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Hi. I’ve created a javascript animation demo using your flash car demo. I didn’t really use the tutorial (quite pointless in javascript) but I tried to replicate the animation using javascript only. Since I can’t make graphics for ****, I’ve gone ahead and used your graphics for that. Gave you full credit where due. Hope you dont mind.
You can view the demo at http://car.qfox.nl/
The blog post is at http://qfox.nl/notes?75
Hi Peter,
No no, I don’t mind at all! In fact, this is really interesting. It runs really smoothly too (more so than I got it to run in Flash, heh).
It sounds like you use a very similar technique to mine (with containers) but obviously translated to JS, instead of using AS.
Thanks for letting me know about it 🙂 Awesome stuff, I’ll be subscribing to your blog.
Micheal, tired to send request through the contact form. Not all sure why as fields and cookies are completed. Not sure where to post this so please feel free to delete this.
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Whoops — I had it set to require a minimum message length of 1000 characters! I… don’t know why I did that. Changed to 25 😉 Thanks for letting me know!
Works like a charm only had 678 char in message never thought to write more than that as I thought that was a little wordy 🙂 so glad I posted
Hi Michael,
I know this page is old, but I’m in dire need of your help for one of the tutorials, part 3, in particular. No matter what I do, I can’t get my PlayScreen to show up! It’s still a gray background! I changed the base class to AvoiderGame and the class shows as PlayScreen and the background is aligned correctly but it doesn’t show up everytime I test it! Could I email you the files to see what I am doing wrong?