Programming games

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Programming games

• Acquiring video
• sound
• Homework complete projects (rps, bb, cb). Start
  video.

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Making your own video for Flash playback

• Shoot video
• Upload to computer
• Edit
• Produce .flv
• Create Flash movie and test
• Publish Flash movie
• Upload .html, .swf, and all the .flv files to the
  server

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Initial steps

• Shoot (?) video
• Upload to computer

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Producing .flv

• Just like images, there are different encodings
  for videos.
• wmv, mov, avi, dv, .
• Adobe Flash CS4 Media Encoder will accept many
  different types and produce an .flv file (an .flv
  version of the same video clip)
• Can set quality settings
• Tradeoff size (space on server, loading time)
  versus quality

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Start queue

• Creating the .flv file takes a while.
• You can do more than one encoding at a time.
• The name of each file is the same name, with
  filetype .flv
• Use the pre-set settings OR get into more detail
• Higher quality means larger files

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Sound

• Two (at least) methods for incorporating sound
  into Flash
• All coding create Sound objects, set source of
  sound, play. Can manipulate volume, pan, etc.
  using Soundchannel. Also, register and handle
  events, including when sound has been loaded.
• Frame associate start of sound with frame.

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Acquire sound

• Many types of sound. For coding method, need mp3
• Find on-line sound editors.
• Need to know location (URL) of sound file(s).

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Coding method

• import flash.media.Sound
• import flash.net.URLRequest
• var urlnameString "missle.mp3"
• var requestsfURLRequest new URLRequest(urlname)
  
• var msoundSound new Sound(requestsf)
• // at appropriate place in the code
• msound.play()

This file is located in the same folder on my
computer. It doesn't have to be.
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Frame method

• File/Import/Import to Library
• Select sound file(s).
• Click on appropriate frame in timeline
• In property panel, select Sound file.
• You can select a set effect and/or edit the sound.

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Cautions

• In either method, need to be aware that sound
  lasts certain amount of time.
• Be careful about starting sound again and again
  (unless that is what you want)

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Homework

• Think about what you want to do
• Check with me
• Create / acquire video clip(s)