Comments on: Flipping you the Boid

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:19:53 +0000

Im having a hard time importing Main.as- I swear my class path is correct, but it returning an error. In the mean time, the swf displays multi colored alpha characters. Is that normal? I basically just want to use the .as FlockDemo as is, but add a blur and lower opacity to the boids. If anyone has any insight on this, that would be totally appreciated. Thanks for reading. Ryan

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:41:10 +0000

This is really amazing! Great information and great code.

By: Soulwire

Soulwire — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:44:47 +0000

Hi Alan, The Vector DataType is a relatively new edition to the Flex SDK (since Flash Player 10) and is a types Array – meaning it is an Array which can only contain one type of object. It has many advantages including speed. So v = Vector. simply means v is a list of Boid objects. More here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/Vector.html

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:28:07 +0000

Hi Justin, thanks a lot for sharing this. Your entire blog is incredible. I am wondering if you can answer a question about your syntax. I’m a little confused when I see “Vector.” in the source code where you specify a Datatype. Is that a way of referencing the “Boid” class? I’ve just never seen the less than/greater than symbol used there before… Is Boid a subclass of “Vector”?

Thanks!

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By: ahtu

ahtu — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:13:52 +0000

This works really well. Did you optimize it after you put up the source? When I compile it, it can’t handle nearly that many boids. Like 120 is laggy already.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:46:06 +0000

I really liked your blog! nice

By: Arold

Arold — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:36:46 +0000

using the GraphicsDemo:
// How to use custom graphics with the Boid class
if i wanted to replace the Vector objects with a new MovieClip how do i go about doing that.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:45:55 +0000

is that possible to use boid as a mask?

By: Sharedtut

Sharedtut — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:38:12 +0000

Great article, thank you for sharing.