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  • Paperback: 568 pages
  • Publisher: FRIENDS OF ED (4 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590597915
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590597910
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.1 x 3.3 cm
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ActionScript animation (rather than tweened animation created within the Flash IDE) is a very popular discipline for Flash developers to learn, as it allows for the creation of smaller, more realistic, more dynamic, animated Flash movies, with realistic physics, such as gravity and collisions. This essential skill set has been learned by many Flash developers through Keith Peter's best-selling ActionScript animation book—Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making things move... ...and now we've updated it to ActionScript 3, Adobe's new and improved scripting language—all of the code has been updated, and some new techniques have been added to take advantage of ActionScript 3's new features, including including the display list and new event architecture. The code can be used with the Flash 9 IDE, Flex Builder 2, or the free Flex 2 SDK.

About the Author
Keith Peters is a Flash developer in the Boston area. He has been working
with Flash since 1999 and is currently a Senior Flash Developer at
Brightcove. Keith has been a contributing author to
nine other Friends of ED books. His personal website features an active blog, over 700 open source Flash experiments, and lots
of other random Flash-related stuff.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and Inspiring, 21 Oct 2007
By Darren Osadchuk (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) - See all my reviews
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"Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move" is a new edition of Keith Peters' "Foundation ActionScript Animation". The main difference, implicit in the title, is that the code in the new edition has been updated to use ActionScript 3 in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.

If you're familiar with Keith Peters and the tutorials on his bit-101 blog, you'll have some idea of the kinds of things covered in this book. Creating animation with ActionScript is all about math, and this book dives right in. Peters' writing style is clean and direct. Even if you're not comfortable with math, difficult concepts are explained clearly and simply. I already have other books on my shelf devoted just to physics and trigonometry, but "Making Things Move" comes very close to replacing those altogether by with its effective explanations of the concepts behind the code.

After the introductory chapters, which include an AS3 primer (more on that below), Peters begins by covering the most basic type of animation. Subsequent chapters build on the foundation created by the previous chapters. As new concepts and formulas are introduced, what started out as a simple ball moving across the screen becomes something much more sophisticated. In a relatively short period of time, you'll have multiple objects zipping around the stage, colliding and interacting with one another. Seeing those basic elements repeated and tweaked helps reinforce what you learned earlier on.

This edition follows the same well-structured format as the previous edition. Each chapter covers just the right amount of material, so you never feel like you're taking in too much at a time. Like any good book on programming, it encourages and rewards a leisurely pace. Simply running the sample code to see what it does before moving on to the next section will teach you something, but it won't exhaust what you can get out of this book. Peters points out where you can experiment with the code, suggesting values that you can change to see what effect it has on the animation. Playing around with the sample code will deepen your understanding of what's happening, so it's worth taking your time.

As I mentioned earlier, the book opens with a short primer on ActionScript 3.0. If you're at all familiar with Object-Oriented Programming in ActionScript 2, the primer does a nice job of bringing you sufficiently up-to-date with what's new/different in AS3 to help you get the most out of the book. If you've never done any OOP with ActionScript before, the chapter provides enough information to get you going, and you can use the framework Peters provides and concentrate on the animation.

(If you are familiar with AS2, and don't see yourself making the jump to AS3 in the very near future, I'd recommend that you buy this book instead of the version specifically for AS2. The principles are the same, and the code can be ported to AS2. Plus, when you finally do start working with AS3, you'll be ready to go.)

Besides what you'll learn directly, this book is valuable for the ideas and inspiration it provides. I didn't get very far into the book before I was adapting the code to work in my own projects, and also thinking of games and user interface elements that I could build around some of the concepts in the book. Just one such idea can repay your investment of time and money. All in all, if you have any interest in using ActionScript for animation, this book belongs in your library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on Actionscript that i have read, 25 May 2008
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I have read a few books on Actionscript and i must say that this book is top of my list. Keith Peters does very well in explaining every example, which makes this book a lot of fun to read. There is a lot of practical examples to get stuck into, which i think is very important when learning actionscript! Also be prepared to learn a lot on trigonometry and Math!! which i must say isn't as hard as i thought. Enjoy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Guide to Actionscript 3.0 Motion/Physics Concepts, 26 Aug 2008
A brilliant book that has remained a solid reference for many of my flash projects. The code can get a little complicated in later chapters, but the book covers all the base concepts in the first few sections.

Highly recommended for beginners/intermediate scripters, or for people who are having a hard time moving from AS2 to AS3.
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