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:
All I did was choose the effect from a menu, and then adjust the background gradient to fit with the color scheme of this site. This is a small point, but I’ll emphasize the ease of use by saying that the only way it could have been easier is with access to a full color palette for the background customization. I was amazed at how well thought out this product seemed to be–far more than your average component.
I’ll tag future posts on this subject so they show up in Related Posts, and perhaps we’ll see more from Jumpeye. In the meantime, check out TxEff.
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Can you please post the code for this? I am thinking of purchasing the TxEff Components ans I would like to see how they work with 3D stuff. Thanks
@Dimitris, in this case there is no code to post! One of the great things about Jumpeye’s implementation of TxEff is that there is an online editor that creates the HTML required to render an effect.
To more directly address your question, however, keep two things in mind: First, this is a component, so the AS that actually accomplishes the text effect (the 3D you’re asking about) is not available. Second, however, the component can be configured with ActionScript, all of which is explained on the TxEff website. So, you can see the component-configuration code–the API/documentation for the product–but not the code that is used to create the effect.
You can learn more at the links in the second paragraph of the post.
lookin forward to upcoming posts in the series!
Thanks for your previous answer. what kind of font did you use for the text?