In this Quick Tip we will create a custom crosshair along with a gunshot sound. This could be the basis for a shoot-’em-up game. In this example, we place bullet holes on the stage at the point where you click.
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Quick Tip: Pause, Slow Motion & Double-Time in Unity
Pausing a Unity game is easy. There are a couple of things you should be aware of, but we’ll get to those at the end of this tip. We’re going to add a few simple GUI buttons to control time within a basic Unity project.
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Declarative Interactivity with Actions & Triggers in Silverlight
The Expression Blend design tool aims to keep designers productive by giving them access to pre-packaged components that enable common interactive tasks to be performed without writing additional code.
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This entry is part 15 of 15 in the Silverlight for Beginners Session
Understanding Visual States in Silverlight
User interfaces change state. An email client might have online/offline views and might display emails in full/collapsed views. At a more granular level, a CheckBox control might have states like checked, unchecked, enabled, disabled and so on. This screencast looks at how the Silverlight UI model handles state changes.
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This entry is part 14 of 15 in the Silverlight for Beginners Session
Quick Introduction: Flash UILoader and UIScrollbar Components
In this Quick Introduction to the Flash Professional Components, we’re going to look at the UILoader and UIScrollbar.
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Generate Video Captions with Soundbooth and Flash
It seems as though we are inundated with video on the web. In many respects, this is not an unexpected phenomena but video is undergoing a rather quiet shift in perception. For the past several years, video has been regarded as content taking up space on the web page. A couple of years back, it slowly dawned on a few people that even though video is indeed content, it is the video’s data that could have huge potential.
In this tutorial I am going to show you one example of how this works. We are going to take the audio track out of a video file, transcribe it and then use that transcription to create video captions in Flash.
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