Creating effects such as Smoke or Fire is always a bit of a trick, it’s something I’ve wanted to have a crack at for a long time and finally got the opportunity recently.

Smokin:

http://scottking.com.au/portfolio/worldkitchen/

Exciting stuff! Away 3D now has GPU support of the Molehill APIs for the up-coming Flash 3D player upgrade!!! Finally proper 3D accelerated 3D hits the web!!! Bring it on!

Further reading:

http://away3d.com/away3d-4-0-alpha-release-broomstick

First post of 2011 and it’s all about some experiments. Firstly with a 3D bump mapping algorithm which I decided to apply to some awesome Jasper Goodall works after seeing him speak at Semi-Permanent.

Check it out:
http://scottking.com.au/portfolio/jasp/

Jasper Goodall 3D Test

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. Agency: 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