Today Adobe have released a beta version of Flash Player 10 to the masses. Its available to download now on Adobe Labs, there you will find various demos that showcase some of the new features in the player.
The latest player features some of the most requested features since the release of the last version of the Flash Player:
Bi-Directional Text Support - People have been asking for this for years.
3d Effects - Move DisplayObjects around in 3d space with Actionscript.
Dynamic sound generation - Andre Michelle, eat your heart out.
FileReference runtime access to files without sending the file to the server first.
Typed Arrays - AKA Vectors (An array that contains only data of the same type).
GPU Blitting/Compositing - Faster rendering old and new Flash Movies.
Custom Filters - Get more info about Adobe Pixel Blender, a new programming language that allows you to create your own super fast filters by manipulating pixels.
I am very, very excited about this release primarily because its now easy to create truly localized worldwide websites in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and all the other languages that have been tricky business in the past. I dont think it is as ground-breaking as Flash Player 9 which was a huge leap forward, but there are still some pretty hefty game-changing features in this one. I have on concern already and that is that i am worried that the 3d Effects are going to be misused/overused now its so easy and we will have another Skip Intro era.
Going through the J.E. Church videos now. Didn’t see anything about sound creation, though. That’s great news.
Love the new site design, BTW.
-glennnnnn
I for one, can not wait to over use the 3d effects. I could care less about usability.
Very cool features. My favorites are:
1- Bi-Directional Text Support
2- 3d Effects
3D
:)
this’s good stuff
Hey, Guy, I’d be curious if you knew anything about how the new animation/timeline model in Flash Authoring we’ve seen will affect JSFL support of timeline commands? Will backwards compatibility be broken? I know you have a lot of JSFL knowledge and I have a number of timeline JSFL commands I rely on at the moment…
These are indeed great new features, yet the 3D support could have been much better if adobe just adopted papervision 3D engine and made native APIs out of it, 3D in flash can’t just be limited to what actionSript 3 is currently offering, we desperately need a way to integrate external 3D models into our flash work and there’s no way to do that with native actionScript right now.
Could this be intentional to save the head or Director?