ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

12. Delving Deeper into Graphics and Animation with ActionScript

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

• Use the inverse kinematics (IK) tools in Flash CS5.

• Use the IK classes in Flash CS5 to create advanced animation with ActionScript.

• Check whether users have a video camera or webcam available to their computers.

• Add sound effects to your animation.

• Access and display video from a webcam or connected camera using ActionScript.

• Create bitmap graphics with ActionScript.

• Take screen captures of Flash objects and save them as bitmap data.

• Examine the Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit.

• Work with filters in ActionScript.

• Use an external class file to load filters created in the Pixel Bender Toolkit.