how do i make pro flash stickers e.g mesh maker,mappingmaker

katebrookes · Joined: 20 Mar 2010 Posts: 45 Location: United Kingdom

how do i. i cant make flash stickers that well. like brilliant deliverance's pose maker,mapping and sub mesh tool. and i need to make something for the developers of imvu.
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DevAlexandria · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 462 Location: USA - PA

Most Use Gimp/Photoshop.
Or You Can Use Gickr
If You Like To Learn How To Do It For Gimp/Photoshop Read This
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Zeb_disabled_62082636 · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:32 am Post subject:

You should see this video.
You might get an idea of â€‹â€‹it all.
If you see the video.

Click here.

Greetings,
Zeb

micronjan · Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 407 Location: United Kingdom

Making mesh flash things would be so hard to do. But good luck with it the more tools that are out there the better for the developers Smile

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Jamo · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 12895 Location: United Kingdom

You need to learn action script first off... the language you code flash applets in.

then it uses some fancy thing that works with cal3D (imvu's 3D engine)

beyond that, idk

you probably picked the hardest thing to possibly do, and as far as im aware only deliverance has managed it

lets just say, she deserves every credit she earns from those stickers.
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Aesica · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 4325 Location: USA - WA

If you want to make flash stickers that are more than just dinky looping animations, you pretty much need to be a programmer. Actionscript is essentially a programming language like Java, C#, Javascript, etc so if you don't already have programming experience then you're going to have a bitch of a time getting started with it.

Actionscript is pretty powerful in what it's capable of doing in terms of both animation as well as user interactivity.

Example

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how good you are at gimp/photoshop/whatever, to make this kind of stuff happen, you'll be working code--many lines of it, in fact.

PS: Some people in this thread are confusing "flash stickers" with "animated stickers." They are not the same; animated stickers are, in most cases, just animated gifs. Flash stickers in particular are rendered using adobe flash player. Unlike animated gifs, flash stickers can have more than 256 colors, partial transparency, and user interactivity.
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Marilena · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4891 Location: Italy

so flash can be applied on 3d meshes?
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Aesica · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 4325 Location: USA - WA

Marilena · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4891 Location: Italy

thanks for the answer..it looks like complex..are there any flash product i can look at?
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Aesica · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 4325 Location: USA - WA

Marilena · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4891 Location: Italy

i mean flash product in the imvu 3d catalog Smile

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Aesica · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 4325 Location: USA - WA

Well, looking at your catalog specifically, you have a bunch of flash-based stickers. So, pretty much keep up with whatever you've been doing. Very Happy

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Marilena · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4891 Location: Italy

no i didn't mean flash stickers Smile

i meant flash applied to 3d meshes.. (it was the part i didn't understand)
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Aesica · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 4325 Location: USA - WA

Well, you have to know how the mesh stuff works, first. Like inside and out. This is pretty much how you make any program (Program A) interact with the data used by another (Program B):

If Program B expects user input that is formatted like so: ("John Doe", 29, "Construction Worker")

Then when you're making Program A, you have to make it so that it can output data that is compatible: ("Jane Doe", 35, "Pooper Scooper")

I don't know crap about mesh stuff myself, but I can tell you that flash can be tricky to export files with. You'll likely need to run the data through a server-side script, using something like a PHP backend for your flash application when the user wants to save (or load) a file. So if you don't have access to your own PHP server, you might be out of luck.

Perhaps there's an easier way to be found via searching, though. If you find it, tell me. Smile

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Marilena · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4891 Location: Italy

oooh what a mess! Smile

maybe i didn't use the right words but i didn't find 3d meshes with flash.. Sad

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