Tutorial Details
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Platform: Flash
- Language: AS3
- Software used: Flash Professional CS5
- Estimated Completion Time: 1-2 hours
- Libraries Used: TweenMax, TUIO
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It’s time for another excellent Active Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a Pong game that can be controlled by moving your hands, and a picture gallery that can be navigated in the style of Minority Report — all in the browser’s Flash Player with no drivers required, if you’re on the Mac.
Preview
Let’s take a look at what we will be working towards. First, a Pong game where each paddle is controlled by a player’s hand:
Second, an image gallery with gesture control, in the style of Minority Report:
Zoom is two hands on one image and then you expand them away from each other.
Rotate is two hands on an image, one going up and the other going down.
Will It Work for Me?
You’ll need a Kinect, of course! Assuming you have that, if you’re on a Mac, it’s very easy to get this working; no drivers are required. On Windows it’s a little more fiddly: you’ll need to install some drivers, and the libraries to make Flash recognise the Kinect are still in beta and not as polished as the Mac versions.
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I find it hilarious that Microsoft’s Kinect works better on a Mac!
Why is it hilarious? Microsoft doesnt build PC’s.
where is the tutorial it self I just find the source files
I found it in the source files thanks
This tutorial is not correct..
You say to comment some functions in the interface, but it will fire up errors in the ITuioClient, and for me the tutorial is not working. So it looks like you forgot something…
I can’t control flash, even though I have set up correctly the TuioKinect app (near and far threshold)…
What should I do?
Hey Andrea, sorry that you’re experiencing problems.
Are you sure you commented out the correct lines? The code was tested before publishing. Have you tried taking Jon’s code, compiling it, and testing that?
The same for me too..
The example only works online..
Even the finished examples do not work for me when I compile them..
I dont think that there is a mistake in the tutorial but that something is missing on the file associations or the structure of the folders or… i dont know..
I got Premium Membership for this tutorial and its a shame that I cant make it work!!
I need to finish a project Ive been trying to finish for the past couple of months and I hoped that this would be my solution…
Hope that we can figure the problem out soon!!
Hey John, I spoke to Jon and here’s what he said:
“It could possibly be a security issue with his player. Sometimes that can happen when using sockets.
He needs to right-click on the player, choose “security settings” and then make sure that the list of allowed directories includes the location of his Flash files.
You don’t get this error when running in browsers I think, as Flash lets you run sockets locally through browsers. ”
Take a look and let me know whether that helps.
YES!!
Selected the files directly in the Global Settings on the Browser (not the System Preferences on Mac) and everything is working like charm!!!
CANT WAIT!!! Hope I’ll be able to finish my project on time… got 3 more days!!
Thanx and hope that I can get some more help if i get stuck in anything in the process.
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for your great written tutorial. but, just like the others above, i still can’t run the flash on my mac. the online demo works fine, but no reaction on the files from the zip. John, you said u did managed it? could u explain it in detail?
docent work for me either. i have used the global settings before to allow a google map API to run from a local folder so I’m aware of this security issue.
this is very odd! according to the Terminal window it states that its serving to Flash and I have also added the folder location in global settings with no luck. from the zip file i have had to re-publish the finished solutions in order to generate a HTML file. I have tried both Safari and Firefox. Can you run the SWF directly from the folder? – assuming you have set its security permissions in the global settings.
the kinect LED is blinking steadily. should this be a solid green not blinking?
are there any basic tests you can run to test to see if a connection is being made to Kinect? if so how do you go about this?
some screenshots and help on this would be appreciated. saw this tutorial thought it was awesome but gutted i can’t get this to work!!! I’m not a flash developer novice either!! its very very odd!!
update: i downloaded OpenKinect AS3 experiments from:
https://github.com/silviopaganini/openKinect-as3-experiments
run the file TuioKinect app from inside the libs folder and the Kinect is definitely working as i wave my hands in the quad viewports :-)
so definitely looks like a Flash security global issue!!
Could it be due to the fact that I’m running Lion and/OR a particular Flash Player version? I am running the latest.