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This is a Banner ad for iShares, it contains a small Isometric building block game. The aim is to create the 3D iShares logo out of the scattered building blocks. This game was built on top of an AS2 Isometric engine I developed to be lite weight for the purposes of serving through banner hosting and media companies.

It has an autoplay feature which kicks in after 30seconds and it has an “Auto Build” feature, click the button in the bottom left to activate.

Click here to replay.

I was having a beer with one of my very talented colleagues Robert Shearing (robshearing.com) and we got to talking about the make-up of the various easing equations for usage in Tween engines such as TweenLite. Most of these equations are still based on Robert Penner’s original 11 easing equations: Circ, Cubic, Elastic, Expo, Linear, Quad, Quart, Quint and Sine.

After a few beers we decided that we needed to create a new Easing equation. We figured that is if Quint was to the power of 5, then logically we create an equation to the power of 6.. but what to call it.. after a few more beers we figured if Quart is the power of 4 and Quint is the power of 5 then the power of 6 should be simply called “Sex”. Coincidentally, this is also the Latin word for six.

This gives us a new, slightly sharper Ease and the bonus ability to have some really cool easing combinations such as Sex.EaseIn, Sex.EaseOut and everyones favorite, Sex.EaseInOut.

Get the [Source].

Enjoy your new equation, if you use it on a project please drop us a link in the comments below and please remember, always practice safe Sex.

I wanted a nice, simple, small FPS counter that displayed an Average FPS over a set number of frames, eg: 22fps average over 10 frames.

I managed to find a basic class that I modified to include an average FPS parameter and a threshold parameter that turns the FPS Background to RED if the FPS drops below the threshhold.

Source: [fps_example]

Today Sony launched their new Playstation 3 web site which I was responisble for creating. I built this for some of the talented people over at Tequila, design by Craig Brooks, downloadable widget by Danny McGillick.

This site presented a few unique challenges. First of all it was to feature a pseudo-3D transition for the load screen but was asked not to use an propitiatory 3D software such as Papervision. The next challenge was to create a flowing navigational menu that is fed from a dynamic XML feed with random positioning of the nav items. The site also needed to feature a “Favorites” system that allowed user to add their favorites sites to a “bookmark” style menu on the site, however due to technical restraints I was not to use a database, this meant storing the “Favorites” in browser cookies and writing a quick interface to access the cookies. Finally the site was built on top of the Kohana PHP framework and an alternate HTML only version developed by the brilliant Luke Schreur. The site features 9 different “Skins”, refresh on the landing page to get a new random skin.

Head on over to http://www.playstation3.com.au to check it out.

Some Flash banners for a full a page take over of Cnet Australia that I created for Panasonic’s new High Definition Blu Ray recorder, quite a cool campaign running on TV and various media at the moment. Design by Nathan Willdig of Rhodes Wingrove.

Take a look at:

http://www.cnet.com.au

Firefox 3 on Windows using wmode transparent or opaque introduces a new default style for the object element; it treats it like an active link.

Here’s the fix, simple CSS rule on object element.

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
    object { outline:none; }
</style>

Today we rolled out the new version of the Sanity Australia web site. Several months of blood, sweat and late nights went into this one. It’s a major e-commerce site built for Australias biggest music and dvd retailer. I was responsible for the front-end development and .NET integration.

Take a look at:

http://www.sanity.com.au

It’s officially official, PaperivisonShowcase.com has undergone it’s final redesign and it has been launched on the Papervision Blogs. It’s a great honor to be joining the official Papervision team and I hope to find other interesting ways to help support the PV3D community.

I’ve also got some ideas for a few enhancements to the site and I’m adding Papervision projects daily so check it out, the best Papervision web sites at PapervisionShowcase.com

A preview of the new Crust site featuring quite a cool Carousel I created from pre-rendered FLV video. I did a version of this Carousel in Papervision 3D but decided to run with a 3D pre-rendered version as the level of interactivity didnt require a full PV3D application.

The Carousel uses 2 small FLVs, one for the scrolling and one for the box opening. I simply loop part of the scrolling video to allow the boxes to slide multiple times and reverse the videos for animating the slide in the opposite direction or to close the box lids. I then load the Pizza PNG itself under a dynamic mask on top of the FLV along with the Pizza information from an XML web service. Video rendering by Jonathan Miranda.

ActionScript 3, Tweenlite, Bulkloader.

Cool effect. Check it out at:
http://www.scottking.com.au/portfolio/crust/

Last week I launched version 2 of our Olympus PEN promotional site. This site has a range of Flash including a Flickr based Papervision 3D Gallery and competition, 360 Product spinners, YouTube videos and informational panels.

http://pen.olympus.com.au

Design: Jonathan Miranda, Glen McPherson, Aliza Nordin