The Tech Labs, a very cool site with complete tutorials around Air, Flash and Flex published a tutorial (split in 3 articles) explaining how to create from scratch a PicLens style application using Flex and Away 3D. Alejandro Santander is the author, he is also one of the Away 3D contributors developing great things on [...]

Thanks to Mike Chambers. Now the new ActionScript reference for RIA development is ready to download. It cover all Adobe Flash Player 10 / Adobe Flex® 3.2 / Adobe AIR™ 1.5 API. You can download the pdf from the following URL.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/atp_ria_guide.html

I think more of the flash coder will make use of animation library for daily work. The gTween from gskinner now go beta 3.
Here’s the full list of beta 3 updates:

fixed a bug with smart rotation
added rotationProperties static property to specify properties to apply smartRotation to
fixed bug with proxy method calls not [...]

Time for another Flash and actionscript 3 Tutorials Roundup. Some AS3 programming tutorials, with cool animations or effects, and even creating a flash site from scratch. Hope that will help you to increase your flash designer and developer skills.
1 – 3D Particles Experiments in AS3 and Flash CS3

Four stunning 3D particle experiments by Dan Gries. [...]

APE Physics tutorial for actionscript 3

APE – Actionscript Physics Engine tutorial – Part 1
APE – Actionscript Physics Engine tutorial – Part 2

Exploring the ActionScript Physics Engine in Flex

Last week i’ve posted a web roundup article regarding Flash 3D Engine called Papervision 3D. This time, i will be showing you more cool articles but about another awesome 3d engine called Away3D. You can find more about them at their official site.
Starting up with Away 3D

Here is another post full of new AS3 classes, you cn use in your own projects.
- Pixelator – Transition effect
A class that take two displayobjects and create a transition between the both
- GraphicsUtil – A Utility Class for Drawing Arrows
Actionscript class for drawing arrows.
ACTIONSCRIPT DRAWING CLASSES
com.jR.Drawing.Base
com.jR.Drawing.Ellipse
com.jR.Drawing.Polygon
com.jR.Drawing.Rectangle
com.jR.Drawing.Triangle
- FullScreen Object Resize Class
The NpFSObjectResize Class is a fairly simple [...]

Flash 3D engines brought to Internet a new dimension to designers present their work. Great works were made since Papervision 3D and other know 3D engines appeared. Today i bring you some cool stuff, that you can use in your own projects. If you don’t know yet how to start with Papervision 3d you might [...]

The Tech Labs has just published a new tutorial, about expanding the Videoplayer, with new features like, playlist, fullscreen support, save volume and clickable progress/volume bar. Don’t miss this great how-to article by Rafael Nünlist from Orange8.
You can see the demo player here.

Google has recently launched the AS3 version their well know Maps API, increasing the number of available AS3 maps API. In order to give a clear picture of the available maps API at this moment i decided today to create this list so you can choose which best fit your needs. BTW, if you know [...]