It’s time to introduce another feature involved in Ragdoll creation.
In part 1 you saw Verlet integration, now it’s time to see what is a constraint.

In mathematics, a constraint is a condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy. So basically a constraint is a condition that must be respected. In our ragdoll world, [...]

You may call it Lightbox, or Greybox, or Thickbox, but it’s always the same effect.
When you are on a page, and click on a photo or trig some event, a Lightbox is an effect that fades the pagein the background to show you new content in the foreground.
I mean this effect

In the upper example, when [...]

Particle effects are one of the most difficult effects to achieve in Flash. Try to imagine a realistic candle flame, or a realistic explosion, or a realistic smoke. Keyword: realistic. Even if you should manage to create such effects, I bet you would spend a lot of time.
A company called Desuade comes in our help [...]

If you are a regular reader you are used to see how to make things work, this time I’ll show you how not to make things work.
Do you remember the Create a Flash image gallery using photoFlow component post?
This is what I got in the ReviewMe control panel

As I was predicting in the review, the [...]

This is another headache post. I am sorry, but since there is a ball physics competition, I have to focus tutorials on ball physics.
This tutorial covers collisions between balls, and it works with any number of balls, and it’s based on Raman Pfaff’s Physics of an Elastic Collision.
What is an “elastic collision”?
From Wikipedia: “An elastic [...]

Only 2 days. That’s how much time Kevin Ward needed to solve and publish the solution of the problem posted in Throw a ball with a sling physics Flash tutorial.
You may know Kevin for his excellent post about a different approach to create a game like Line Rider, and now he come with the second [...]

When you have a blog, you want people to read it. If you want people to read it, you want people to find it. If you want people to find it, you have to promote your blog.
I am sure the quality of my posts make my readers return. Now it’s time to spread the word [...]

August 16th update: 2nd part released by Kevin Ward
Here it comes the first tutorial about some strange ways to use ball physics in a game, as said in the rules of Jay is Games competition. We have to create something original and physics related at the same time.
We’ll learn how to throw a ball with [...]

The popular flash games reviews blog, Jay is Games, is hosting a Flash game design competition.

JiG often hosts competitions, but this one has a very interesting theme for us: ball physics. How many ball tutorials did you read on this site? Maybe it’s time to code something interesting and submit to JiG before October, 1st.
You [...]

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That’s how Mochi Media introduces MochiAds.

In other words, it’s a way to [...]