Loading ...Recently I’ve been trying to put together a collection of AS3 components for some writing and training I’m doing about… er… AS3 components. I want to write a series of posts here, but I also have another column, book, and video training in the works, in which they may appear. With a fair amount of focus on this effort, I wanted to look around for some great examples, ranging from open source to commercial, simple to advanced.
In the process, I happened upon TxEff from Jumpeye Components. TxEff is a spectacular text-effects component with a really great configuration utility that allows you to easily modify all the effects without writing any code. You can also configure the effects without the utility using XML. Written in AS3, it performs really well and Jumpeye did a great job, soup to nuts. You can even add on to the component with additional effects.
I haven’t been able to try any of the additional effect libraries, but I decided to try a simple test that fits in well with the first post in this series. I wanted to see how easy it would be to create a simple effect using the online utility. I wanted to create something that anyone could do, right out o the box. I was pretty impressed with how easy it was to adjust the many parameters and found myself with the problem of too much goodness to choose from. Then I decided to test the defaults of one of the new effects, 3DCamFocus. Here it is:
