Christmas comes early on ActiveDen! It’s the start of a brand new month which means it’s time once again for a fresh, fabulous, FREE ActiveDen file! In addition, we’re giving away one free file on each of the other marketplaces ( ThemeForest, AudioJungle, GraphicRiver, and VideoHive).
Author: Barisintepe
File: Magic Christmas Star
Features
- It’s magic
- It’s full of holiday cheer
- Santa likes it
- It’s 100% vector making it totally resizable
- It’s only 3kb
Usage:
You are granted ONE free usage of the item in a project, either commercial or non-commercial. You may not use the file in multiple projects unless you purchase licenses in the usual way. You may not redistribute the item in any way. If you need a different license for this file, you may purchase it here.
A big thanks for the free file, Barisintepe! Here are some of his other great files:
Also, be sure to check out this month’s free files from all the other Envato marketplaces.
What’s an “API”? A Pink Igloo? A Pig Itching? Not quite.
The Marketplace’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows the development of applications with access to a range of data from all the marketplaces such as the most popular and latest files. More sensitive data such as your account balance, recent sales, and monthly statements can also be accessed securely using your individual API key!
So what? I’m a designer – why should I be interested in geeky code interface stuff? Well, using the API you can develop apps/sites for your mobile, your desktop, or even your blog. Did I mention you can even design and style your applications however you want? Now that’s pretty cool, right?!
Since the Marketplace API was released about 6 months ago, several authors have jumped in feet first to develop some outstanding contributions for the community.
Let’s see what’s been going on…
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ActiveTuts+, the “sister” Web site of ActiveDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.
Each week on ActiveDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from ActiveTuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.
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In this tutorial I will explain how you can build a Flash gallery with Actionscript 3 and Milkbox. Milkbox is a modal window, similar to Lightbox. The advantages of milkbox are that you store the paths of your images in a XML file and call these paths via JavaScript. Milkbox supports images and SWFs and you can customize the modal window with CSS easily.
The Plan
First I will load the thumbnails in my Flash movie and position them in a grid. The columns of the grid can be changed dynamically via a global variable. Then I will add the milkbox functions to my code. So when you click on a thumbnail, the corresponding bigger image will open in the milkbox window.
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Twitter is everywhere on the Web. People are using it to keep in touch with friends, to keep abreast of specialized industry news, businesses are using it to find new customers and interact with them online, and it has already rapidly become a quick and convenient way to communicate. So it was only a matter of time before Twitter worked its way into Flash files.
Let’s take a look at some of the ways Twitter can be used with Flash both on ActiveDen and around the Web. But to start off, let’s examine a couple of very useful APIs Flash developers can use to quickly pull in and manipulate Twitter data.
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ActiveTuts+, the “sister” Web site of ActiveDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.
Each week on ActiveDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from ActiveTuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.
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ActiveTuts+, the “sister” Web site of ActiveDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.
Each week on ActiveDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from ActiveTuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.
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Everyone loves a good banner rotator and everyone loves 3D, so why not merge those two concepts together? That’s exactly what Serbian art director and designer Stefan Kovac from ProgressiveRed thought when he created CU3ER.
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The Stardust Particle Engine allows Flash developers to quickly create particle effects using an ActionScript 3 API. Particle effects such as smoke, water, fire and starfields can all be created efficiently and effectively using Stardust.
Developed by Allen Chou and released under an MIT license, this engine will allow you to create both 2D and 3D particles systems. Here are just some of the awesome features of StarDust:
- Easy to extend for custom initializers, actions, fields, deflectors, clocks, and 2D/3D renderers.
- Includes 3D extensions for ZedBox, Papervision3D, and ND3D.
- Includes a native 3D renderer.
- Supports masking (particles can be masked out for actions).
- Supports gravity and deflector simulation.
- Supports action triggers (for creating complex particle behaviors).
- Supports XML serialization.
Examples
See for yourself how effective StarDust is by clicking on the examples below to see what can be achieved:
More Information
For full details and to download and start using StarDust, check out the official project home page on Google Code. We’d love to hear from you in the comments to this post if you have previously used StarDust or think that you might use it in a future ActiveDen submission!
ActiveTuts+, the “sister” Web site of ActiveDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.
Each week on ActiveDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from ActiveTuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.
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