[F9/AS3] Scrolling engine

[GameSQUID]

Hi,

I've been working on a scrolling engine in Flash 9 with ActionScript 3 (registered users of Flash 8 can download the Flash 9 preview for free, what are you waiting for?)

Here it is : http://gamesquid.com..eSQUID/TileSQUID.zip

It's still a work in progress and I'll update it regulary.

The features are :

- Multiple layer types supported (at the moment only a tile layer is implemented)
- Multiple tile types supported (Tile, SuperTile, BitmapData)
- Grid-based maps or object based maps supported
- Individual bitmap-caching per layer

Any comments/suggestions?

[HotDog-Productions]

wow, preety good. Like the first game made with AS:3. cheers.
-HotDog_Productions

[GameSQUID]

At 7/6/06 09:40 PM, HotDog_Productions wrote: wow, preety good. Like the first game made with AS:3. cheers.
-HotDog_Productions

Well, it's not really a game, and it will take a while before I make a game with it, but anyone is free to make a game with it. It's free, it's fast, and it has a lot of features.

Just let me know if you use it.

[Chaz]

So can I open it in Flash 8 or is there a new version of Flash out or someting?

[GameSQUID]

Since you have Flash 8, you can download the Flash 9 PREVIEW version here for free :

http://labs.adobe.co..es/flash9as3preview/

[Chaz]

So...have they like made a Flash 9 authoring tool or just the player so far? I think i get it im not sure.

[GameSQUID]

At 7/7/06 04:37 AM, -Chaz- wrote: So...have they like made a Flash 9 authoring tool or just the player so far? I think i get it im not sure.

Follow that link I provided - it's where you can download the authoring tool. It's not an official new release, it's just Flash 8 with some new features (Flash Player 9 exporting, and Actionscript 3 compiling).

[Rudy]

At 7/7/06 04:44 AM, GameSQUID wrote:

At 7/7/06 04:37 AM, -Chaz- wrote: So...have they like made a Flash 9 authoring tool or just the player so far? I think i get it im not sure.

Follow that link I provided - it's where you can download the authoring tool. It's not an official new release, it's just Flash 8 with some new features (Flash Player 9 exporting, and Actionscript 3 compiling).

Awesome! I will surely look forward to working with Actionscript 3 and Flash 9 features.

*downloads*

[Paranoia]

Fuck, I can't put this off for any longer. I'm gonna give AS3 a try. Is the documentation any good?

[liaaaam]

Pretty nice, I'm guessing you load the png and then slice it four ways to get the four tiles? I can't be arsed opening Flash to check :P

[GameSQUID]

At 7/7/06 07:35 AM, liaaaam wrote: Pretty nice, I'm guessing you load the png and then slice it four ways to get the four tiles? I can't be arsed opening Flash to check :P

Don't bother opening the fla, all the source is in class files (com/gamesquid/tilesquid/ScrollingEngine.a
s is the most important one) :)

But yeah, I have multiple types of tiles, one is just Tile which will display a given movieclip/sprite, there's a SuperTile class which is like a group of other tiles, and finally a BitmapTile, which slices an image and grabs it's tiles out of it based on an index.