presentations- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The article I wrote for the BreezeRoboDemo DevNet Centers is now live! This discusses my experiences during the Breeze Live seminars I conducted in April. I also give introductory videos, tips, and checklists to being a Breeze presenter and being a Breeze participant. I set up a discussion board (see the last page) to handle subsequent questions...http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/breeze/articles/breezetips.html See Fellow Flash Simulation Geeks at FlashForward!- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Making my way to New York for my session on Secrets of Successful Online Simulations (Ask the Experts). If you don't get a chance to come to my session, hopefully we can connect at the book signing afterwards!http://flashsim.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=768608087&f=5356042211&m=80210296... FlashForward materials from Secrets of Successful Online Simulations- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Thanks to all who attended my 'Ask the Experts' session at FlashForward last week. I hope you all got pumped up to create great simulations! I just posted my slides and some example movies, at http:www.FlashSim.comFlashForward2004. Please direct questions to the discussion board!http://flashsim.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=768608087&f=5356042211&m=70410328... Affiliate Program for Flash Instrumentation Components- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I just started an affiliate program on FlashSim for those with blogs and web sites who want to help me sell my instrumentation components and component skins. Affiliates receive the components for free, and 15% of any sale. I'm also really looking for designers who want to create skin sets (designers get the components and 50% of the purchase price when someone buys the skin set).http://flashsim.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=768608087&f=73810680411&m=9301066... Differences between v2 components and my architecture- (Found July 2, 2008 ) A few people at FlashForward last week asked me whether the components I built for the book and now updated for AS 2 were different from Macromedia's model for v2 components. The short answer is YES -- I distilled the differences into the following 5 points.http://flashsim.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=768608087&f=5356042211&m=75910509... New interface components and an event recorder component- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I've recently added a few new components to my equipment interface component set, including an event recorder that makes it easy to create wizards and other "show me" demonstrations (only for my components, though. You could extend it for the Macromedia components, but I haven't yet).http://flashsim.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=768608087&f=2576001945&m=90510716... January 2005 newsletter with free event recorder download (for subscribers)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I wanted to get out a newsletter before starting my online sim developer class, and so I decided to write a little more about the event recorder and playback component I made (and give it away to newsletter subscribers). I also talk about disabling the normal behavior of a simulator along paths that are not relevant to specific tasks.http://www.flashsim.com/newsletter/v3n1.html |