Create amazing particle effects in Flash with Partigen component

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 with the most complete Flash particle generator ever.

Partigen

Partigen is a Flash component that allow the user to crate extremely realistic particle effects in Flash. Moreover, all effects are generated in real time, there isn’t anything pre-rendered, and this gives us the complete control over effects. Read more

How to get a ReviewMe review rejected

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 review did not get paid, probably for allowing comments.

Anyway, Photoflow remains a good component.

It would be nice to have a comment from the guys at Flashloaded.

Got a page in the Million Dollar Wiki

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 and get some new readers.

That’s why I bought the Tutorials keyword on the Million Dollar Wiki.

You may wonder what is the Million Dollar Wiki.

It’s a very creative project attempting to create a pay per page version of Wikipedia. You choose a keyword, buy the page and you can edit it as you want. You can place your links, sell your products, include your pay per click sponsor or whatsoever.

A page costs $100. Why did I spend $100 for a page? There are more than two reasons: Read more

Create a Flash image gallery using photoFlow component

When I am designing a web site or a web presentation, I always look for a nice way to show photos. No matter how many time you may spend on the design, nowadays if you don’t show your pictures in an effective way, your work will look cheap.

The hand that will help you a lot to manage this problem is photoFlow, a Flash component that will display multiple images in a vrey interesting way. The guys at Flashloaded know they have released a nice component, so they want me to review their work through this ReviewMe post.

First of all let’s see how does it look:

All your photos will be stacked in perspective behind the active photo, and the user can browse them clicking on a photo, acting on the slider or watch them cycle as in a slideshow. Read more

Flash Highscore Component using Php and MySql

Probably one of the main reasons people play casual games in internet is the challenge they provides with their highscore tables.

In my case, getting my name close to the top players in a game gives me the will to make another attempt and play the game again.

Unfortunately, building an highscore table in flash is not so easy… this is due to a security problem.

The first thing we need to know is that Flash+PHP is totally insecure. What can we do? We have to encrypt data in order to make cheater’s life very hard. In order to do this, a solid knowledge about backend scripting, encryption, php and MySql is required.

This is where Flash Highscore Component (FHC from now on) by Components for Flash (CF from now on) comes to save our lives.

It help us with an easy to use highscore system that does not require any knowledge about backend scripting or encryption. Just send the players name and score to the component and it will take care of the rest.

Henrik from CF sent me the component to make this review. I have not tested it already, as I am writing the review as I am opening the zipped file.

Let’s see how does it work. Read more

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