Comments on: Animated Bitmap Class

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:48:25 +0000

What is RingClass? Is it missing?
Thank you

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:47:45 +0000

Thanks for you answer before on my short post about variable names

I wrote a class that is based on the same concept you have here. My version loops through a MovieClip to create a BitmapData array, so the animation can be embedded compressed as Flash Video. Here is the article, where I discuss the pros and cons of my approach (source code included).

Cheers, Nicolas

By: AS3 – 30 Classes bem úteis! « SuperAtivos

AS3 – 30 Classes bem úteis! « SuperAtivos — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:43:36 +0000

[...] Animated BitMap – http://blog.hexagonstar.com/animatedbitmapclass/ [...]

By: Nick Wiggill

Nick Wiggill — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:57:37 +0000

Sascha, this is just great, and the source is so simple. I’ve had my eye on it for almost a year now, and have finally popped it into the game I’m developing. Smacks of sweetness. Should’ve been one of the Adobe DisplayObject classes.

Nice work!!

PS. You have the best website header too, I am jealous. Paradroid ‘90 forever!

By: createmo

createmo — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:29:24 +0000

Thank you for your website
I made with photoshop backgrounds for myspace or youtube and ect..
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/5b8ksl
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!

By: Flash Class | AS3 Classes part 4 | Lemlinh.com

Flash Class | AS3 Classes part 4 | Lemlinh.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:55:31 +0000

[...] Read more [...]

By: 30 Classes AS3 bem úteis! - Sandro Molines

30 Classes AS3 bem úteis! - Sandro Molines — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:20:33 +0000

[...] Animated BitMap – http://blog.hexagonstar.com/animatedbitmapclass/ [...]

By: Classes úteis de AS3 » José Fernando Carvalho

Classes úteis de AS3 » José Fernando Carvalho — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:16:36 +0000

[...] Animated BitMap – http://blog.hexagonstar.com/animatedbitmapclass/ [...]

By: 30 Classes AS3 bem úteis! | TSW - That Should Work

30 Classes AS3 bem úteis! | TSW - That Should Work — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:24:47 +0000

[...] Animated BitMap – http://blog.hexagonstar.com/animatedbitmapclass/ [...]

By: AS3 |19 Custom AS3 Classes Roundup « Flash Enabled Blog

AS3 |19 Custom AS3 Classes Roundup « Flash Enabled Blog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:16:00 +0000

[...] Animated Bitmap [...]

By: Cem Ozturk

Cem Ozturk — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:42:57 +0000

Hello,

Open demo, change document class as ” xPos += sizeW + 50; ” and boom! When animated objects do not touch each other or have a little distance between them, framerate fails, they start to run slow…

By: themautrix

themautrix — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:24:55 +0000

mm I was having some problems loading big images with strings like these..

“images/gif/SpideySequence01.gif”
“http://www.mausart.com/images/gif/SpideySequence01.gif”

but no problem with this one
“http://www.merimoreno.com/projects/mausart/images/gif/SpideySequence01.gif”

I have my domain(www.mausart.com) with redirected url to that other domain..so maybe was that

have to change and add more things…pls have a watch…U think it’s chumpky because of the Carousel class is there when the animated bitmap is?
maybe both are using some kind of bitmap snapshot and no gogd together ..thanks for your awesome class, now I can use only one Animated Bitmap per cycle

I really would like to make my characters much more alive and interactive with this old school technique, new as3 awesome class

For anyone wanting to help me a little, pls add me to your msn account “themautrix AT hotmail.com”

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:21:21 +0000

well you could concatenate the images together but then at some point there’s the bitmap size limit as stated above. In a project I’ve worked on some days ago I had a similar problem. I had to load a huge image with a dimension of 4096×3072. The loading itself was no problem but this wouldn’t fit on a Bitmap object so you have to use scrollRect to ‘cut out’ parts of the images into smaller pieces … e.g.

imageBitmap.scrollRect = new Rectangle(0, 0, 1024, 1024);
var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(1024, 1024, false);
bd.draw(imageBitmap);

I hope this helps. Otherwise maybe you might have more luck in a forum like actionscript.org.

By: themautrix

themautrix — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:46:52 +0000

how can I externally load 4 png files, and make also dinamically a bitmapdata with all them, so it would be the whole sequence in one AnimatedBitmap.

I mean, how can I “add” bitmaps just like strings do?

By: themautrix

themautrix — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:43:31 +0000

ok, I have some 32 images walk cycles…240×320, total sequence is 7680×320.
Last thing wich works..is to split it in 4 different images, so I can externally load them…after that, I use some Switchs to read the getCurrentFrame, and compare it to getTotalFrames, so it can stop and removeChild the actual Animated Bitmap and plays the next…I am new to as3 sure someone can help me making my code a lot more efficient…as I just write all needed functions because there are lot I dont know how to fit in my project..thanks

have a look at this…
http://mausart.pastebin.com/m296194ee

i am not sure what to do to remove the animated bitmaps wich is playing

By: admin

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:44:34 +0000

Not sure about that loaded files would have a size restriction but the Flash Bitmap object has a restriction to something roughly over 3000×3000 (exact values are in the docs). If you need to display larger bitmaps that that then there’s a workaround though using DisplayObject.scrollRect. I’m not sure if this is related to your problem however.

By: themautrix

themautrix — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:40:54 +0000

sorry i am trying to use this amazing class..but i can’t get as3 to load dinamically an external *.png file wich is 7680×320, i need to load external images, or project would be very big, using library images…
using library images i had to split a 32 frames walk cycle in 16 from 10240×320 to 5120×320, and check last frame in those sequences to start the next..

pls, any workaround for the maximum size of an external image file?

By: Developer

Developer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:22:01 +0000

Cool, Thanks for sharing.

By: Actionscript Classes

Actionscript Classes — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:40:39 +0000

[...] http://labs.hexagonstar.com/animatedbitmapclass/ [...]

By: sascha/hdrs

sascha/hdrs — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:28:35 +0000

Thats right! The embed meta tag is only for use with the Flex compiler (but not necessarily for Flex-only projects).