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Tutorial: Creating an Actionscript3-Only AIR Project

I spent some time searching the net trying to figure out how to make an Actionscript3-Only AIR Project and pieced together a bunch of information I though I’d share in a short tutorial.  Note that this method requires Flex Builder 3.

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Tags: actionscript, air, tutorial

Tutorial: Creating a Dynamic Starfield with the Flint Particle System

If you’re creating any sort of interactive environment in space in actionscript 3, this may be of interest to you: Tutorial: Creating a Dynamic Starfield wit the Flint Particle System

The basic concept:

• Set up 4 particle emitters just outside the 4 edges of the screen
• Feed the Starfield a velocity vector from your ship’s movement engine
• use the velocity vector to give each generated particle a velocity opposite that of the ship
• use the built-in garbage collector of the Flint Particle System to destroy stars that go off screen

Tags: actionscript 3, Flex, flint particle system, starfield, tutorial